Email: Grandad’s 80th birthday. Loves art, music, books. (US)

Happy Birthday!

161 inspired & inspiring minds – novelists, poets, painters, photographers, musicians & mathematicians describe how they subtly manoeuvre their daily rituals to finish the work they love to do. Waking up early or staying up late, doughnuts or drinking coffee, long walks in nature.

Anthony Trollope wrote 3000 words before going to his postal service job, each day. George Balanchine did most of his imaginative work while ironing. Daily rituals of great artists, philosophers & scientists like Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, Benjamin Franklin, Jane Austen, Albert Einstein, Igor Stravinsky (couldn’t compose unless sure no one could hear). Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. Fascinating facts & insights into their creative thinking process. Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Find Inspiration, Get To Work.

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Email: Sister’s 75th birthday. Loves the village, travel. (Canada)

Happy Birthday!

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A humble note to inform a short pause in new posts.

India Covid-19: Please donate for oxygen concentrators

Thanks, appreciated.

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Through a carefully curated selection of quotes, images & interviews, Photographers On Photography reveals what matters most to the 50 masters of photography. Henry Carroll discovers how the giants of the genre develop their distinctive visual styles, passion & core ideas. Inspires our own photographic process & helps determine what photography means to us. Beautiful.

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Email: Sister’s 60th birthday. Loves art, summer time. (US)

Happy Birthday!

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Email: Partner’s 65th birthday. Loves flowers, art. (Australia)

Happy Birthday!

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Email: 15th wedding anniversary. Love flowers, travel. (Portugal)

Happy Anniversary!

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11:00 AM – Men stood shoulder to shoulder in blazing 45 degrees heat, chests leaned against empty oxygen cylinders lodged in dirt. They walked miles from villages to a makeshift city centre to re-fill empty oxygen cylinders, in a desperate bid to save their loved ones. Oxygen has become the most precious commodity in a pandemic-stricken nation. A huge clamour for something so elemental to life.

Please donate for oxygen concentrators

Police guard what little supply is available. Despair is spiralling across India as demand for oxygen far out-paces availability. Each day, hundreds of thousands are becoming infected with COVID-19. Crisis is marked by a shortage of masks & medicines with devastating consequences. Patients are suffocating to death in hospitals with empty tanks. Many are paying the equivalent of several months salary to buy oxygen cylinders.

Military airlifts oxygen supplies, sending tons on trains dubbed the ‘Oxygen Express‘. Still, oxygen remains scarce. Please donate to help alleviate the inequities in access to oxygen.

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Email: Partner’s birthday. Loves modern art, flowers. (Sweden)

Happy Birthday!

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Email: Son’s at an engineering college. Recommend a motivational read? (India)

Congratulations. If hygge is the art of doing nothing, ikigai is the art of doing something & doing it with supreme focus & joy. A beautiful guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai.

As per the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai – a reason for being. Finding it is the key to a happier life. A strong sense of ikigai – a place where passion, mission, vocation & profession intersect.

Amazing interviews of 100 year olds. Ikigai reveals reasons for their longevity & happiness – how they eat, move & work? How they foster collaboration & community? And, their best kept secret – how they find their ikigai for fulfilment & happiness? Offers practical tools to help discover our own ikigai. An incredibly inspiring read.

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