09/05/2026
Happy birthday to Sir David Attenborough who turned 100 yesterday 🎉 and thank you for your wonderful work 🐘🐅
David Attenborough collaborated with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin on the 1963 BBC documentary 'Yehudi Menuhin and his Guru". His guru was B.K.S. Iyengar who also appeared on the show 🙏
The three appear above in a BBC still which also featured on the front cover of our Dipika magazine 2023 for the article 'Rediscovering B.K.S. Iyengar on the BBC after Sixty Years' by Simon Crisp.
Dipika editor:
Picture still:
01/05/2026
Hanging around on my phone again
21/03/2026
Stillness is vital to the world of the soul. If as you age you become more still, you will discover that stillness can be a great companion. The fragments of your life will have time to unify, and the places where your soul-shelter is wounded or broken will have time to knit and heal. You will be able to return to yourself. In this stillness, you will engage your soul. Many people miss out on themselves completely as they journey through life. They know others, they know places, they know skills, they know their work, but tragically, they do not know themselves at all. Aging can be a lovely time of ripening when you actually meet yourself, indeed maybe for the first time. There are beautiful lines from T. S. Eliot that say:
'And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.'
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Excerpt from the book, Anam Cara,
25th Anniversary Edition.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara
County Kerry, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill
09/02/2026
Love this. So much emphasis on the venue and the ambiance these days. It’s the inner ambiance needing cultivating more so than the outer, surely ….
❤️🌺