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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2020July 30, 2020

She understood

[the full context of this quote can be found in The Quarry Wood]

Categories: Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1881, 1893, A life of Nan Shepherd, a loving observer, Aberdeen, all categories are absurd where art is concerned, Anna Shepherd, Antiquary, Arory-bory-Alice., artist, Aunt Josephine, Aunt Josephine Leggatt, aurora borealis, Bear hunt, becoming, being, Blacktop, boundaries, By living we learn, byordinar clever, cairn, Cairngorms, Charlotte peacock, children, Class of 1988, Class of 1990, Comet, comet seekers, Comets, Commonplace book, cosmic, cosmic light, dance, dancing, Deeside, Dunvegan, dykes, Elective, England, Eric Redmond, Eternity, Gamrie, gardener, Gardenstown, gate, gatekeepeer, gateway, gateway to the Highlands, Gleanings, going on a bear hunt, Hale Bopp, he walked out through the entrance gate, Hidden Doors, Hole Ousia, how many gateways revisited, I like this place, Intensely Local, Into the Mountain, It is by living we learn, J Arthur Thompson, John Berger, John Macmurray, King’s College, Left-behind gateway, Loch Avon, man does not learn from books alone, map-maker, Martha, Medley book, Merleau-Ponty, mountains, moved the sun in all the heaven, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn, new views of Comets, Northern Lights, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Oor big braw cosmos, painting, Patrick Geddes, Peter John Gordon, philosopher, poem, poet, poetry, Professor Gregory, Rachel Fiona Gordon, read in her eye, rebel antiquary, rising sun, river Dee, Robert Macfarlane, Rock, Scotland, Scottish women writers, scrawled on gateposts, seedlings, she kicked her grand-aunt Josephine, she seems to have lived with a great but quiet gusto, she understood, she understood that a graduate may be ignorant, she's byordinar clever, Sian Fiona Williams, singing over stone, sky, stars, stones, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, symbolic, symbolic gateways haunt Nan Shepherd's work, symbolism, The Antiquary, The Comet Seekers, The living mountain, The Quarry Wood, The Rebel Antiquary, the sky belongs to us all, the sky is making a new proposition to the earth, the sky is not little, There's such a lot of sky about here, to be humbled, Two Girls Singing, Uganda, unknowableness, we must learn from these women, we stole milk from the cosmos and survived, West Cults, where Martha played, William Philip, writer, writers, you're like a lovely day in the hills

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northern lights
Tommy Bryce
an obituary
Sinclair’s Bay
Glen Elg
Empty libraries
A gifted pioneer
Arborglyphs
In a time before social media influencers
‘Young lady take charge’
Gunner Hope
TRIO
A wing and a prayer
1972: A design for Bannockburn Heritage Centre
‘Vintage note’
Fossil fuel
PIPE Lane
A statue on the north bank of the Clyde
of absence and presence
K13
To call a spade a spade
‘There’s this shadow beside him in the painting’
Published
Glenfruin School house
EPHEMERON [Fig. I]
Dare to be Wise
Farewell
Spelled out in graffiti
Mum’s the word
‘Change is coming’
‘Martin Laird doesn’t do social media’
In the language of Angels
The Crew Ship COLUMBO
Fashion Show
Letters to his gardener
The Owl Man
revolutionary TIME [the language of MUSIC]
the STREET
By late afternoon
Vecchia Bologna
The Well Hoose
Roseneath Peninsula
Rare Species
enablers
BRITAIN’S SIBERIA
Lady Stair’s garden
Where are the notes between the notes?
Thought to be in two places at once
The imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space
umbrellas
Playfair brought light
two poems
EDINburgh ARTS festIVAL
Hospitalfield
Mapping an obsession
K I W A N U K A
Methven Simpson
UPROOTED
We are the Change-Makers
The Dug-Out
Cabbages in an Orchard
bows out
PERMIT to ENTER
Time Passes. Listen. Time Passes
Garden gnomes were heard to shout!
Market instability
Isolation and sleep
Playfair
The only epitaph
black
‘GOOD SPECTACLES’
The beginning of wisdom
REVEL
Full page advert in the BMJ
infinity
reality
the answer
‘Operator’
First do no harm
Ninian’s Gift
Dunblane Cathedral reopens
Don’t let yourself go hungry now
an easier reality
Sunset ower the river Tweed
Afa big wardrobe
‘Another me exists and is wandering loose out in the world’
The gardener of Finca Vigia
“Mother, I’ve seen an angel”
María of My Heart
Passing through walls hurts human beings, they get sick from it
From family he passed to science
taking steps [old and new]
Perhaps I was history itself
a short break in the Borders
A new mural in Glasgow
‘Battle for the Wallace Monument’
Diana Rigg
406 million miles from Earth
the scandal of the century [and other writings]
Full of Energy
Hole Ousia [no longer the same]
Last Monday
The inscriber ran out of room
‘WE AL MUST PAS’
STOBS
19th August 2020
THERE’S MORE
HOME and AWAY
The Ormiston Yew
‘Thanks, friend’
“As It Is, and as It Is To Be”
Can you hear the bumblebees swarm?
In the middle of the Yew
THE SHOP FOR KEEN BUYERS
1929
Hunchback skeleton find
Advertising for Hunchbacks
“Might be seen as . . .”
Only one copy found a purchaser
broken
Perennial in its freshness
BUMP-TIOUS SCIENCE
SHELL petrol: “like a beautiful woman”
“relieves fatigue, aids digestion”
Would you Adam and Eve it?
everyday-in-betweens
Professor Cairo
‘The scientific attitude’
A most ancient place
Prussic Acid
Queen Mary’s Thorn Tree
a letter-carrier
Keep Digging
this film has had ten views
LXVI.8.
‘PLASTOMETER’
Centenarian who could speak seven languages
L. N. E. R. excursions
“A fantastic space for the community and visitors”
BE BRIEF
‘Pink Pills for Pale People’
NOTICE of REMOVAL
M a r a n t z
Yesterday was Tuesday
sanctum
Mr. SELL
‘We’ve really missed you’
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