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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 10, 2021

Artificial light [and psychiatry]

At the end of 2019 the sodium street lamps in our street were updated and the light changed from sodium yellow to electric white. As odd as this may sound, … Continue reading Artificial light [and psychiatry]

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: Albert Camus, Anton Chekhov, artificial, Artificial light [and psychiatry], BJPsych, British Journal of Psychiatry, Deborah Levy, doctor, Dr Peter J Gordon, Eliot Slater, Iain Crichton Smith, Jessie Burton, Julian Barnes, light, Lolita, Metroland, My formal instruction of resignation as a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, neon, poet, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Psychiatry, sodium, streetlamps, streetlight, The cost of living, The High Mountains of Portugal, The Muse, The Plague, Two Girls Singing, Vladimir Nabakov, William Carlos Williams, Yann Martel, yellow

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 13, 2021May 13, 2021

‘On My Radar’

In last week’s Sunday Observer, the actress Fiona Shaw, explained why George Saunder’s latest book is on her ‘radar’: I agree with Fiona Shaw, ‘A Swim in the Pond in … Continue reading ‘On My Radar’

Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, Behind the graph lie a million stories, Fiona Shaw, George Saunders, Hole Ousia, in which four Russians give a master class, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, life, making meaning in a meaningless universe, meaning doesn't exist unless you look for it, Nikolai Gogol, of every-story-that-could possibly-be, On my radar, Reading, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, short stories, Social maverick, stories, stories we hear and stories we tell, Stories we tell ourselves, story, story telling, Sunday Observer, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, What do you care about in this story, why select just a certain few stories to define yourself, writing

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Outside medicine he was a keen gardener

A few years ago I spent a week exploring Scottish gardens that had been tended by a namesake – Peter Gordon, ‘Jobbing Gardener, Forres’. I had considered that, despite having … Continue reading Outside medicine he was a keen gardener

Categories: Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1841 census, 1851 census, 1861 census, 1871 census, 1881 census, 2021 census, 2022 census, 4.04, 6.26, A child’s garden of verses, a gardener is always a futurist, A L Kennedy, a roadside garden, a whole garden made out of love, Abergeldie, Abergeldie castle, Alexander Gordon, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander Morrison Gordon, Alexander Theodore Gordon, All the light we cannot see, Altyre, Andrew Robert Gordon, Anthony Doeer, Antiquary Gardens, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Forbes Gordon, auld gardener, Bend Sinister, bog, Bogg, Bovaglie, Bridge of Allan, Calderwood, Camlet, Castle Semple, Castle Semple Country Park, census, Collairniehill, Constant Gardener, Coronavirus, Cothall, Covid-19, Craigroy, D.4.12, Deborah Levy, Decline and Fall, delightful regions, Dr Peter Gordon, Earlshall, Edinburgh, Elizabeth Packman, Ella Rae, Euphemia Ferguson, Fife, fifty years a gardener, Five Plays, Folk worth talking about, Forres, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, garden, gardener, Gardener's assistant, gardens, Gardens of the Mind, gentle gardener, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Girnoc, Girnock, Glasgow School of Art, Hale Bopp, Harmony Gardens, Head gardener, Healing landscape, High Street, Highland Agricultural Society, Hill of Ballunie, Hodgson Burnett, Hole Ousia, Hot Milk, Huntly Street, I wonder whether you have narcissistic tendencies, In search of lost time, Innovation School, Insch, Jessie Burton, John Gordon, Julian Barnes, Kenmure hill, Kettins, Kilbride, label, labeling, Landscape Architect, Landscape Architecture, Lemon Table, letter, Lochwinnoch, Lockdown, Looking through glass, Marcel Proust, Mausoleum, Memory Lane, MLA distinction, Mossgrove, Mukul Kesavan, Newton House, Newton walled garden, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Outside medicine he was a keen gardener, Pale Fire, pandemic, Paul Pennyfeather, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Peter Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Rachel Gordon, Rafford, Rayne, Royal Botanic Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens, ruin, ruins, Rupi Kaur, scholarly gardener remembered, Scotland, Scottish Census 2022, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish elections 2021, secret garden, senseless census, Serious Sweet, shepherd, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, Standing stone, Station Hotel, Stobo, story, story telling, story-teller, Temple, Templeland, The Camlet, the garden moved in the breeze, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, The Giant's Garden, The lemon Table, The Muse, The Secret Garden, The stories of a small glen, the sun and her flowers, The Temple, The well tempered garden, there really was no hurry. I was going nowhere. Nowhere but here, this gifted gardener I discovered by chance, Tillybin, to be humbled, Tobago, University of Edinburgh, Valerie Stewart, Vladimir Nabokov, walled garden, Warthill, Warthill House, Warthill of Bog, when this place was a a garden - one endless garden from end to end

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

What do you care about in this story, so far?

I have been reading A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In this lovely book George Saunders helps us explore the short stories of four Russians masters. Here I … Continue reading What do you care about in this story, so far?

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, Behind the graph lie a million stories, George Saunders, Hole Ousia, in which four Russians give a master class, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, life, making meaning in a meaningless universe, meaning doesn't exist unless you look for it, Nikolai Gogol, of every-story-that-could possibly-be, Reading, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, short stories, Social maverick, stories, stories we hear and stories we tell, Stories we tell ourselves, story, story telling, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, What do you care about in this story, why select just a certain few stories to define yourself, writing

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