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By Hole Ousia Posted on March 29, 2021

Coloured wrap

I came across this outdoor artwork by Liz West in yesterday’s Observer. The colours are wonderful!

Categories: gardens, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: 700 metres, Ali Smith, and colours are drama, Antiquary, Art, art installation, Arts, artwork, colour, coloured wrap, colours, Edmund de Waal, glass balustrades, Greenwich, Hole Ousia, Hotel World, hundreds and thousands, Imagine being a colour and a feeling, Julian Barnes, Liz West, March 2021, Metroland, observer, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The White Road, There's no blue like a Giotto blue, Tide peninsula walkway, watergaw, we were very sensitive about colours at the time, Winter

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 24, 2021

Who owns the land?

This image, as printed in Scotland on Sunday, 21 March 2021, returned my thoughts to the Cabrach, and a series of films that I made long ago:

Categories: Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1854, a modern ruin, A pocket book [found in Cabrach, a scurvy antiquary such as I am, a vulgar eloquence, abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen, actual or potential attitudes, actual or potential selves, Aldunie, Alexander McCall Smith, and feeling the only compass in life, Annalena McAfee, Antiquary, Architecture, Arts, Badly Drawn Boy, bank, beautiful summer, between the scavenger and the philosopher, Blackwater Lodge, Blackwater Shooting Lodge, body, brain, Buck, Built on the Clyde, Bundle and Go, Bursary, Cabrach, Cabrach Post Office, Cabrach Shooting lodge, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Can you unfeel that, Centenarian, Correction Wynd, Craighall castle, cut-in-half, Dauch, death, dialect, Distance and Memory, Distant Sky, divide, divides, Doric, duthchas, Easy Love, family history, farm, Fascaray, films on the Cabrach, Flight of ideas, For truly she is Nature's gentlewoman, frae weans to auld wans, Gaelic, Gamekeeper, gate, gateway, Gauch, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Gordon bursary, gripped by an intense nostalgia for the present, hairt, Hale Bopp, Hame, he had loved maps since he was a boy, heart, history lessons - we had been taught the big facts not the minor, Hole Ousia, Home for little children, I am part of all that I have met, I was free I was affronted by freedom, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian McEwan, If there could be a name, Intensely Local, island, It is by living we learn, James Law, James Ross, Little Sparta, Lordism, Lordism impoverishes the land, magpie, Mary Law, mind, Modern Ruin, Morbus Fascariensis, mountains, murder, My notebook will be better than a doctor, Nan Shepherd, objective, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Ou Phrontis, Paget's disease, Patrick Geddes, Peter and Sian, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon found a pocketbook, Peter Gordon Law, Peter J Gordon, Piano Theme, poet in a landscape, poetry and identity, Poor Old Love, Poor Old Tired Horse, post office, postmistress, Prospects bright for 'Twelfth', Queen Victoria, rainbow, rebel antiquary, Rhynie, Robert Gordon, ruin, ruins, Science, Scotland, Scots, She gangs in brawness, Shenval, shooting, Sian Fiona Williams, Silver darling, Social maverick, St Peter's Seminary, Straloch, subjective, The Antiquary, The Blossoms, The Cabrach Tragedy, the outdoors brought a sense of proportion, the places that loom large in our lives, The present order is the disorder of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The stories of a small glen, there really was no hurry. I was going nowhere. Nowhere but here, These are the hands, This is not yesterday, to be humbled, Two Cultures, un-scottish style, Vivendo Discimus, watergaw, we have no record of the poet's reaction when he opened the door, Wind farm, write about love, writer, writers, WWI, your far dispatches bring remoteness nea

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 25, 2020December 25, 2020

Gratitude

In yesterday’s Scotsman, Alexander Mccall Smith wrote about the importance of gratitude. He said that gratitude needs to be expressed. McCall Smith shared one of his poems: a poem of … Continue reading Gratitude

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, Two culturesTags: 2020, a show of gratitude is so important, Alexander McCall Smith, Antiquary, Arts, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid19, Edinburgh, gratitude, gratitude needs to be expressed, Healing, Hoel Ousia, humanity, immunologist, music, NHS, pandemic, poem, poet, poetry, Science, Scientists, Scotland, Scotsman, social distancing, social isolation, Social maverick, symphony, The Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, vaccine, vorologist

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 20, 2020

‘ART does not EXIST’

This student workbook reminded me of the scrapbooks of Edwin Morgan.

Categories: Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, Two culturesTags: Art, Art does not exist, Arts, Beyond the last Dragon, Commonplace book, Edwin Morgan, Glasgow, Hole Ousia, humanities, Ian Crichton Smith, In the snack bar, keep everyone afraid and people will consume, Little Sparta, Machar, Makar, Marginalia, notebook, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, quotes, Rare Species, rebel antiquary, Science, Scotland, scrapbook, scrapbooks, Scribbles, Social maverick, student, The Midnight Letterbox, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, we shall shine in a story that's never been told, What is art?

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