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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 26, 2022July 26, 2022

Go seek adventures

This question was asked in last week’s Sunday TIMES: Of course there is no complete data to refer to but it is thought that Don Quixote tops the list. It … Continue reading Go seek adventures

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Deeside Tales, Family history, gardens, Gilbert Farie, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, Royal Deeside, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 'bird-coop of the muses', 1967, a fallen monolith in a field, a modern ruin, A study in literature and Medicine, abandoned, Aberdeen, adventure, All the light we cannot see, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, AUDITIONS in PROGRESS, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, By living we learn, By yellow lights tormented, chemical imbalance, Class of 1988, Class of 1990, Corsewall lighthouse, courage to care, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, DOME, Don Quixote, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, ethics, Everything is growing in our garden, first do no harm, Flight of ideas, Friends of Liberty, friendship, from End to End, gate, gatekeeper, Gatekeeper [summer edition], gates, gateway, gentle gardener, George Orwell, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Girnoc, Girnock, go seek adventures, Gregory's Girl, Hale Bopp, He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, he said another three thousand pieces of nonsense, Hippocrates, hippocratic oath, Hole Ousia, Howards End, hunchback, I cannot be equal I am humbled, I emerge now carrying all my yeaRS, I emerge now carrying all my years on my back, I had a project as a small boy, I sing what I feel, Ian Collins, In the Middle, In the middle of the yew, Iron gate sensitivity, It is by living we learn, It was a dangerous time to be human to fell or to think or to care, keys cut here, Kilmadock, Language is the dwelling place of being, learning to love like this, legislators, lines with unfinished endings, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, lost, Lost Strathdon, Madame Bovary, Marginalia, Mary Midgley, miguel de cervantes, Modern Ruin, Mossgrove, my mind's full of things nobody else thinks about, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], Nineteen eighty-four, No more white coats, Novel, Nuillius in Verba, Oceania, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Paxil, Peter and Sian, Peter J Gordon, Peter's preoccupation with Wunderkammers, philosophy, poetry, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, Rachel Fiona Gordon, reality, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, sapere aude, Scottish Poetry Library, Seaton park, Seroxat, shimmerin, Sian Fiona Williams, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, something that could astonish an entire university no matter how learned, Sparta, Speak Memory, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, Temple of the Muses, the anatomy of emotion, The Antiquary, The Chemical Imbalance, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, the pollen count, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rules of Science, the sky is not little, The stories of a small glen, The Times, the two cultures, they marveled at his madness, through wastelands and crossroads, Tillybin, to be humbled, translation, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, two girls sing, versos de cabo rato, Vivendo Discimus, well is there anyone who isn't tangent, what a lot of things you've strung together willy-nilly, Which novel has sold most?, with heart as gentle for distress, Woodend Hospital, Wunderkammer

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 26, 2021November 26, 2021

Trees: age and beauty do go together

Some of Peter’s short films on famous trees [please click on each image to play a different film]. In the middle of the yew [The Ormiston yew tree]: Oor auldest … Continue reading Trees: age and beauty do go together

Categories: gardens, PhilosophyTags: age and beauty do go together, Antiquary, Brig O' Turk, By living we learn, Chestnut tree, embodied, Fortingal Yew, Fortingall Yew, gentle gardener, Goodnestone, he practises medicine and plants trees, headless, Hole Ousia, Inchbrakie, It is by living we learn, Little Gidding, longevity, Merleau-Ponty, Mulberry, Omphalos, Omphalos films, oor auldest relative, our oldest relative, Patrick Geddes, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, rooted, Social maverick, standing ovation, T S Eliot, The Antiquary, The bicycle tree, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, Tree, trees, Trossachs, Vivendo Discimus, Yew, Yew tree

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 19, 2021

A short story of a long life

It was lovely to see Mavisbank featured in the BBC production ‘Scotland from the sky’. The aerial footage revealed the wow! Without Mavisbank I would not have met so many … Continue reading A short story of a long life

Categories: Architecture, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A short story of a long life, Antiquary, Architecture, BBC, By living we learn, Edinburgh, Hole Ousia, It is by living we learn, James Crawford, Mavisbank, Omphalos, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland from the sky, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Vivendo Discimus

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 15, 2021November 15, 2021

“Perceived”

Presented with uncertain symptoms the doctor, a diligent scientist, checked every bit of data that had ever been established: evidence-based and randomised controlled. This empathic doctor [a natural worrier] re-checked … Continue reading “Perceived”

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, PsychiatryTags: “Perceived”, By living we learn, Guidelines are not Tramlines, Hole Ousia, It is by living we learn, Patrick Geddes, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Prescribed harm, Psychiatry, Randomised Controlled Trial, RCT, subjective-objective divide, Vivendo Discimus

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