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Tag: creativity

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 27, 2019December 3, 2024

flight of ideas

“Flight of ideas” is a term considered by psychiatry to represent “pathology”. It is included in International diagnostic criteria for major mental illness. For many years now I have collected … Continue reading flight of ideas

Categories: Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: Alexander McCall Smith, borrowed words, creativity, Flight of ideas, Omphalos films, pathological lens
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 23, 2019December 3, 2024

And the artist . . .

Yesterday I met up with a musician in the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. But first of all I went to say hello to Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson. His bust was … Continue reading And the artist . . .

Categories: ScotlandTags: Alexander McCall Smith, creativity, Edinburgh, gardener, Portrait Gallery, Robert Louis Stevenson
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 31, 2019December 3, 2024

Slightly askew

photograph [taken today at the Forth Defences] words [a headline from one of today’s newspapers]

Categories: PhilosophyTags: creativity, graffiti, imagination, Rebel antiquary
By Hole Ousia Posted on February 14, 2019December 4, 2024

SHORT

Please do not worry about any shortage of ideas, reserve any worry [should you perhaps so worry] to ideas cut.

Categories: PoemsTags: creativity, Flight of ideas, ideas, Peter's poems, Rebel antiquary
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 18, 2018December 5, 2024

‘Kindness is the most important thing’

I made this omphatyp based on this interview with designer Anya Hindmarch in today’s Observer magazine

Categories: Philosophy, Two culturesTags: courage to care, creativity, kindness, sapere aude
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 28, 2017December 6, 2024

My mind is a garden of nature

These are ideas for films: ‘only in my mind’ the noo:

Categories: Poems, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: creativity, filmmaker, gentle gardener, ideas, Peter's poems

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