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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 January 23, 2021

‘Digital Bullies’

I have made this piece of artwork [an omphatyp’] using coloured overlays and distortions of the text found in this essay in today’s TIMES:

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: a new set of values which underpin all that we do, Antiquary, College Core values, core values, Digital bullies, divides, Hole Ousia, January 2021, nastiness, Omphatyp, polarisation, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, social media, Tech Giants, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Times, twitter, Values Matter in the Digital Space as in Everyday Life, war of words, weekend essay, what is the point of all this nastiness

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2021

‘That kind of anger is a giveaway’

This passage from ‘Stories We Tell Ourselves’ by Richard Holloway reminded me of writings and research into certainty and medical decison making:

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Psychiatry, StigmaTags: Allan Beveridge, Antiquary, biomedical determinism, BJPsych, British Journal of Psychiatry, certainty, Certainty effect, core values for psychiatrists, correlates of certainty, defensiveness, divides, Doctor's use of social media, Dr Allan Beveridge, final truth, first do no harm, he wonders how we managed to bring this purely objective self into existence, Hole Ousia, institution, making meaning in a meaningless universe, Maudsley, measurement, objectivity, over-certainty, polarisation, Psychiatry, RCPsych, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Social maverick, Stories we tell ourselves, subjective-objective divide, subjectivity, that kind of anger, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the subjective-objective divide, Time to abandon, what is the point of all this nastiness, whose subjectivity was being studied

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 1, 2020

black

I hate divides. I seek gateways and shared umbrellas.

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: black, divide, divides, gateway to Saturdays, gateway to the Highlands, Hole Ousia, how many gateways revisited, i never wear white, Left-behind gateway, Omphalos, Omphlaos films, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, Suzanne Vega, symbolic gateways haunt Nan Shepherd's work, The Rebel Antiquary

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