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Tag: feeling

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 23, 2019December 2, 2024

They felt

This film is carried by a recent conversation between Roddy Doyle and Antony Gormley. They felt: To play this short film please click here or on the image above The … Continue reading They felt

Categories: Omphalos filmsTags: Antony Gormley, artists, feeling, Hale Bopp, Omphalos films
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 3, 2019December 3, 2024

Feel

Lists are just lists [and this is a list] Tools are just tools Words are just words Numbers just numbers. Time [might this be experience] has passed. This poem, a … Continue reading Feel

Categories: Medical humanities, PoemsTags: feeling, Peter's poems
By Hole Ousia Posted on February 21, 2019December 4, 2024

Some say

I recall a round-table discussion of many years ago between senior NHS doctors and senior NHS managers. I offered a philosophical perspective on ageing and memory but was interrupted by … Continue reading Some say

Categories: Medical humanities, PsychiatryTags: Dr Peter Gordon, feeling, sensitivity, subjective-objective divide
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 25, 2018December 5, 2024

Filling the world with meaning

Yesterday, a friend of mine shared this poem by Norman MacCaig. My friend, a healthcare professional, articulated concern that professionalism, with all the dictats, protocols and algorithms that now “guide” us, … Continue reading Filling the world with meaning

Categories: Medical humanities, PoemsTags: emotions, feeling, John MacMurray, Mary Midgley, poems, Raymond Tallis, sensitivity
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 12, 2018December 5, 2024

To speak our life as we feel it is a freedom

‘The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy’s latest “living autobiography”, I found rather special.  

Categories: Two culturesTags: borrowed words, Deborah Levy, feeling, quotes, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 26, 2016December 7, 2024

The light changed

                    He wore his life on his skin: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. … Continue reading The light changed

Categories: Omphalos films, Two culturesTags: borrowed words, feeling, Hanya Yanagihara, he cannot unlearn the feeling, Omphalos films, quotes, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 10, 2016December 7, 2024

[and then there is feel]

I need ethics because I am on my own. I can only see with my own eyes. I try to shift my stance. I do not always see what others … Continue reading [and then there is feel]

Categories: PoemsTags: ethics, feeling, Peter's poems

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