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By Hole Ousia Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021

Poetry and music together

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 2014, 23 January 2021, 464A ALLELE 12, a feeling of being suspended between the sky and the sea, A hopeless case, A L Kennedy, A person has to be transcendent somewhere, Ageing is Truth, Ageing stone, Amalfi, Andrew Robert Gordon, Anthony Doeer, Antiquary, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, beautiful summer, Belle and Sebastian, between the scavenger and the philosopher, both personal and communal, Bridge of Allan, Casulaties, Charlotte's cave, Cimbrone, Clackmannan, Deborah Levy, Dunkeld, Edinburgh marathon, Edmund de Waal, essay, essays, essays can help us learn a new means of being together, Family films, Feature, Features, films for Sian, Fugitive from Girgenti, Gail Low, gardens, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Green grow the rashes 'o, Gregory's Girl, Hale Bopp, Hanya Yaanagihara, Hartshaw Mill, Haughhead., He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, Hole Ousia, humanities, Imagine being a colour and a feeling, IMAGINED SPACES, In the Middle, Innerpeffray, Innerpeffray Library, January 2021, Kalemouth Suspension Bridge, Kirsty Gunn, Lecropt, Library, Lismore, Little Sparta, lost, Lost (remastered), love, Medical Humanties, medicine, Mossgrove, Musselburgh, No more white coats, now that social media has reduced so much of public discource to little more than point-scoring, nuces philosophicae, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one hundred and thirty years, Paestum, pandemic, Part of, Perth, Peter and Sian, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Poetry and music come together, Poetry and music come together as one creative expression, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rationalisation, Ravello, rebel antiquary, Roddy Woomble, ruins, Scotsman, Scottish Cup, Seeds in the wind, She said nothing and she shone, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, social media, something of the sky, Somewhere on the other side of the afternoon’s horizon, St John's, St Johnstone, Strathearn, That small place in the whole of time, The Ageing Stone, the anatomy of emotion, The Antiquary, The Beautiful Summer, the beginning of wisdom, The Fair Maid of Perth, the Great Garden, The manner of what we make defines us, The Medicine is in Aberdeen, The North and South Inches, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, the wedding of Peter and Sian, This is not yesterday, Together we are an endless conversation, twitter, Two Cultures, Walter Scott, we stopped listening and kept on leaping, Wedding, what was it you saw, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, when you say I like biscuits, Windsor gardens, wrapped up in books, You are my world

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021

IMAGINED SPACES

In an essay published in the Scotsman [23 January 2021] Gail Low and Kirsty Gunn shared some thoughts:

Categories: Philosophy, Two culturesTags: 23 January 2021, Antiquary, both personal and communal, essay, essays, essays can help us learn a new means of being together, Feature, Features, Gail Low, Hole Ousia, humanities, IMAGINED SPACES, January 2021, Kirsty Gunn, Medical Humanties, now that social media has reduced so much of public discource to little more than point-scoring, Peter Gordon, rationalisation, rebel antiquary, Scotsman, Social maverick, social media, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, twitter, Two Cultures

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?

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 9, 2020November 9, 2020

of Sapiens

As featured in the Observer, Sunday 8 November 2020

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, Hole Ousia, humanities, observer, Of Sapiens, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Science, Social maverick, storytelling, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, why science needs storytellers, Yuval Noah Harari

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