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By Hole Ousia Posted on August 4, 2021March 10, 2023

Go North!

This film, based upon the 1908 ‘Scottish National Exhibition’, seeks to celebrate our experience of life through the passing of TIME. Go North! To play this short film please click … Continue reading Go North!

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1908, 1908 Scottish National Exhibition, ageing, Ageing stone, Antiquary, Bridge of Allan, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, Films about Edinburgh, From Scotland with Love, Go North, Hole Ousia, James Georgeson, Joan Bakewell, Joan Bakewell with Richard Holloway: Moving On, John Berger, Leaving Alexandria, moving on, performed live on his 81st birthday for Tiny Desk Home concerts, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, Saughton, Scotland, Scottish National Exhibition, Social maverick, Sylvia Plath, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Scottish National Exhibition, The Ticking of Two Clocks, this film eeks to celebrate our experience of life through the passing of TIME, This film is for Joan Bakewel, time passes listen, Tiny Desk Concerts, Tom Jones, Waiting for the last bus

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 2, 2021March 10, 2023

Moving on

I am looking forward to this Edinburgh International Book Festival event with Joan Bakewell and Richard Holloway. It is being held on Sunday 15 August, 2021, between 10 and 11am. … Continue reading Moving on

Categories: Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 15 August 2021, 2021, 2021 Edinburgh International Book Festival, A Treatise on Clocks by Lord Grimthorpe, ageing, And may God concede that you grow old either never or late, and may it be granted that the older you are, Antiquary, book, Book Festival, challenges, Concedatque Deus, Concedatque Deus (Mavisbank), Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh International Book Festival, fascinated by the joys and challenges of ageing, Godless Morality, Hole Ousia, How we regard and make use of this windfall of elders will define the world in which we live, Joan Bakewell, Joan Bakewell with Richard Holloway: Moving On, joys, Leaving Alexandria, making meaning in a meaningless universe, moving on, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, Social maverick, Stories we tell ourselves, The Ageing Stone, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Tick of Two Clocks, time passes listen, to leave her home of more than fifty years and to take on a more manageable flat, Waiting for the last bus

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020March 6, 2023

For my mum and dad

Please click on each image to play each short film on Edinburgh. These films are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, 1904, 1908, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Abbotsford, ageing, Ageing stone, air-raid shelter, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, Baudolino, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Bridge of Allan, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Carubber's Manse, Castlebank Laundry, Charlotte Square, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christopher Lloyd, Cities in Evolution, Colinton, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, Craigmillar Laundry, Damon 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Social maverick, Spurtle, St Andrew Square, St Andrew's House, St Andrew's Square, St Leonard's Improvement Scheme, statue, steam laundry, Stockbridge, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Sylvia Plath, Tapestry of Scotland, The Antiquary, the black lady, The BMJ, The cost of living, The friends of liberty, the gate of Angels, The Great Tapestry of Scotland, the laundry problem, The making of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The Royal Patent Gymnasium, the scandal of the century, The Scottish National Exhibition, the texture of time, The Ticking of Two Clocks, The wall, the warld's ill-divided, The well tempered garden, Theatre, These films are for my mum and dad, This plethora of detail, thistle, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, time passes listen, Tiny Desk Concerts, Tom Jones, Tomb of the Red lady, Traditionalism: Edinburgh's dilemma, Umberto Eco, Vivendo Discimus, Vladimir Nabokov, Waiting for the last bus, Walter Scott, Warriston Cemetery, Waverley, weather bomb, Well tempered Garden, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh, [in its ending] Scotland Street Station

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 18, 2014January 15, 2023

Suppose I Lose It

I enjoy listening to radio 4. It has become a most enjoyable habit as I get older: going to bed and listening to the world presented in full variety. A … Continue reading Suppose I Lose It

Categories: Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Philosophy, Screening, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A patchwork Planet, Ageing stone, Alzheimer's, Alzheimerisation, Alzheimerisation of society, Anne Tyler, Antiquary, BBC Radio 4, bio-markers, boundaries between ageing and disease, Dementia, Dr Peter Gordon, early diagnosis is everywhere, fear, HEAT taergt 4, Hole Ousia, incentivised target, incentivised target for the early diagnosis of dementia, It is by living we learn, Joan Bakewell, most of the things we do are driven by fear, My worry is that the boundaries between ageing and disease rest more upon cultural sands than on solid scientific foundation, parabolic pattern, patchwork planet, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, reductionism, Scotland's approach to dementia diagnosis, Scottish Government, Social maverick, stigma, Suppose I lose it, The Ageing Stone, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, time passes listen, Vivendo Discimus, we still lack reliable bio-markers, why ethics matter, why ethics matters to us all

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