being and becoming in the world
The words of: A S Byatt, Anne Tyler, Anthony Doerr, Candia McWilliam, Evelyn Waugh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gabriel García Márquez, Janice Galloway, John Macmurray, Julian Barnes, Margaret Drabble, Penelope Fitzgerald, Raymond … Continue reading Some lessons
Julian Barnes once said: “if being on the level doesn’t shield you from pain, maybe it is better to be up in the clouds”. VERTIGO: To play this short film … Continue reading VERTIGO
This is a short film that explores the common ground between a gardener and a doctor. It was inspired by hearing Dr Gavin Francis talk about the need for us … Continue reading A faded green book of history
From ‘The Noise of Time’ by Julian Barnes.
This film is about the gardens of Gartshore House, near Kirkintilloch. Gartshore was owned by the Whitelaw family. Gartshore House was demolished in 1955. Gartshore Garden Party: To play this … Continue reading Gartshore Garden Party
At Upper Lanrick farm there was a busy sawmill, but neither the farm ‘toun’ nor the sawmill have been active for at least a generation. Abandoned, their days are now … Continue reading a circle with teeth
I regularly read the BMJ Rapid Responses and find them to provide opportunities to learn and often to challenge any existing understandings that I may have established. The following response … Continue reading Hubris and the medical profession
This perspective in the current BMJ seems important to me. The author, Matt Morgan begins: “If ‘I love you’ are the three most important words in life, then ‘I don’t … Continue reading “Those three little words”