Keep wondering
Muses of a gardener growing auld. Keep wondering: To play this short film please click here or on the image above Filmed in Mossgrove garden in the Spring of 2021. … Continue reading Keep wondering
Tag: Kathleen Jamie
something already in the past
This wonderful photograph of a Chestnut tree in the South Downs featured in the Scotsman, 16 February 2021. I have superimposed onto this image the words of Kathleen Jamie from … Continue reading something already in the past
Revolutionary TIME [the language of MUSIC]
Setting: Henderson Street, Bridge of Allan Date: passing time Music: Gorillaz Street Performance of “Humility” With thanks to: Kathleen Jamie, Charles Dickens, Bernard MacLaverty, Marcel Proust and E M Forster … Continue reading Revolutionary TIME [the language of MUSIC]
Playfair brought light
The architect William Henry Playfair brought light to specimens in jars. More than two hundred years later so did Kathleen Jamie in her book FINDINGS. I was born in Edinburgh … Continue reading Playfair brought light
Scottish women writers who showed me the way
I have just ordered this book. I am so looking forward to reading it: Some of the women writers who have shown me the way, include: Kathleen Jamie [click on … Continue reading Scottish women writers who showed me the way
When Ian explained this to me
I recently read ‘S I G H T L I N E S’ by Kathleen Jamie. It is as wonderful as her ‘F I N D I N G S’. … Continue reading When Ian explained this to me
I imagined I could bring home something of the sky
SIGHTLINES, Kathleen Jamie: St Kilda [Are ever-constant in your changefulness]: St Kilda [Let the anchor go]: St Kilda [that’s entertainment]: St Kilda [is our island told in books?]: The quotes … Continue reading I imagined I could bring home something of the sky
sightlines
Scattered occasions from a day. *In our garden I have been reading Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie