‘live in fragments no longer’
This is a passage from ‘A room with a view’ by E M Forster. It returned my thoughts to an approach to life taken by my profession, psychiatry. My thoughts … Continue reading ‘live in fragments no longer’
Tag: light
Have I told you?
I can be forgetful.
dust
Only dust makes light visible, bringing colour to skies that are not little.
The light is unspeakably gorgeous
Neil Gunn to Nan Shepherd: Ted Hughes: Ali Smith (from ‘The Accidental’): The Muse: Robin Hyde:
Light and his life had become inseparable
This film is based on a Radio Scotland interview with Brian May and Professor Roger Taylor on the 15 August 2018. The host was Grant Stott. Taylor and May have … Continue reading Light and his life had become inseparable
Who taught you all that?
I was taught to “Defeat Depression”. I was taught that I was “objective”. The following are passages from Tomas Tranströmer and Albert Camus:
Silent as light
The Antiquary: “is preoccupied on every level by the relation between past and present.” Mary Midgley: “These doctrines are often bizarrely over-confident and over-simple” George Orwell in Why I Write: … Continue reading Silent as light
Shifting light, changing skies and sudden vistas
On the 11th June 2014 I received the above message from Alexander McCall Smith. You can perhaps imagine how this affected me. The Great Tapestry of Scotland. One of my … Continue reading Shifting light, changing skies and sudden vistas