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By Hole Ousia Posted on August 17, 2022August 17, 2022

No pure logic here

Poets [Spartans or otherwise] do not follow rules. The philosopher [following nobody] was heckled by the specialists for asking everyday questions. The world between us makes equals of us all: … Continue reading No pure logic here

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Classification of mental illness, Family history, Medical writings, Philosophy, Poems, PsychiatryTags: Antiquary, Hole Ousia, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, No Pure Logic here, poem, poet, poetry, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Two Cultures, Up the ANTI-, Were the Spartans really Spartan

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 26, 2022July 26, 2022

Go seek adventures

This question was asked in last week’s Sunday TIMES: Of course there is no complete data to refer to but it is thought that Don Quixote tops the list. It … Continue reading Go seek adventures

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Deeside Tales, Family history, gardens, Gilbert Farie, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, Royal Deeside, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 'bird-coop of the muses', 1967, a fallen monolith in a field, a modern ruin, A study in literature and Medicine, abandoned, Aberdeen, adventure, All the light we cannot see, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, AUDITIONS in PROGRESS, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, By living we learn, By yellow lights tormented, chemical imbalance, Class of 1988, Class of 1990, Corsewall lighthouse, courage to care, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, DOME, Don Quixote, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, ethics, Everything is growing in our garden, first do no harm, Flight of ideas, Friends of Liberty, friendship, from End to End, gate, gatekeeper, Gatekeeper [summer edition], gates, gateway, gentle gardener, George Orwell, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Girnoc, Girnock, go seek adventures, Gregory's Girl, Hale Bopp, He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, he said another three thousand pieces of nonsense, Hippocrates, hippocratic oath, Hole Ousia, Howards End, hunchback, I cannot be equal I am humbled, I emerge now carrying all my yeaRS, I emerge now carrying all my years on my back, I had a project as a small boy, I sing what I feel, Ian Collins, In the Middle, In the middle of the yew, Iron gate sensitivity, It is by living we learn, It was a dangerous time to be human to fell or to think or to care, keys cut here, Kilmadock, Language is the dwelling place of being, learning to love like this, legislators, lines with unfinished endings, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, lost, Lost Strathdon, Madame Bovary, Marginalia, Mary Midgley, miguel de cervantes, Modern Ruin, Mossgrove, my mind's full of things nobody else thinks about, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], Nineteen eighty-four, No more white coats, Novel, Nuillius in Verba, Oceania, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Paxil, Peter and Sian, Peter J Gordon, Peter's preoccupation with Wunderkammers, philosophy, poetry, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, Rachel Fiona Gordon, reality, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, sapere aude, Scottish Poetry Library, Seaton park, Seroxat, shimmerin, Sian Fiona Williams, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, something that could astonish an entire university no matter how learned, Sparta, Speak Memory, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, Temple of the Muses, the anatomy of emotion, The Antiquary, The Chemical Imbalance, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, the pollen count, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rules of Science, the sky is not little, The stories of a small glen, The Times, the two cultures, they marveled at his madness, through wastelands and crossroads, Tillybin, to be humbled, translation, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, two girls sing, versos de cabo rato, Vivendo Discimus, well is there anyone who isn't tangent, what a lot of things you've strung together willy-nilly, Which novel has sold most?, with heart as gentle for distress, Woodend Hospital, Wunderkammer

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 22, 2022July 24, 2022

Love me tender

Yesterday, the kindest of land owners took me more than a mile up the hill to Shielbrae. Year-after-year Shielbrae won every award for its Tups: Love me tender: To play … Continue reading Love me tender

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two cultures, UncategorizedTags: all my friends, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, archive, beneath the blue-arched sky, Bridge of Allan, Butchers, CaptainInternets, Cullens, feel, Fletcher, for one night only, From Scotland with Love, Hame, Hole Ousia, Hydropathic, Lawrence MacLaren, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, Love me tender, Margaret M Scott, memory, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Montaigne, Mossgrove, No more I Love you's, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, place, poem, poet, poet in a landscape, poetry, Queen of Scottish Spas, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, reminicence, Scotland, She gangs in brawness, shepherd, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Spa Magazine No. 1, such stravaiging need not be lonely, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 22, 2022July 22, 2022

Spa Magazine No. 1

Spa Magazine No.1: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Music credit: A cover of – All My Friends [LCD SoundSystem song] by CaptainInternets

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Delirium, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: all my friends, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, archive, beneath the blue-arched sky, Bridge of Allan, CaptainInternets, feel, for one night only, From Scotland with Love, graffiti bench, Hame, Hole Ousia, Hydropathic, I gathered those flowers of true being, language is leaving me, LCD Soundsystem, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, Margaret M Scott, memory, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Montaigne, Mossgrove, No more I Love you's, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, place, poem, poet, poet in a landscape, poetry, Queen of Scottish Spas, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, reminicence, Scotland, She gangs in brawness, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Spa Magazine No. 1, such stravaiging need not be lonely, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary

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