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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 12, 2021May 12, 2021

SCIENCE

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, NHS Scotland, PhilosophyTags: brainful, brainless, captured, Hole Ousia, mindful, mindless, poem, Poems, poet, Science, the two cultures, Two Cultures

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 24, 2021

Who owns the land?

This image, as printed in Scotland on Sunday, 21 March 2021, returned my thoughts to the Cabrach, and a series of films that I made long ago:

Categories: Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1854, a modern ruin, A pocket book [found in Cabrach, a scurvy antiquary such as I am, a vulgar eloquence, abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen, actual or potential attitudes, actual or potential selves, Aldunie, Alexander McCall Smith, and feeling the only compass in life, Annalena McAfee, Antiquary, Architecture, Arts, Badly Drawn Boy, bank, beautiful summer, between the scavenger and the philosopher, Blackwater Lodge, Blackwater Shooting Lodge, body, brain, Buck, Built on the Clyde, Bundle and Go, Bursary, Cabrach, Cabrach Post Office, Cabrach Shooting lodge, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Can you unfeel that, Centenarian, Correction Wynd, Craighall castle, cut-in-half, Dauch, death, dialect, Distance and Memory, Distant Sky, divide, divides, Doric, duthchas, Easy Love, family history, farm, Fascaray, films on the Cabrach, Flight of ideas, For truly she is Nature's gentlewoman, frae weans to auld wans, Gaelic, Gamekeeper, gate, gateway, Gauch, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Gordon bursary, gripped by an intense nostalgia for the present, hairt, Hale Bopp, Hame, he had loved maps since he was a boy, heart, history lessons - we had been taught the big facts not the minor, Hole Ousia, Home for little children, I am part of all that I have met, I was free I was affronted by freedom, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian McEwan, If there could be a name, Intensely Local, island, It is by living we learn, James Law, James Ross, Little Sparta, Lordism, Lordism impoverishes the land, magpie, Mary Law, mind, Modern Ruin, Morbus Fascariensis, mountains, murder, My notebook will be better than a doctor, Nan Shepherd, objective, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Ou Phrontis, Paget's disease, Patrick Geddes, Peter and Sian, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon found a pocketbook, Peter Gordon Law, Peter J Gordon, Piano Theme, poet in a landscape, poetry and identity, Poor Old Love, Poor Old Tired Horse, post office, postmistress, Prospects bright for 'Twelfth', Queen Victoria, rainbow, rebel antiquary, Rhynie, Robert Gordon, ruin, ruins, Science, Scotland, Scots, She gangs in brawness, Shenval, shooting, Sian Fiona Williams, Silver darling, Social maverick, St Peter's Seminary, Straloch, subjective, The Antiquary, The Blossoms, The Cabrach Tragedy, the outdoors brought a sense of proportion, the places that loom large in our lives, The present order is the disorder of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The stories of a small glen, there really was no hurry. I was going nowhere. Nowhere but here, These are the hands, This is not yesterday, to be humbled, Two Cultures, un-scottish style, Vivendo Discimus, watergaw, we have no record of the poet's reaction when he opened the door, Wind farm, write about love, writer, writers, WWI, your far dispatches bring remoteness nea

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 10, 2021

“Perceived”

Presented with uncertain symptoms the doctor, a diligent scientist, checked every bit of data that had ever been established: evidence-based and randomised controlled. This empathic doctor [a natural worrier] re-checked … Continue reading “Perceived”

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, Stigma, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, “Perceived”, Baroness Cumberlege, By living we learn, Cumberlege Review, doctor, doctors, EBM, evidence based medicine, Evidence comes in all forms, first do no harm, FND, Hole Ousia, It is by living we learn, John Macmurray, medicine, MUS, On the Other side of the fence, patient, patients, Patrick Geddes, PE1651, Peter Gordon, poem, poetry, Poets, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Prescribed harm, Psychiatrists, Psychiatry, Randomised Controlled, Randomised Controlled Trial, RCT, rebel antiquary, Science, Scottish Poetry Library, Social maverick, stigma, The Antiquary, the other side of the fence, The Rebel Antiquary, The report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, Vivendo Discimus, Window tax

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021

divisive folly

I am the most scientific poet that poetry has ever known. AYE RIGHT! I am the most artistic scientist that science has ever known. AYE RIGHT!

Categories: Poems, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, aye right, divide, divisive, divisive folly, Folly, Hole Ousia, Little Sparta, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, philosophy, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, polarisation, rebel antiquary, Science, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Window tax

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