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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 22, 2023

Long journey back

Being a magpie in old archives can be serendipitous. In the Aberdeen Press and Journal of 18 May 1985, this poem in Doric, titled Long Journey back was shared: At … Continue reading Long journey back

Categories: Deeside Tales, Family history, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 171 Clifton Road, A series of short films on the Cabrach, Aberdeen, Antiquary, Banffshire, Cabrach, Clashtruim, Class of 1990, Deeside Tales: The stories of a small glen, Donald Gordon, Donald McDonald Gordon, Doric, Doric poet, Enzie parish, Fair scunnert, Freak of Nature, Gauch, Glashturim, Hole Ousia, I am a magpie in black and white, I once wrote this poem about my Magpie tendencies, I share what a magpie collected, Long journey back, magpie, May 1985, Peter Gordon, poem, poet, poet and diplomat, poetry, Press and Journal, raided with heightened Magpie alertness, rebel antiquary, Robert Gordons, Scottish Poetry Library, scunnert, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Gangrel Fiddler and other poems, The North-east Muse, The Rebel Antiquary, the richness of Doric is now recognised and unleashes previously overlooked creativity in schools

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 12, 2023

Poems on the Carron valley

Falkirk Herald, 1 June 1871: Kirkintilloch Gazette, 11 October 1902:

Categories: Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1871, 1902, Antiquary, Carron Glen, Carron valley, Falkirk Herald, Hole Ousia, Kirkintilloch Gazette, Poems, Poems on the Carron valley, poetry, rebel antiquary, RUINS in Forth Valley, Scottish Poetry Library, Silver Strand, Social maverick, Strathcarron, Strathcarron [a few of my films], The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 19, 2023June 19, 2023

How being read a story can help

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, 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, A Thousand chances, abandoned, Aberdeen, adventure, All in my head, All in my heid, All the light we cannot see, an orchard for me, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, Antiquary, Around the Ochils, Around the Ochils in a SERIES II Land Rover, Art is an act of daring, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, AUDITIONS in PROGRESS, backwards learner, Big Ted, Biscuits, blossom, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, By living we learn, By yellow lights tormented, chemical imbalance, Chrys Muirhead, 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, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Edinburgh, ethics, Everything is growing in our garden, Featuring 'Big Ted' [knitted by Chrys Muirhead for Peter], felt madcap and adventurous, Firrhill High School, 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, How being read a story can help, 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 had a wild thought, I like it when you call me Mr Scott, 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, it's the adventurous who are shy, John Berger, 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, marvellous madness, Mary Midgley, miguel de cervantes, Modern Ruin, Mossgrove, Mossgrove garden, Mrs Beaton, MUD, Muriel Spark, 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, orchard, orchardman, Ousia, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Paxil, Peter and Sian, Peter and Sian's garden, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, Peter's preoccupation with Wunderkammers, philosophy, poetry, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, Rab Scott, Rachel Fiona Gordon, reality, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, sapere aude, Scottish Poetry Library, Seaton park, Series II, Series II Land Rover, Seroxat, Sherramoor, Sherrifmuir, shimmerin, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, 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 Elephant Child, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, The Glory of the ride, 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, This question was asked in last week's Sunday TIMES, through wastelands and crossroads, Tillybin, to be humbled, To speak our life as we feel it is a freedom, transitional object, transitional objects, translation, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, two girls sing, Two postcards from, 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 June 19, 2023

The Joy of Words

What a wonderful programme for the 2023 Edinburgh International Book Festival. Here are some of the events that I would like to attend, but in reality I will probably have … Continue reading The Joy of Words

Categories: Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 18 June 2023, 2023, A N Wilson, A Poet's Life, Alan Riach, alliums, Antiquary, August Blue, Baillie Gifford Sculpture Court, Ben Okri, Boyhood, Bridge of Allan, Charlotte Higggins, Coming to terms, confessions, Deborah Levy, Deborah Levy - "What if I can't imagine another culture?", Do We need a new cannon?, Don Paterson, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Enchantment, Epitome of current medical literature, friendship, Gerrard Carruthers, Grief is the thing with feathers, he wore his life on his skin, Hole Ousia, Ian McEwan, In my second and third year at Firrhill Comprehensive School Mrs Beaton was my English teacher, Incorrigibly plural, Katherine May, Lanny, Lessons, Max Porter, memoir, Mossgrove, Mrs Beaton, Mrs Beaton (my English teacher), Novel, novelist, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Open Up, P J Harvey, Peter Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age, rebel antiquary, Reflections on Identity, Sara Sheridan, Scotland, Scottish Poetry Library, shy, Social maverick, Stuart Kelly, The Antiquary, the doctor wore his sadness with such loveliness, The Joy of Words, The Measure of a Life, The Rebel Antiquary, The Short of It, they talk of two cultures - but it seems to me there are twenty two. And all of value, Thomas Morris, Tiger Work, We Don't know what we're doing

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