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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 23, 2020February 26, 2023

Where is now?

Our once new but now auld greenhouse was named after Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden. In the recent gales several glass panes have been blown out and our greenhouse is now … Continue reading Where is now?

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: a gardener is always a futurist, a place of growth where scholarly gardens are remembered, Antiquary, discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, Dr Peter Gordon, garden, Greek Revival, greenhouse, Healing landscape, healing landscapes, Hole Ousia, I was determined to present a healing landscape where an escape from "calm boredom" might be found, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Landscape Architecture, Language is the dwelling place of being, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, Mossgrove garden, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, scholarly, Social maverick, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, Sparta, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The Greek Revival, The Rebel Antiquary, time passes listen, we are surely very narrow if we understand only one culture (they talk of two cultures - but it seems to me there are twenty two. And all of value), Where is now Sparta - if you seek for their walls you will not even find ruins

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 14, 2019February 22, 2023

“He responded that his profession was being a humanist”

In what follows I have selected some of my favourite quotes from Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes and imaginatively/adventurously/romantically ‘linked’ them with some of my creative work:

Categories: Family history, Medical humanities, Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 'bird-coop of the muses', 1967, a modern ruin, A study in literature and Medicine, abandoned, adventure, All the light we cannot see, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, Antiquary, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, By living we learn, By yellow lights tormented, chemical imbalance, Corsewall lighthouse, Don Quixote, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, ethics, Flight of ideas, Friends of Liberty, friendship, from End to End, gentle gardener, George Orwell, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Girnoc, Girnock, Hale Bopp, He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, he said another three thousand pieces of nonsense, Hippocrates, 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, Ian Collins, In the Middle, It is by living we learn, It was a dangerous time to be human to fell or to think or to care, Kilmadock, 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, Nineteen eighty-four, Oceania, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Paxil, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, philosophy, poetry, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, quotes from Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, Scottish Poetry Library, Seroxat, 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 Antiquary, The Chemical Imbalance, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rules of Science, the sky is not little, The stories of a small glen, the two cultures, they marveled at his madness, through wastelands and crossroads, 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, Vintage Cervantes, Vivendo Discimus, well is there anyone who isn't tangent, what a lot of things you've strung together willy-nilly, with heart as gentle for distress, Woodend Hospital

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 1, 2019February 14, 2023

A little Spartan

I am a little Spartan. I retreat from Market forces, Ego and Ivory Towers. I do not attack but vulnerably question. Neither science nor art can divide Little Sparta.

Categories: Poems, Scotland, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Peter J Gordon, Hole Ousia, I am a little Spartan, I do not attack but vulnerably question, I retreat from Market forces Ego and Ivory Towers, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, Neither science nor art can divide Little Sparta, Peter Gordon, Peter's poems, poem, rebel antiquary, Scottish Poetry Library, Social maverick, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, Sparta, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Time to abandon the subjective–objective divide?, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution

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