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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 28, 2022October 29, 2022

Mind that child

Mind that child: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Opening audio: Storytelling – Sunday Morning, Radio Scotland, 23rd Oct 2022 Music credit: Big … Continue reading Mind that child

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Gilbert Farie, Omphalos films, 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 houses had their stories, All the light we cannot see, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, Arctic Monkeys, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, AUDITIONS in PROGRESS, ballad, Big Ideas, Big Ted, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, Broom of Moy, 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, funeral director, gate, gatekeeper, Gatekeeper [summer edition], gates, gateway, gentle gardener, George Orwell, Gilbert Farie, 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, King Kong, 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, Mind that child, 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, over and out, 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, Radio Scotland, reality, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, sapere aude, Scottish Poetry Library, Seaton park, Series II Land Rover, 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, stories, story, story telling, Strathallan, Sunday Morning, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, SVS 978, 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, Transient Landscapes, transitional object, translation, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, two girls sing, ursine familiar, Ursine physiology, 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 March 30, 2022March 31, 2022

glance

A few weeks ago I lost my wallet on the train home from Bannockburn. Tuesday, 29th March 2022, I collected my lost Wallet from Queen Street Station: GLANCE: To watch … Continue reading glance

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, This is Not yesterdayTags: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, Behind the graph lie a million stories, Epidemiology, Frédéric Lo, George Saunders, Glance, Glasgow, Grayson Perry, Grayson's Art Club, Hole Ousia, Leo Tolstoy, lost wallet, making meaning in a meaningless universe, Master and Man, meaning doesn't exist unless you look for it, On my radar, Peter Doherty, Philippa Perry, Reading, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, short stories, Social maverick, stories, stories we hear and stories we tell, Stories we tell ourselves, story, story telling, The Antiquary, The Epidemiologist, the great non-Vasili of it all, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, What do you care about in this story, why select just a certain few stories to define yourself, writing

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 29, 2022March 29, 2022

Vasili

This is a description of the Vasili Andreyevich Brekhunov a character in Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Master and Man’ [the description is given by George Saunders] George Saunders concluded his take of … Continue reading Vasili

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, Behind the graph lie a million stories, bragging, bully, disparaging others, Fiona Shaw, George Saunders, Hole Ousia, in which four Russians give a master class, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, life, making meaning in a meaningless universe, meaning doesn't exist unless you look for it, Nikolai Gogol, not loved much, of every-story-that-could possibly-be, On my radar, petty tyrant, Reading, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, short stories, Social maverick, stories, stories we hear and stories we tell, Stories we tell ourselves, story, story telling, Sunday Observer, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, Vasili, Vasili Andreyevich Brekhunov, What do you care about in this story, why select just a certain few stories to define yourself, writing

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 27, 2022

Confident enough to stay unsure

Last year I read ‘A swim in the pond in the rain’ by George Saunders it is a wonderful book that explores not just how great writing works but also … Continue reading Confident enough to stay unsure

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, Behind the graph lie a million stories, Confident enough to stay unsure, Fiona Shaw, George Saunders, Hole Ousia, in which four Russians give a master class, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, life, making meaning in a meaningless universe, meaning doesn't exist unless you look for it, Nikolai Gogol, of every-story-that-could possibly-be, On my radar, Reading, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, short stories, Social maverick, stories, stories we hear and stories we tell, Stories we tell ourselves, story, story telling, Sunday Observer, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, What do you care about in this story, why select just a certain few stories to define yourself, writing

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