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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 21, 2021

The sky belongs to us all

Mossgrove garden, May 2021.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: a gardener is always a futurist, a gardener's hand, Ageing stone, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Belle and Sebastian, Bridge of Allan, C Duncan, Domino, Drambuie, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, ducks, Edwin Morgan, Everything is growing in our garden, frogs, garden, Garden song, gardener, gentle gardener, Gordon family, Heidi, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, It is by living we learn, John Berger, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, Luca, Mavisbank, meadow, Mike Masse, Mossgrove, newts, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Geddes, Pereunt et Imputantur, Peter, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, pond, Rab Scott, Rachel, Rachel Fiona Gordon, reaching like a sweet pea for the sun, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, said the gardener, Scarborough Fair, Scotland, Show me the sun, Sian, Sian Fiona Williams, sightlines, so alive, Social maverick, Sterling Cottam, swet peas, That Summer, The Ageing Stone, The Antiquary, the garden moved in the breeze, The gardener, The Gentle Gardener, The manner of what we make defines us, The Rebel Antiquary, the sky belongs to us all, the two cultures, Two Cultures, Two Girls Singing, Vivendo Discimus, Westerton Drive

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021

Poetry and music together

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 2014, 23 January 2021, 464A ALLELE 12, a feeling of being suspended between the sky and the sea, A hopeless case, A L Kennedy, A person has to be transcendent somewhere, Ageing is Truth, Ageing stone, Amalfi, Andrew Robert Gordon, Anthony Doeer, Antiquary, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, beautiful summer, Belle and Sebastian, between the scavenger and the philosopher, both personal and communal, Bridge of Allan, Casulaties, Charlotte's cave, Cimbrone, Clackmannan, Deborah Levy, Dunkeld, Edinburgh marathon, Edmund de Waal, essay, essays, essays can help us learn a new means of being together, Family films, Feature, Features, films for Sian, Fugitive from Girgenti, Gail Low, gardens, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Green grow the rashes 'o, Gregory's Girl, Hale Bopp, Hanya Yaanagihara, Hartshaw Mill, Haughhead., He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, Hole Ousia, humanities, Imagine being a colour and a feeling, IMAGINED SPACES, In the Middle, Innerpeffray, Innerpeffray Library, January 2021, Kalemouth Suspension Bridge, Kirsty Gunn, Lecropt, Library, Lismore, Little Sparta, lost, Lost (remastered), love, Medical Humanties, medicine, Mossgrove, Musselburgh, No more white coats, now that social media has reduced so much of public discource to little more than point-scoring, nuces philosophicae, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one hundred and thirty years, Paestum, pandemic, Part of, Perth, Peter and Sian, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Poetry and music come together, Poetry and music come together as one creative expression, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rationalisation, Ravello, rebel antiquary, Roddy Woomble, ruins, Scotsman, Scottish Cup, Seeds in the wind, She said nothing and she shone, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, social media, something of the sky, Somewhere on the other side of the afternoon’s horizon, St John's, St Johnstone, Strathearn, That small place in the whole of time, The Ageing Stone, the anatomy of emotion, The Antiquary, The Beautiful Summer, the beginning of wisdom, The Fair Maid of Perth, the Great Garden, The manner of what we make defines us, The Medicine is in Aberdeen, The North and South Inches, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, the wedding of Peter and Sian, This is not yesterday, Together we are an endless conversation, twitter, Two Cultures, Walter Scott, we stopped listening and kept on leaping, Wedding, what was it you saw, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, when you say I like biscuits, Windsor gardens, wrapped up in books, You are my world

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 22, 2020December 22, 2020

outdoors and a sense of proportion

I have been pruning the fruit trees in our garden and am now puggled! I find that being outdoors helps bring a sense of proportion.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2020, a gardener is always a futurist, a gardener's hand, Ageing stone, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Big Ted, Bridge of Allan, C Duncan, Domino, Drambuie, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, ducks, Edwin Morgan, Everything is growing in our garden, frogs, garden, Garden song, gardener, gentle gardener, Heidi, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, In search of lost time, It is by living we learn, John Berger, Lanny, Little Sparta, Looking through glass, Luca, Marcel Proust, Mavisbank, Max Porter, meadow, Mike Masse, Mossgrove, Mukul Kesavan, newts, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Geddes, Pereunt et Imputantur, Peter Gordon, pond, pruning, puggled, Rab Scott, Rachel, Rachel Fiona Gordon, reaching like a sweet pea for the sun, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, said the gardener, Scarborough Fair, Scotland, Sian, Sian Fiona Williams, sightlines, so alive, Social maverick, Sterling Cottam, swet peas, That Summer, The Ageing Stone, The Antiquary, the garden moved in the breeze, The gardener, The Gentle Gardener, The manner of what we make defines us, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, Two Girls Singing, Vivendo Discimus

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