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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 1, 2023November 1, 2023

Smash Hits

Last Saturday we were fortunate to be able to view an exhibition of the creative work of Grayson Perry in the National [Royal Scottish Academy]:

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: "Concrete poetry" was noted for the spatial placement of the words and numbers, Alan Measles, Antiquary, artist, Concrete poetry, Edinburgh, Folk worth talking about, Grayson Perry, hate speech, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, info-wars, lettrism, Little Sparta, National [Royal Scottish Academy], Non-traditional backgrounds, October 2023, OUR TOWN 2022, progress hardly broke its stride, Rebel antquary, Royal Scottish Academy, Smash Hits, Social maverick, teddy bear, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, transitional object, transitional objects, Turner prize, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Vanity of small differences, 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), we are what we buy

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 May 12, 2023

the BLACKOUT

the BLACKOUT: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Music credit: Here comes the blackout – by Stornoway

Categories: Omphalos films, This is Not yesterdayTags: a little bit of activity [IMMEASURABLE], Antiquary, Big Ted, BLACKOUT, Bridge of Allan, Deanston School, Den o' Aldbar, Hale Bopp, here comes the Blackout, Hole Ousia, How do we seize the past (and things yet to come), I saw you blink, it was a struggle wearing my life on my skin, It was at Ruichlachrie that I had my unexpected seizure on the last day of 2021, John Berger, John Berger: about looking, Mavisbank, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, On my way home, On the last day of 2021 - out of the blue - I had a seizure when walking in the mountains above Blair Atholl., Over Here, Peter Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, rebel antiquary, risk to make nonsense, Seaton park, Social maverick, Stornoway, The Antiquary, the BLACKOUT, The Rebel Antiquary, time passes listen, tonight [in the Neil Lounge], transitional object, transitional objects, ursine familiar, Ursine familiars

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 12, 2023

On my way home

On my way home: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Music credit: ‘I saw you blink’ by Stornoway

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Back came my Grumpa in his SERIES II!, Bridge of Allan, films about bridge of Allan, Films with a [SERIES II] Land Rover, Hale Bopp, Hole Ousia, I saw you blink, Margaret Mary Scott, Mavisbank, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, On my way home, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Series II Land Rover, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Stornoway, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, time passes listen, transitional object, transitional objects, ursine familiar, Ursine familiars

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