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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 2, 2021

Canto 2

The following short films by Peter are about poets and poetry [please click on each image to play a different film]: Balansnummer [a protest poem]: I have written my heart … Continue reading Canto 2

Categories: gardens, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, Two culturesTags: a modern ruin, A Subalterns Love Song, ageing, Ageing is Truth, Ageing stone, Airmail, AIRMAIL the letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer, Alexander Laing, Antiquary, Balansnummer, Beyond the last Dragon, Boness, Brechin, Bridge of Allan, by the way, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Canongate, Canto 2, Canto Two, Cardross, Clive Wright, Discretions and absences, DLROW, Do you hear the plaster drop, Edwin Morgan, Femi Oyebode, Films and POETRY, From Scotland with Love, Gordon family, Great Aunt Mabel, Hole Ousia, I have written my heart in my poems, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Inverpeffray, It happens but rarely, Joan Hunter Dunn, John Betjeman, Kilmadock, Language is the dwelling place of being, Library, Little Gidding, Little Sparta, Little Tullybelton, Makar, Makar for Stirling, Makar of Stirling, Maker, Margaret Scott, meet you at the statue in an hour, Midway, miss joan hunter dunn, MMSE, Monument, Mossgrove, mushroom poems, Nobel prize, Norman Maccaig, Omphalos, Omphalos fims, Perth, Peter Gordon, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Poets, poets and poetry, Poets Lane, protest poem, Rare Species, rebel antiquary, Richard Feynman, River Teith, Robert Bly, Robert Fergusson, Robert Nicholl, Robert Pollok, Scotland, Scotland;s Close, Scottish Poetry Library, scrapbooks, short films, Social maverick, St Ann's, St Peter's Seminary, Stirling's Makar, T S Eliot, The Ageing Stone, The Antiquary, The course of time, The extraordinariness of the usua, The extraordinariness of the usual, The Frog Poet, The poem that time forgot, The Rebel Antiquary, The time is coming up to half-past four, the two cultures, the view from the bench, the wellspring, Tomas Transtromer, Tullybelton, Two Cultures, view from the bench, Wayside Flowers, we belong to the earth, We shall shine in a story that has never been told, Wilfred owen, William Soutar, with heart as gentle for distress, With such strength I have to conceal the passion for fear it may be thought weakness, Wittgenstein, words not found in this dictionary, WORLD spelled backwards, Worry undone, wrapped up in books, You ask me what it is I do

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020June 12, 2022

For my mum and dad

Please click on each image to play each short film on Edinburgh. These films are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, 1904, 1908, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Abbotsford, ageing, Ageing stone, air-raid shelter, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, Baudolino, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Bridge of Allan, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Carubber's Manse, Castlebank Laundry, Charlotte Square, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christopher Lloyd, Cities in Evolution, Colinton, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, Craigmillar Laundry, Damon Albarn, David Livingstone, David Peters, dawdle to sniff the beauty of the world, Deborah Levy, designed for use in a rebellion, distressed furniture, Do not say we have nothing, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Samuel Brown, Due North, Dunira, Dunira's Lost garden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh half-marathon, Edinburgh marathon, Edinburgh Zoo, Eyre Terrace, Falcon Hall, Films about Edinburgh, films on Edinburgh, Fletcher Norton, Florence Nightingale, Follow Me, Francis Seymour Haden, Freedom to speak up, From Scotland with Love, Full of Energy, Gabriel García Márquez, garden, gardener, gateways, Geoffrey Jellicoe, George Saunders, Gilmerton House, Girdwood, Glasgow, Go North, Half of a yellow sun, Hatton, Hawkhill, Hawkhill House, Henry Dundas, Hermits and Termits, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, House of Shaws, I had a project as a tiny boy, Indy-Ref, Iron gate sensitivity, IS WASHDAY WORTHWHILE?, It is by living we learn, James Clerk Maxwell, James Georgeson, Jessie lennox, Joan Bakewell, Joan Bakewell with Richard Holloway: Moving On, John Berger, John Lanchester, John Wilson, Joseph Gerrald, keepsake, King George IV Park, Kipps, labour of omission, Leaving Alexandria, Left-behind gateway, Liberty, lion rampant, Lost Edinburgh: The Royal Patent Gymnasium, magically reached out, Mary Brooksbank, Maurice Margarot, Mavisbank, meet you at the statue, meet you at the statue in an hour, Methven Simpson, MLA distinction, Modern Athenians, Monument to the Political Martyrs', Morningside, moving on, Mrs Picken, Muriel Spark, Murrayfield, Murrayfield stadium, mushrooms, Napier Road, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], New Town, newspaper boy, Nick Cave, Nobel prize, Nooks and Crannies, Nor' loch, North Loch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, ORPHAN Hospital [ Site of], P J Harvey, Pale Fire, Partick Geddes, Past and present, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Patrick Geddes, Patrick Neil, Patriothall, Patriothall Laundry, patriotic, Paul Buchanan, PE1493, Penelope Fitzgerald, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Peter's films on Edinburgh, Physic Garden, Pipe Lane, Pipe Lane Public Toilets, Platform 11, Playhouse Close, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Polaris, Police Boxes, Political Martyrs, Prince Street, Princes Street Gardens, Prodrums, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, Richard Holloway, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Sibbald, Rockville, Rodney Tunnel, Rose, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Patent Gymnasium, rugby, Saughton, Scotland, Scotland Street, Scotland Street Station, Scotland Street tunnel, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish Government, Scottish National Exhibition, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish Parliament, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Square, she said, She said nothing and she shone, Sian Fiona Williams, Silvermills, smash out into the sunlight, Smash out into the sunshine, Social maverick, Spurtle, St Andrew Square, St Andrew's House, St Andrew's Square, St Leonard's Improvement Scheme, statue, steam laundry, Stockbridge, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Sylvia Plath, Tapestry of Scotland, The Antiquary, the black lady, The BMJ, The cost of living, The friends of liberty, the gate of Angels, The Great Tapestry of Scotland, the laundry problem, The making of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The Royal Patent Gymnasium, the scandal of the century, The Scottish National Exhibition, the texture of time, The Ticking of Two Clocks, The wall, the warld's ill-divided, The well tempered garden, Theatre, This plethora of detail, thistle, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Thomas Transtömer, time passes listen, Tiny Desk Concerts, Tom Jones, Tomas Transtromer, Tomb of the Red lady, Traditionalism: Edinburgh's dilemma, Umberto Eco, Vivendo Discimus, Vladimir Nabokov, Waiting for the last bus, Walter Scott, Warriston Cemetery, Waverley, weather bomb, Well tempered Garden, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh, [in its ending] Scotland Street Station

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 4, 2019July 4, 2019

‘An energetic and brilliant (if quirky) polymath’

The following account of Dr Arthur Brock (1879-1947) is from this paper by David Cantor:

Categories: History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Scotland, Two culturesTags: A J Brock, Alexander McCall Smith, An energetic and brilliant (if quirky) polymath, Antaeus, Arthur Brock, Arthur J Brock, Arthur John Brock, Between Galen Geddes and the Gael, British Medical Journal, By living we learn, Camera Obscura, Comte, Craiglockhart, Dr Peter J Gordon, Eccentric, Edinburgh, Galen, Garth hill, Hercules, Hole Ousia, Humanism, Humbie, It is by living we learn, Kirkliston, medical humanism, North Queensferry, On the Natural Faculties, Outlook tower, Overton, Overtoun, Patrick Geddes, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, polymath, Scotland, social determinants, Social maverick, The BMJ, the two cultures, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Vivendo Discimus, Wilfred owen

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 22, 2019September 17, 2020

‘The Psychology of the Medical Profession’

I recently came across this letter published in the BMJ 81 years ago. As far as I know it has not been read again since the summer of 1938. Dr … Continue reading ‘The Psychology of the Medical Profession’

Categories: British Medical Journal, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Scotland, Sunshine Act for Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Arthur Brock, ‘Evidence Based Medicine’ or ‘Industry Biased Medicine’, Barbreck, BMJ, By living we learn, Dr Arthur Brock, Dr Patrick Geddes, Dr Peter Gordon, Hole Ousia, Ian Collins, industry, It is by living we learn, James Archibald Campbell, No sunshine for Scotland, Patrick Geddes, PE1493, Pharmaceutical Industry, Prescribed harm, Realistic Medicine, Social maverick, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Sunshine legislation, The BMJ, The Narrative Controllers, violin, Vivendo Discimus, Wilfred owen, With such strength I have to conceal the passion for fear it may be thought weakness

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