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By Hole Ousia Posted on March 12, 2021March 7, 2023

Secret of the Yew Tree

‘If we are on a path of initiation into the secrets of landscape, earthlore and healing, the yew tree can become a powerful heirophant.’ In the middle of the yew … Continue reading Secret of the Yew Tree

Categories: gardens, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1943, 700 year old layering Yew, a Miracle of Yew Regeneration, a modern ruin, abandoned, Abbotshall, Abercairney, Aberthuven, Adam and Eve, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander Moncrieffe, Alexander Naysmith, An ancient child, ancient, Andrew MacFarlane., Antiquary, Ardnamurchan, Argyll, Arm Chair, Arrochar, Auchendrane, Auchendrane yew, Ayrshire, bannister, Bernera, Berneray, Bienn a' Bhacaidh, Bienna Bhacaidh, Bilbliotheca Abscondita, Bower, brainlessness, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, castle, chapel of the Yew trees, child, circular yew, Clan Fraser, concentration camps, Condie, connection, Craigends, Craigends Yew, Crieff, Crookston castle, Culfargie, curves, Dalmellington, Dalserf, Dalserf parish Church, Dame Helen's castle, Dovecot, Dr Peter Gordon, Dunaskin, Dunwich, Earlshall, East Lothian, Eccles Church Tower, Edinburgh, Evelyn Waugh, exploration, Fife, fire, Ford, formal, Fortingal, Fortingal Yew, Fortingall, Fortingall Yew, Fraser Clan, garden, gardesns, Gask, gate, gatepiers, gateposts, gateway, Geese, gentle gardener, Glasgow, Glenhurich, Graeme, Great Montrose, Grove, hares would yet breed on his hearthstone, headless, Hedge, hedging, heirophant, Helen Liston Hardie, Hermit, herring, Hole Ousia, How to stop time, humanity, I Vow, I Vow castle, I Vow Yew, Inchbrakie, Incorrigibly plural, island, It is by living we learn, James Joyce, Jehanne Mehta, Kate McNiven, Keirs castle, Kilneuair, Kirkcaldy, Laight castle, landcape architecture, landscape, Landscape Architecture, Leon Eisenberg, light, Lismore, Little Spartan, Loch Awe, Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, Lochan na h' Iubhraich, Lochawe, Lochnell, Lord Darnley, Loss, MacFarlane, Mansion, Margaret Mary Scott, Marquis of Montrose, Mary Queen of Scots, Matt Haig, Max Sebald, Maze, memory, mindlessness, MLA distinction, model, Monzie, Musaem Clausum, national Trust for Scotland, Nature, New Condie, Nigel Tranter, Oliphant, Omphalos, Omphalos films, painter, Patrick Geddes, Patrick Graeme, Paul Greenwood, Persecuting Raploch, Perthshire, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, poem, poet, poetry, Pollok House, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, Rabbie Burns, Raploch, rebel antiquary, Renfrewshire, ring, Robert the Bruce, Rockingham, Rockingham elephants, ruin, ruins, Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees, Scotland, Scull, Secret of the Yew Tree, sermons, silver darlings, Social maverick, Somerleyton, St Columba, St Columba's Yew, St Giles, St Moluag, stairs, stairway, Stenton, Stirling-Maxwell, taxus baccata, The Abbotshall Yew, The Antiquary, The Auchendrane Yew, The Brownie's Cell, the Chapel of the Yew Trees, the Crookston yew tree, The Culfargie Yew, The Elanvow Preservation Fund, The faded glories of his Clan, The Fraser Yew, The Gentle Gardener, The Giant's Garden, The Inchbrakie Yew, the largest Yew tree in Scotland, the lion of the secession churc, The little loch of the yew grove, the living hedge, The Monastery, the ormiston Yew, The Raploch Yew, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, The speaking hedge, The Wallace Yew, the yew tree can become a powerful heirophant, These are the hands, Thomas Browne, three castles, three sisters, topiary, village, Vivendo Discimus, W G Sebald, Walter Scott, When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree, William Hamilton, William Wallace, William Wordsworth, Winfried Georg Sebald, witch, Would you Adam and Eve it?, writer, WWII, Wyndeham Le strange, Yew, Yew hedge, Yew tree, Yew trees, Yews

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 24, 2019February 21, 2023

1998: The Rings of Saturn

‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W. G. Sebald was considered by critics to be “one of the most remarkable books of the year”

Categories: Architecture, Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: "one of the most remarkable books of the year", 'The Rings of Saturn' by W. G. Sebald, Antiquary, Hole Ousia, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, W G Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 24, 2019February 21, 2023

herring and silk: loss, light

I was very fortunate to have been commissioned by Alexander McCall Smith to make short films of two of the songs from ‘These are our Hands’. One of those films … Continue reading herring and silk: loss, light

Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Alexander McCall Smith, Antiquary, Built on the Clyde, Dr Peter Gordon, He contrasts this loss with the light that comes from silkworms (sericulture), herring, Hole Ousia, I was very fortunate to have been commissioned by Alexander McCall Smith to make short films, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Sebald considers the herring industry which left the sea empty of silver darlings, sericulture, silk, silkworms, silver darlings, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, The Rings of Saturn' by W. G. Sebald is a haunting but beautiful book, These are our Hands, These are the hands, W G Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 24, 2019February 21, 2023

apples on the sill of the window

A quote from ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W G Sebald. This is for Mrs Picken.

Categories: Family history, gardens, Orchards, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A quote from 'The Rings of Saturn' by W G Sebald., Antiquary, apples on the sill of the window, Bootmaker, Colinton, Colinton Magazine, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh Evening News, gateway, Hole Ousia, Jackie Picken, John Picken, kindness, Mrs Picken, newspaper boy, paperboy, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Picken, rebel antiquary, Redford drive, shoe shop, shoeshop, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, This is for Mrs Picken, W G Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald, Yew, Yew hedge, Yew trees, Yews

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