Category: The Arts

  • No Lockdown on the River Garry

    This short film by Sitar Rose is a contemplative study of the Scottish countryside during lockdown.  There is a series of still shots along the River Garry down to Loch Oich.  The river runs from the west of Pilochry to the north of Fort William.

  • Photography

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  • The Light on the Shore

    Old as I am Older than the threads of understanding Which we weave between us Old as you are Older by far than the contours of the love Old as I am Older than the threads of understanding Which we weave between us Old as you are Older by far than the contours of the…

  • The world is a beautiful place to be born into

    The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in heaven they don’t sing all the time The world is a beautiful place to…

  • The White Man’s Burden

    The white man’s burden Rang loud and clear Trumpeted by church and state alike. Exercise dominion over the colored savages. Cleanse them of their heathen ways.

  • Chinese poems

    Po Chü-i was born at T’ai-yüan in Shansi. Most of his childhood was spent at Jung-yang in Honan. His father was a second-class Assistant Department Magistrate. He tells us that his family was poor and often in difficulties.  (772-846)

  • u3a Photographs

    The following photos were taken by members of  Photography 4 of University of the Third Age, Edinburgh. Every month the members decide on a subject and submit a few photographs on Dropbox followed by a viewing on zoom.  At other times, one member gives a presentation about some aspect of photography. Our group leader, Geoff Gardner,…

  • March 1st 2020 St David’s Day

    Prelude to poem ‘March 1st, 2020, St David’s Day’ This poem was written last year, just before the World Pandemic 2020 exploded in the UK, during a time, when all we had to worry about was ‘differences of opinion’! That still remains, of course, and for me, my ongoing ‘fight’ is over ‘styles of gardening’…

  • Stephanie Jones

    Stephanie Jones is an active soloist and chamber musician who is currently based in Germany and studying Konzertexamen at the University of Music Franz Liszt with Prof. Thomas Müller-Pering.

  • Why I Love Glasgow/London

    My name is Hilary Harris – since retiring from my catering business after 25 years, I have been fortunate to undertake some spectacular world travels. I have photographed some great images to capture these memorable journeys

  • THE GOAL OF BUDDHISM

  • BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

    Photographs submitted for the University of the Third Age Photographic Group Edinburgh. Subject:  Black and White            

  • CONTEMPLATIONS

    Contemplations on no coming, no-going This body is not me, I am not limited by this body. I am life without boundaries. I have never been born, and I have never died. Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars, Manifestations from my wondrous true mind. Since before time, I have been free.…

  • MULTIPLE MORBIDITIES

    Multiple morbidities: the term they use to capture all the ways that nature fashions for us how to die: The cancer didn’t get him,                                                                                            but the diabetes did; that unpredicted stroke; the virus lying dormant; and infection in the throat; Or perhaps some unattributable malaise accumulated down the years – the persistent aching emptiness of…

  • Times of Tribulation – April 1st – All Fools’ Day, 2020    

    Spring’s stance hung, chilled; grim sky surged, grey, ‘Fool’ ventured down to the Prom that day Took chosen, odd path, chanced route, least trod, Vain trampling, awry, o’er matted green sod, Clambered high bluff, breathless; traversed bleak tops, Below, vast-spreading river…above, lean lonely copse, ‘Tis “Thirty-two days syn March began”, Familiar, stark words for a…

  • Bernie Hartley: WHERE THAT THUNDER RINGS

    For information on Bernie Hartley please visit his home page.

  • THE WAY OF THESE TIMES

    Reunion in a guest house in Kabul. Four years later you give me an Afghan carpet. Hand made in Herat. Roll it out by the fern frost window and sip green tea and tell me of your daughters the Way These Times have foiled their paths to school. And now the year splutters through Buhare…