pferguson | May 28, 2022
I would say…sadly once again Take these spirits from within my soul and pass them upwards into heaven. Give; to those that have left us far too soon and let their hearts shine back upon us. For their smiles and warmth, the colour and glint of their eyes warms us all in the spirit of […]
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pferguson | November 11, 2021
The day seems to bring few words and then… I slip upon mon tete my hat from Juno Beach, place the camera bag over my shoulder and adjust my poppy. It is time to take up the trail. I start the walk towards the memorial. This day it wants to rain…it wants the cold…elements I […]
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pferguson | January 16, 2021
Pen and Key The quiet suggests a slight hint of echo within my ears. They too…like all of self are searching, my mind races towards an endless sea of pages, facing not upwards but viewed from their edges. Within the constant turning only the blur of ideas. No story…no pictures…only endless notes posted haphazard to […]
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pferguson | November 11, 2020
2020-11-11 My dear soldier friend, Again, I see you upon the high ground ever watchful. Each year we visit. Your sharp-eyed gaze has again passed across these horizons a hundred tens of thousands of times…Your watch… infinite…embedded within you, all that have passed, all here this day and all you know who will follow…this due…to […]
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pferguson | September 25, 2020
1860 – 1900 (excluding the Second Boer War 1899-1902) Following the Indian Mutiny or Sepoy Mutiny, British soldiers and sailors found themselves deeply involved in colonial battles across the British Empire. The “pink” of the globe was well known to students and diplomats of Empire, so too the gun and cannon of powerful, organized troops […]
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