pferguson | April 19, 2020
“Everything Starts With Light”. Ara Güler Photojournalist. The Eye of Istanbul. Dearest Mother Peace, I passed your way this morning to climb an old friend…Mt. Tolmie…to see this city…to visit a solitary tree near to its crest. A bonfire here once signaled an ending…for miles around all were made aware, from its flame, of a […]
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Tags: Ara Güler, Bells, Bourdon Bell, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, COVID-19, Dark, Darkness, Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Leonard Cohen, Light, Love, Mother Peace, Mt. Tolmie, Notre Dame, Oak Bay War Memorial, Silence, Stillness
pferguson | April 15, 2020
Carved into the Lessons from History On 14 April 2020 the Daily Express presented the suggestion, made by Mr. Terence McIlroy, that in recognition of the bravery of the British National Health Service (NHS), during the Covid-19 pandemic, that the organization could be presented with the honorific award of the George Medal. Although the article […]
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Tags: COVID-19, Croix de Guerre (France), Daily Express, Distinguished Service Cross, Dunkirk, George Cross, George Medal, In Flanders Fields Museum, Malta, Medal of Honour (France), Military Cross, National Health Service, Pandemic, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Terence McIlroy, Verdun, Ypres
pferguson | March 28, 2020
Softness to My Eyes There is a red heart in the window as I walk the quiet of the early evening. Mallards huddle closely in the quiet of a school field as the spring rain washes our town, our nature. The moisture runs freely along the roadside, its watery current in syncopation with the 7pm […]
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Tags: Blossoms, Contagion, COVID-19, Film History, Green Book, Katsumoto, Kindness, Pandemic, Peter Farrelly, Red Heart, Softness, Springtime, Steven Soderbergh, Synchronicity, Syncopation, The Last Samurai, Tranquility
pferguson | March 6, 2020
Yesterday It seems an hour plus more of feeling through articles of history, sensing the writers’ directions, passions and dedications has come to a close for this time. I wander to the deck and stand before the behemoth twins. As the starboard bow opens…its wheel provides the sharp but not unpleasant tones of the skakuhachi. […]
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Tags: Cascade Freighting and Towing Company, HMS Avoca, Mill Bay - Brentwood Ferry, MV Klitsa, Saanich Inlet, Sound, SS Cascade, Storytelling, Weather
pferguson | February 8, 2020
Concerning Hobbits Lord of the Rings Oneness So far from Scotland and piping – yet the sound of a tin whistle brings the days of the Celts – Picts and Gaels to mind. The age of then is here within a much read and spoken story – time and time again. With each line by […]
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Tags: Andrew Lesnie, Celts, Cinematography, Composition, Concerning Hobbits, Film History, Fran Walsh, Gaels, History of the Ring, Howard Shore, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Oneness, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Picts, Screenplay, Soundtrack, Storytelling