pferguson | March 31, 2020
I wonder… Each night I walk. A steady jaunt through the neighbourhood, choosing to walk when fewer people are about…there is less risk that way. As I walk the road the 7 PM salute to our first responders builds. I watch as one curious robin hops across a lawn, his ear openings wizened to these […]
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Tags: 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion, COVID-19, Edward Atherton, France and Flanders, Military Medal, Observatory Ridge, Poppy, Stretcher Bearer, Zouave Valley Cemetery
pferguson | March 30, 2020
Introducing a new series… The other day I wrote all blossoms are perfect, nonetheless I will always continue my search in awe of each petal, each burst of new life, new joy, new inspiration. In these current days of complication, I also turn to the history of others whose resilience in adversity was noted, recorded […]
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Tags: #1 Canadian Plastic & Jaw Surgery Unit, Australian Memorial Park, Commendation, COVID-19, Fromelles (France), Nelson Kitchener Barrett, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, Selflessness
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 14, 2020
It has occurred, an unwanted centenary Following commemorations marking the days and events of the Great War Centenary, we now face the reappearance of an unwelcome 2020 visitor – a global pandemic. Mimicking the timing of the influenza pandemic of 1918 – 1920 we now have Coronavirus or COVID-19. The new virus first appeared towards […]
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Tags: Alan Arnett McLeod VC, Albert Edward McKenzie VC, All Saint’s Churchyard Extension, Camberwell Old Cemetery, Canadian Army Medical Corps, Cholera Epidemic, Coronavirus, COVID-19, George Raymond Dallas Moor VC MC and Bar, Julian Royds Gribble VC, Kildonan Presbyterian Cemetery, Médaille d’honneur des épidémies, Niederzwehren Cemetery, Pandemic, Prisoner of War, Victoria Cross, William Leefe Robinson VC, Y Farm Military Farm Cemetery
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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