pferguson | November 11, 2019
Remembrance I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Augustine Mandino II (Author and WWII USAAF B-24 Bombardier) This one night, seemingly so long ago, I lie awake looking from the window of our Brandhoek stay. The view is the […]
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pferguson | October 28, 2019
Reminders After the war…each day’s new peace is punctuated by the craggy and weighted fragments of former ambition and rubble. Once these were buildings…these were homes. The exclamations, and pauses, the commas, the full stops of life. With each day a small section of peace is renewed as foundation is revealed…the rebuilding continues. Brick by […]
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Tags: British War Graves Commission, Church Army, Dark, Evil, Family, Ieper, Light, Love, Pilgrims, Rebuilding, Sacred, Salvation Army, St. Barnabas, YMCA, Ypres
pferguson | May 29, 2019
A late night to be sure Trees hang over the road…this way home. Dark as those that absorb all light, blue-black sky, silver ripples bared across the water. To write of the night…the dark…exceptional stillness, save for scampering thoughts. This night I have been, watched and listened. I have seen trees as witnesses, branches as […]
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Tags: 29th Marines, Brookwood Military Cemetery, Dark, Ernest C. Anderson, Fellowship, Film, Folly, Hurt, Imagination, In Flanders Fields Museum, Light, Murrayville War Memorial, Punchbowl Crater (National Cemetery of the Pacific), Shepherds, Tolkien, Trees, Wisdom
pferguson | April 10, 2019
Black Holes and the Pale Blue Dot: Creation and Destruction Black holes are so dense and have such strong gravity that anything that crosses their threshold — known as the event horizon — gets pulled into them, never to return. That includes both matter and light, making them black and invisible. (Nicole Mortillaro, CBC News, April 10, 2019) […]
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Tags: Agent Orange, Albert Einstein, Atomic Bomb, Black Hole Sun, Black Holes, Carl Sagan, Chlorine and Mustard gases, Chris Cornell, Creation, Dark, Destruction, Fatman, Gatlings, J. Robert Oppenheimer, James Cleland Richardson, Light, Little Boy, Maschinegewehrs, Napalm, Pale Blue Dot, Science, Scientific Slaughter, Shrapnel, Soundgarden, Vickers, Weaponized Bacteria
pferguson | December 14, 2016
…my old friend The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. (Often attributed to Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman, circa 1770). The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time. (British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, 1914). We […]
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Tags: 1770, 1914, 1960, 1963, 1964, 2016, Dark, Darkness, David Drainman, Disturbed, East Yorkshire Regiment, Edmund Burke, John F. Kennedy, Light, Memory, Paul Simon, Silence, Silhouette, Simon and Garfunkel, Sir Edward Grey, The Sound of Silence