pferguson | May 6, 2020
The Sweet Sound that Calls Every once in a while we are able to step outside the shade and into the light. I enjoy seeing little suggestions turned by creative minds into joy and laughter. Two recent ideas have proven popular and with each day in the shade I continue to try and cast a […]
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Tags: Alonenessness, Connection, COVID-19, Dark, Dreamers, Family, Film History, Light, Lovers, Rainbow, Rainbow Connection, Shade, Soundtracks, Storytelling, The Muppet Movie
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 | 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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Tags: Augustine Mandino II, Brandhoek, Brandhoek Military Cemetery, Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No. 3, Casualty Clearing Station, Dark, Field Ambulance, Kasteelgracht, Light, Rosary, Royal Field Artillery, Sarah Hatton, Shoeing Smith W. Allen, Stars
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