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 […]
Category: Our Thoughts |
No Comments »
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 | September 9, 2017
“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.” Joseph Conrad, 1899 In 1978 I read Heart of Darkness. In 1979 I watched Apocalypse Now. I went to the cinema on my own that early evening and still, to this day, recall the opening. Rotating sound across a black screen, jungle, the hint of smoke, silence, […]
Category: Our Thoughts |
No Comments »
Tags: Apocalypse Now, Darkness, Film History, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Francis Ford Coppola, Heart, Heart of Darkness, Ideas, Imagery, James M. Lundberg, Joseph Conrad, Ken Burns, Less, More, Passion, Photo-Journalists, Soundtracks, Symbolism, The Civil War, The Doors, The Vietnam War, This is the End, Vision, War Correspondents
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 […]
Category: Our Thoughts |
No Comments »
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
pferguson | August 3, 2014
An Online Exhibit for Every Day of the Great War Marking 100 Years Distant Yesterday Theirs’ was a distant yesterday. These men and women who joined the campaign that took them to far and distant places. Towns and villages that would become all too familiar to other towns and villages as a timeline of chaos […]
Category: Odds & Ends |
No Comments »
Tags: Darkness, Family, Great War, Home, Letters, Light, Machine Guns, Menin Gate, Nurses, Online Exhibit, Poperinghe, Postcards, Shrapnel, Somme, Storytelling, Wounded