pferguson | September 19, 2017
For a Thousand Years Each new day here on the Salient brings something new to my being. Though we have seen many of these places before with each new step there is a new experience to feel, a new plain to watch across. Today we have traded four wheels for two, from fossil fuel to foot […]
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Tags: 15th Battalion CEF, 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1st Canadian Division, Churchbells, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Family, For a Thousand Years, Hill 60, Hooge Crater Cemetery, Lady Haig Poppy Cross, Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Maple Copse Cemetery, Mont Sorrel, Remembrance, Wreaths, Ypres Salient, Zillebeke Churchyard Cemetery
pferguson | June 17, 2017
A Powerful Allegory This all started with a reminder of wheat blowing across the fields to the beat of the wind, anchored to this good earth. This earth, this place that keeps us despite all that we have attempted to carve from it. A recent post by the Flanders Jocks of a Scottish soldier standing […]
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Tags: Allegory, Family, Film History, Flanders Jocks, Gladiator, Home, Honour, Jean Redpath, Maximus, Resurrection, Strength, Symbols, Wheat, Will Ye No Come Back Again
pferguson | June 4, 2017
Chance – Observation – Imagery – Voice and even a little Research A recent opportunity allowed me to think a bit more about what I do to create content – to find relationships between like things, dissimilar things and to create or perhaps reconnect connections. I suggested to my audience there were five keys that […]
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Tags: Anne Murray, Connection, David Francey, Eddie and the Cruisers, Eddie and the Cruisers II Eddie Lives!, Family, Film History, Gatherings, Hank Williams, Hey Good Lookin', Imagery, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, Midway, New York City, Oak Bay, Observation Chance, Peter Bourne, Remembrance, Research, Soundtracks, Victoria, Voice, What About Me
pferguson | April 11, 2017
It is as if Vimy is the start of what I do Vimy is connected to family. It’s personal. This I learned many years ago from my grandmother who told me stories about her father…..which were…..upon reflection…..stories her mother had told. This was the man Grannie knew…..memories…..passed from one generation to another. Grannie was two […]
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Tags: 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion, Family, Generations, Home, My Vimy, Ole Berget, Vimy Memorial, Vimy Rededication 2007, Vimy Ridge
pferguson | November 4, 2016
Mountains and Places – Any Day and Any Table Many of us enjoy watching movies time and time again. Each year I promise myself to find a few others and as I sit with pencil and paper in hand, neatly levered into my chair – my place, I jot down a few titles or more. […]
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Tags: Alison Krause, Ashokan Farewell, Cold Mountain, Family, Film History, Language, Nations, Nicole Kidman, Place, Remembrance, The Civil War, The Great War, The Scarlet Tide, War