pferguson | April 25, 2020
Herbie MacLeod 3 RCMP Pipes and Drums Ottawa, 2012 The Drums Do Beat Sitting here I think of my old Nova Scotia home. Watching the news, hearing their names and of their lives…not known to me, but now known to Canada. With a deep sigh I close my eyes and breathe…voices I once knew, their […]
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Tags: Emily Tuck, Fiddle, Fiddle Music, Herbie MacLeod, Home, Natalie MacMaster, Nova Scotia, Pipes and Drums, Portapique, Vimy Ridge
pferguson | December 1, 2018
Discussions around the tables… …and so it is December…families…some partly reunited…peace on earth…discussions around the tables and hearths, turn from thoughts of yesterday and tomorrow…somehow today is recognized as a turn away from present conversations…Well today is a new day..but conversations soon pick up from whence they start. The Armistice…soon to be eclipsed by interactions […]
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Tags: Armistice, Hall of Mirrors, Home, Hôtel des Réservoirs, Hôtel Trianon Palace, Paris, Quai d'Orsay (Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Paris), Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919), Versailles
pferguson | November 10, 2018
…were for the healing of the nations Revelations XXII.2 Today we gather our thoughts before the day ahead. Tomorrow…what will we feel…what is to be…? Still – this day, is a chance for gathering our thoughts before the morrow…it is a chance to pause previous to the emotions of the current ending. I often speak […]
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Tags: Captain Richard Leonard Hoare, Gommecourt British Cemetery No. 2, Healing, Home, Hope, Laura Hoare, Lest We Forget, Memorialization, Peace, Rebuilding, Revelations XXII.2, Tree Leaves
pferguson | October 7, 2018
As Families Do An October evening in Chilliwack. The Richardson family, mother and father, family – without the sounds of overseas. Perhaps within their chairs, cups of tea and Dundee cake. The crackle from a fireplace and as families do talking of their day. Yet within their speak, the name of one – James – […]
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Tags: 8 October 1916, Chilliwack, David Richardson, Emma Stevens, Family, Home, James Cleland Richardson, Keep the Home Fires Burning, Mary Richardson
pferguson | February 17, 2018
Will Ye Go Lassie Go Though perhaps this tune has wandered to my ears sometime in my past, it was only recently when the tune was featured in Their Finest that the melody, sung by actor Bill Nighy, has become anchored to my person. That anchor comes, not only in the form of the lyric […]
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Tags: 1940, 51st Highland Division, Bill Nighy, Dunkirk, Family, Film History, Francis McPeake, Home, St. Valery, The Regiment, Their Finest, Wild Mountain Thyme, Will Ye Go Lassie Go