pferguson | September 24, 2021
Gurkha VC Statue in Aldershot Learning of a new soldier Victoria Cross statue, to be unveiled on Saturday 25 September 2021, has brought back memories of my work with the Piper James Cleland Richardson VC Statue Committee in Chilliwack, B.C. Knowing the many hours it has taken working with a team dedicated to seeing the […]
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Tags: 2nd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles, Battle of Loos, Film, Gurkha Regiment, Kulbir Thapa Magar, Piper Daniel Laidlaw VC, Piper James Cleland Richardson VC, Statue, Victoria Cross
pferguson | January 16, 2021
Pen and Key The quiet suggests a slight hint of echo within my ears. They too…like all of self are searching, my mind races towards an endless sea of pages, facing not upwards but viewed from their edges. Within the constant turning only the blur of ideas. No story…no pictures…only endless notes posted haphazard to […]
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Tags: Andrew Stanton, COVID-19, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Film, John Carter, Music, Storytelling, The 39 Steps, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Baron, U-2, V for Vendetta
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 | May 7, 2017
Echo 1 Finding Tales within the Mortar The days turn warm and the flowers come out sharing their colours for all of us who walk by, as steadfast pollinators dance between petals. Their steady hum another song to this ear. I watch as a robin on duty, fleet of foot, tilts its head towards the […]
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Tags: David Lean, Echo, Echoes, Film, François Ozon, Frantz, Imagry, James Gray, Lawrence of Arabia, Lone Scherfig, Mortar, Storytelling, The Lost City of Z, Their Finest, Vision
pferguson | January 5, 2016
Bridge of Spies and my Zweibrücken (Two Bridges) I step into the cold December night and wander towards the theatre. Tonight was to have been a blog about prisoners of war of the 16th Battalion CEF, but as I watch the blog become scrambled across the page I realize tonight is not the time to sort […]
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Tags: 3rd Fighter WIng, Atomic Bomb Drills, Based on True Events, Berlin Wall, Beware of Mr. Baker, Bridge of Spies, Cold War, Film, Four-Power Authorities, France, Francis Gary Powers, Frederic Pryor, Germany, Iron Curtain, James B. Donovan, Mark Rylance, Mission: Impossible Rogue - Nation, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Turner, Nuremberg Trials, Prisoners of War, RCAF, Rudolf Able, Searching for Sugar Man, Shadows, Spandau Prison, SPECTRE, Spies, Spy, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, Tom Hanks, United Kingdom, USA, USSR, Zweibrucken