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Golden Shadows – Despair and the Music of the Companionship of the World
The Lost Arias of Henk van Strijk, my third manuscript of poetry, was completed in July, 2011, in Peace River, Alberta. It was begun in the summer of 2009 when I returned to Vancouver after having spent three years as … Continue reading
Posted in Golden Shadows, Writing
Tagged Aristotle, Canada, Charles Dickens, Gareth Davies, Golden Shadows, Gustav Mahler, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Music, Norman Lebrecht, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, San Francisco, Shostakovich, St. Stephen New Brunswick, Vancouver, W. Somerset Maugham, Wendy Lesser
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24-27 August 2007 – Grand Manan, NB
Friday, 24 August 2007, 9:18 am, Seal Cove, Grand Manan, NB Away from the house just after 9:30 a.m., and at the ferry dock in Blacks Harbour by 10:30. Fine crossing, with two sightings of whales; although the ferry was an … Continue reading
Posted in 05 Years Ago, New Brunswick
Tagged Blacks Harbour New Brunswick, Canada, Chief administrative officer, Grand Harbour, Grand Manan, Grand Manan ferry, Grand Manan Island, Grand Manan NB, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Mortal Dreams of the Demigod, New Brunswick, outdoors, Seal Cove, Travel
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Tax Dollars and Sense
Civil Thoughts Series, No. 20 Courier Weekend (St. Stephen, NB), 31/41, A-5, 28 November 2008 . Municipalities obtain very little cash from the province. In fact, only about 9% of municipal revenues derive from transfer payments. The bulk of municipal … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Thoughts, Taxation
Tagged Canada, Chief administrative officer, Democracy, fiscal gap, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, International bridge, Jean-Guy Finn, Local government, Municipal revenues, NAFTA, New Brunswick, Property tax, property tax revenues, Provincial grants, St. Stephen New Brunswick, Transfer payments
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Use and Abuse of Political Power
Civil Thoughts Series, No. 23 The Saint Croix Courier (St. Stephen, NB), 144/18, A-5, 3 February 2009 . Power as Persuasion Organizational power is the political use of influence. It is based on interdependence of relationship; however, power’s influence changes … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Thoughts, Community Identity
Tagged Chief administrative officer, Coercive power, Democracy, Empowerment, Expert power, Francis Bacon, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Information power, Lao Tzu, Leadership, Legitimate power, Michel de Montaigne, Politics, Power, Referent power, Reward power, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Table of Contents – Local Government
“On Being a CAO in Canada,” Municipal World (St. Thomas, ON), 122/10, 13 (October 2012). “Leaders,” Civil Thoughts Series, Bowen Island Times (Bowen Island, BC), 2/11, 4, 25 June 2010. “Policy, politics and affordable housing,” Civil Thoughts Series, Bowen Island Times (Bowen Island, BC), 2/10, … Continue reading
Music – 52 Works Recently Studied
Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet 7 in f♯, Op. 108 (1960). Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet 8 in c, Op. 110 (1960). - The black ghost of nothingness emerging in the half-shadows of the silhouette of emptiness. Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet 7 in … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Dmitri Shostakovich, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 3, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 4, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 5, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 6, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 7, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 8, Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony 4, Donald Mitchell, Eric Blom, Frederick Delius, Hans Keller, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, It is good here, Joseph Stalin, Music, Peter Tchaikovsky, Piano Quintet, Robert Schumann, Robert Schumann Piano Quartet, Robert Schumann Piano Quintet, Sergei Rachmaninov, String quartet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zdes' Horosho
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Spirits
The Lost Arias of Henk van Strijk, 2:20 . I descend into the drinking of destiny: Personal control abdicated by its presence; Fate that will wake on the doorstep of The sanatorium of the mind, it And the rest of … Continue reading
