Tag Archives: Hendrik Slegtenhorst

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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