Stain the Water Clear: A Collection of Rural Pen and Yankee Doodlin' Columns, 1993-2002iUniverse, 13.01.2003 - 218 Seiten For years, readers of Luanne Austins Rural Pen column in the Daily News-Record have been asking for a compilation of her work. Here it is. Stain the Water Clear is a collection spanning 10 years. Her first Southern Yankee writings focused on the transplanted life of a young woman who had moved from her native New York to the South. Yankee Doodlin' continued on this theme, but expanded to family life, relationships and meditations on life. Finally, the Rural Pen pieces are those of a writer who has found her voice, addressing a range of topics, from politics to religion, to love and womens issues, to meditations on nature and spirituality .The name of the column and this book come from William Blakes Songs of Innocence: And I made a rural pen, And I staind the water clear |
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... find the soul you have missed, IVithin yourself when you return him than/es. ” —Robert Browning Over the years, many folks have asked for a book of my columns. While I was always flattered by this request, I did not want to end up with ...
... find the soul you have missed, IVithin yourself when you return him than/es. ” —Robert Browning Over the years, many folks have asked for a book of my columns. While I was always flattered by this request, I did not want to end up with ...
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... find my family's name in the history records of the Shenandoah Valley. We have no headstones here, no “home place” to return to, no great—grands who were kicked off the park or who founded a church or business. Yet my children have ...
... find my family's name in the history records of the Shenandoah Valley. We have no headstones here, no “home place” to return to, no great—grands who were kicked off the park or who founded a church or business. Yet my children have ...
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... find our place. However, in Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore points out, “What if we thought of the family less as the determining influence by which we are formed and more the raw material from which we can make a life?” Yes. I'm sure my ...
... find our place. However, in Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore points out, “What if we thought of the family less as the determining influence by which we are formed and more the raw material from which we can make a life?” Yes. I'm sure my ...
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... find a better, cheaper way to do it. Yeah, a way that doesn't work. After awhile, scrubbing became so frustrating I stopped doing it and began using a mop—and—wax type product. “No rinsing!” No, no rinsing. Just push the dirt around and ...
... find a better, cheaper way to do it. Yeah, a way that doesn't work. After awhile, scrubbing became so frustrating I stopped doing it and began using a mop—and—wax type product. “No rinsing!” No, no rinsing. Just push the dirt around and ...
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Inhalt
19 | |
Of Humans and Being | 51 |
Christmas | 69 |
Things We Have Passed | 87 |
Am I in Sync? | 113 |
Body Language | 145 |
Through Darkness Up to God | 175 |
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