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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... floor of our furnitureless apartment and laughed and laughed. Over the next few months, we discovered many differences in northern and southern ways of living. Like being called “ma'am” and having to wait in the checkout line while the ...
... floor of our furnitureless apartment and laughed and laughed. Over the next few months, we discovered many differences in northern and southern ways of living. Like being called “ma'am” and having to wait in the checkout line while the ...
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... floor, signs, benches—is coated with filth and smells of unwashed humanity. My friend misses living in the Valley, and I wish for her not always to long for it, but to carry it with her. There are so many other places to be. It helps ...
... floor, signs, benches—is coated with filth and smells of unwashed humanity. My friend misses living in the Valley, and I wish for her not always to long for it, but to carry it with her. There are so many other places to be. It helps ...
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... . I was able to salvage the sad remaining cake layers, covering them with choc— olate icing. As my older daughter, Heidi, cut a slice later, she knocked her cake plate to the floor. It smashed. Some of Behind These Doors 21.
... . I was able to salvage the sad remaining cake layers, covering them with choc— olate icing. As my older daughter, Heidi, cut a slice later, she knocked her cake plate to the floor. It smashed. Some of Behind These Doors 21.
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... floor. It smashed. Some of the flying pieces landed with a poof into the flour still on the floor. I looked at the incident, then resumed eating my cake. My grandson, 6, said, “Aren't you going to yell at her? She should be in big, big ...
... floor. It smashed. Some of the flying pieces landed with a poof into the flour still on the floor. I looked at the incident, then resumed eating my cake. My grandson, 6, said, “Aren't you going to yell at her? She should be in big, big ...
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... floor is clean. You laugh, you who have not had the responsibility of keeping a floor clean for years and years, through blizzards and rain, Kool-Aid and mustard, dribbling babies and basketballs. A floor that gets dirtier and dirtier ...
... floor is clean. You laugh, you who have not had the responsibility of keeping a floor clean for years and years, through blizzards and rain, Kool-Aid and mustard, dribbling babies and basketballs. A floor that gets dirtier and dirtier ...
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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