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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... believe they asked me, a bona fide, died—in—the—wool, arrogant, know—it—all Yankee, to sing? This was a most gracious gesture of Southern hospitality. “Can you play 'How Does It Feel to be One of the Beautiful People?” I asked. This did ...
... believe they asked me, a bona fide, died—in—the—wool, arrogant, know—it—all Yankee, to sing? This was a most gracious gesture of Southern hospitality. “Can you play 'How Does It Feel to be One of the Beautiful People?” I asked. This did ...
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... believe me, there was a time when I would not have. When I would have brushed it off—and so my brother and his bride—as not valid. It took a long time for my brother to come to this place, to be able to step into a church, to look into ...
... believe me, there was a time when I would not have. When I would have brushed it off—and so my brother and his bride—as not valid. It took a long time for my brother to come to this place, to be able to step into a church, to look into ...
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... believe that because Dad told everyone how brilliant I was growing up. Dad said I was going to be the first woman president of the US. and bought me books and magazines that were way over my head. I never could live up to the ...
... believe that because Dad told everyone how brilliant I was growing up. Dad said I was going to be the first woman president of the US. and bought me books and magazines that were way over my head. I never could live up to the ...
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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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