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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... be beneficial. This is true of jobs, relationships, religions, clubs, hobbies, sports. When everything and everyone we read and watch and listen to and associate with are all of the same ilk, we cease xiv Stain the Water Clear.
... be beneficial. This is true of jobs, relationships, religions, clubs, hobbies, sports. When everything and everyone we read and watch and listen to and associate with are all of the same ilk, we cease xiv Stain the Water Clear.
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... everything in Boston—walls, 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 ...
... everything in Boston—walls, 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 ...
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... everything. The family must maintain an aura of impeccability. Lacking that, we must have explanations, even if they are wrong. We have no skeletons. Heck, we don't even have closets. I asked Aunt Clara, who still has her thick German ...
... everything. The family must maintain an aura of impeccability. Lacking that, we must have explanations, even if they are wrong. We have no skeletons. Heck, we don't even have closets. I asked Aunt Clara, who still has her thick German ...
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... everything coming and going or to be accosted by perverts on the street. No, I do not miss Long Island, only the way it used to be. And I hope to never have to say that about the Shenandoah Valley. Yankee Doodlin' 17.
... everything coming and going or to be accosted by perverts on the street. No, I do not miss Long Island, only the way it used to be. And I hope to never have to say that about the Shenandoah Valley. Yankee Doodlin' 17.
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... everything but follow the manufacturer's instructions. That's for people who cannot think for themselves. Their products are a ripoff. I can find a better, cheaper way to do it. Yeah, a way that doesn't work. After awhile, scrubbing ...
... everything but follow the manufacturer's instructions. That's for people who cannot think for themselves. Their products are a ripoff. I can find a better, cheaper way to do it. Yeah, a way that doesn't work. After awhile, scrubbing ...
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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