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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... felt would alert my old readers while freeing me to write on a broader range of topics. I'd exhausted the north/south issues and was ready to move on to other things: family life, faith, American culture and anything else that happened ...
... felt would alert my old readers while freeing me to write on a broader range of topics. I'd exhausted the north/south issues and was ready to move on to other things: family life, faith, American culture and anything else that happened ...
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... felt like an act of rebellion. But I kept reading because his words touched something deep inside me, expressed something in me I did not know was there. The more I read, the more I wanted. As I read Blake's poetry, and then that of ...
... felt like an act of rebellion. But I kept reading because his words touched something deep inside me, expressed something in me I did not know was there. The more I read, the more I wanted. As I read Blake's poetry, and then that of ...
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... felt like I'd been eating nothing but broccoli and carrots for a long time and suddenly had been introduced to the taste of chicken, and then potatoes, and apples and rice. Once I had tasted other foods and became healthier, I could not ...
... felt like I'd been eating nothing but broccoli and carrots for a long time and suddenly had been introduced to the taste of chicken, and then potatoes, and apples and rice. Once I had tasted other foods and became healthier, I could not ...
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... felt like Dorothy walking down the yellow brick road: “Lions and tigers and bears, oh, my!” The most dangerous critters I came across were red squirrels. My worst fear was of the hounds and beagles that stood in the way of my daily run ...
... felt like Dorothy walking down the yellow brick road: “Lions and tigers and bears, oh, my!” The most dangerous critters I came across were red squirrels. My worst fear was of the hounds and beagles that stood in the way of my daily run ...
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... felt little remorse at moving 500 miles away from my family. They had always kept their proper distance while remaining within reach. So I was surprised at how I missed them after we moved. Gazing north out my apartment window, crying ...
... felt little remorse at moving 500 miles away from my family. They had always kept their proper distance while remaining within reach. So I was surprised at how I missed them after we moved. Gazing north out my apartment window, crying ...
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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