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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... friends warned me about snakes—creatures I'd seen only in movies and at the Bronx Zoo. Now I envisioned them slithering towards me from every direction. So I used some logic based on the old premise that “they're more afraid of you than ...
... friends warned me about snakes—creatures I'd seen only in movies and at the Bronx Zoo. Now I envisioned them slithering towards me from every direction. So I used some logic based on the old premise that “they're more afraid of you than ...
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... friends, reminded me of the seafood feasts I enjoyed “back home” on Long Island. Those who made their living off the Great South Bay would bring clams, crabs and lobsters to bake, boil and grill. I thought about inviting these holler ...
... friends, reminded me of the seafood feasts I enjoyed “back home” on Long Island. Those who made their living off the Great South Bay would bring clams, crabs and lobsters to bake, boil and grill. I thought about inviting these holler ...
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... friend would now be on the subway to downtown Boston. I went with her in my mind, as I had in deed two mornings before, down the hole on the squealing escalator to the dank tunnel. A young child of perhaps 3 had kicked and screamed that ...
... friend would now be on the subway to downtown Boston. I went with her in my mind, as I had in deed two mornings before, down the hole on the squealing escalator to the dank tunnel. A young child of perhaps 3 had kicked and screamed that ...
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... friend came to the Valley to attend college, she'd lived in Boston all her life. She'd known the same streets and houses, the same friends and family, the same beliefs and behaviors, all her life. When she returned “home” a year ago ...
... friend came to the Valley to attend college, she'd lived in Boston all her life. She'd known the same streets and houses, the same friends and family, the same beliefs and behaviors, all her life. When she returned “home” a year ago ...
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... friends at Waffle House and told them she'd had a tiff with me before leaving home. They were extremely interested in this, wondering what I had done to her. Rachel wondered why they were so interested, until they pointed out that she ...
... friends at Waffle House and told them she'd had a tiff with me before leaving home. They were extremely interested in this, wondering what I had done to her. Rachel wondered why they were so interested, until they pointed out that she ...
Inhalt
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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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