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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... Mountain to the town of Shenandoah (I didn't see the mountain on the map), our soon—to—die engine could have used a few more horses. As it was, we forged our way over in first gear at five mph. At the top, a glorious site welcomed us to ...
... Mountain to the town of Shenandoah (I didn't see the mountain on the map), our soon—to—die engine could have used a few more horses. As it was, we forged our way over in first gear at five mph. At the top, a glorious site welcomed us to ...
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... 'd opened her front door, my goat (Olivia) had bolted into the house and leapt onto her couch. Sometimes We didn't know Where the heck the animals had wandered off to, and spent hours combing the mountains for 4 Stain the Water Clear.
... 'd opened her front door, my goat (Olivia) had bolted into the house and leapt onto her couch. Sometimes We didn't know Where the heck the animals had wandered off to, and spent hours combing the mountains for 4 Stain the Water Clear.
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... mountains for them. The hollow folks must've watched us ignorant Yankees with a chuckle. And the garden. Being organically inclined, we wouldn't spray with chemicals, so rabbits and bugs devoured much of our “crop.” Squish— ing beetles ...
... mountains for them. The hollow folks must've watched us ignorant Yankees with a chuckle. And the garden. Being organically inclined, we wouldn't spray with chemicals, so rabbits and bugs devoured much of our “crop.” Squish— ing beetles ...
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... mountain lions, wildebeest—all, in my imagination at least, waiting to tear me t pieces with every step. I felt like Dorothy walking down the yellow brick road: “Lions and tigers and bears, oh, my!” The most dangerous critters I came ...
... mountain lions, wildebeest—all, in my imagination at least, waiting to tear me t pieces with every step. I felt like Dorothy walking down the yellow brick road: “Lions and tigers and bears, oh, my!” The most dangerous critters I came ...
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... If I had my druthers, all my relatives would move to Washington, D.C., I'd see them more often, but not too much. Because I do still miss them sometimes. The Holler Party After living in these mountains for twelve Yankee Doodlin ' 9.
... If I had my druthers, all my relatives would move to Washington, D.C., I'd see them more often, but not too much. Because I do still miss them sometimes. The Holler Party After living in these mountains for twelve Yankee Doodlin ' 9.
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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