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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... run you become stronger and wiser. ” (LaurieC, Broadway, Va.) When I joined the staff at the newspaper later that year, the managing editor informed me they would no longer pay me to write columns. I was free to continue, though, if I ...
... run you become stronger and wiser. ” (LaurieC, Broadway, Va.) When I joined the staff at the newspaper later that year, the managing editor informed me they would no longer pay me to write columns. I was free to continue, though, if I ...
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... run. The guy across the street must've had 20,000 hunting dogs roaming around. After a few clashes with them chasing and barking and howling at me, I stopped running. For months. Finally, though, I became determined to run, and to hell ...
... run. The guy across the street must've had 20,000 hunting dogs roaming around. After a few clashes with them chasing and barking and howling at me, I stopped running. For months. Finally, though, I became determined to run, and to hell ...
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... run to, to be alone or alone with God. The horizon was water and sky to eternity. Now I lift up my eyes to the hills, from where my help comes. The mountains are more graspable, definable, solid. They may not be eternal, but they are ...
... run to, to be alone or alone with God. The horizon was water and sky to eternity. Now I lift up my eyes to the hills, from where my help comes. The mountains are more graspable, definable, solid. They may not be eternal, but they are ...
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... white photographs. He started running, became a vegetarian and lost a hundred pounds. He also learned to contra dance. He found it difficult to continue hanging around with old friends whose only interest was drinking Behind These Doors 23.
... white photographs. He started running, became a vegetarian and lost a hundred pounds. He also learned to contra dance. He found it difficult to continue hanging around with old friends whose only interest was drinking Behind These Doors 23.
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... run—out—of. But the selection is limited and the prices are generally higher. Even so, I have this theory that my money has more value there because it's more valued by the folks who run the store and work there. My hard—earned cash is ...
... run—out—of. But the selection is limited and the prices are generally higher. Even so, I have this theory that my money has more value there because it's more valued by the folks who run the store and work there. My hard—earned cash is ...
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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