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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... Things We Have Passed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 AmIin Sync? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 113 Body Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
... Things We Have Passed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 AmIin Sync? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 113 Body Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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... things: family life, faith, American culture and anything else that happened to capture my thoughts. The letters kept coming. After a few years, the “Yankee” felt outdated. I chose another name—one that I'd been mulling over since the ...
... things: family life, faith, American culture and anything else that happened to capture my thoughts. The letters kept coming. After a few years, the “Yankee” felt outdated. I chose another name—one that I'd been mulling over since the ...
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... thing God invents: That's somewhat: and you 'll find the soul you have missed, IVithin yourself when you return him than/es. ” —Robert Browning Over the years, many folks have asked for a book of my columns. While I was always flattered ...
... thing God invents: That's somewhat: and you 'll find the soul you have missed, IVithin yourself when you return him than/es. ” —Robert Browning Over the years, many folks have asked for a book of my columns. While I was always flattered ...
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... things in my life, but this Was never one of them.” Besides the relatives' incredulity, We had one major problem—no fence. Well, I guess it was fence at one time, but it sure didn't keep the animals in. Once a neighbor called to say ...
... things in my life, but this Was never one of them.” Besides the relatives' incredulity, We had one major problem—no fence. Well, I guess it was fence at one time, but it sure didn't keep the animals in. Once a neighbor called to say ...
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... things, to make these promises. He's 38, and you might say, well, it's about time. But that's how much time it took. At the reception, my place at the table was between the aunts of my youth, one from each side of my family and now from ...
... things, to make these promises. He's 38, and you might say, well, it's about time. But that's how much time it took. At the reception, my place at the table was between the aunts of my youth, one from each side of my family and now from ...
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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