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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... 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 After a few years, the “Yankee” felt outdated.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 previous renaming—that more accurately represented what I'd grown into as a writer. Rural ...
... 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 After a few years, the “Yankee” felt outdated.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 previous renaming—that more accurately represented what I'd grown into as a writer. Rural ...
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... thought about inviting these holler folks to a clambake someday to reciprocate the cultural experience. At a clambake, hot coals are spread across the bottom of a wide hole. Then the clams, crabs and/ or lobsters are put in, and buried ...
... thought about inviting these holler folks to a clambake someday to reciprocate the cultural experience. At a clambake, hot coals are spread across the bottom of a wide hole. Then the clams, crabs and/ or lobsters are put in, and buried ...
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... thought ofthefamily less as the determining influ— ence hy which we are formed and more the raw material from which we can make a life? — Thomas Moore A Valentine Test of Love It was the perfect Valentine's 19 Behind These Doors.
... thought ofthefamily less as the determining influ— ence hy which we are formed and more the raw material from which we can make a life? — Thomas Moore A Valentine Test of Love It was the perfect Valentine's 19 Behind These Doors.
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... thought I had reached, but I sure worked at it. And so I too felt like a failure. Maybe if Dad had taken the care to get to know each of us, what our innate gifts were, our desires and sources of motivation and enjoyment, and nurtured ...
... thought I had reached, but I sure worked at it. And so I too felt like a failure. Maybe if Dad had taken the care to get to know each of us, what our innate gifts were, our desires and sources of motivation and enjoyment, and nurtured ...
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... thought about those layers of dirt and wax yesterday, when someone said to me that families keep their secrets for years and just cover them up and go on. It's true. You hear people sometimes speak of the dead as though they were saints ...
... thought about those layers of dirt and wax yesterday, when someone said to me that families keep their secrets for years and just cover them up and go on. It's true. You hear people sometimes speak of the dead as though they were saints ...
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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