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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... better get outta my way. Here I come...” I never did see any snakes, just a worm every now and then. Then we had this great idea to raise calves bought at a dairy farm. I saw myself rising early, skipping to the barn and serenely ...
... better get outta my way. Here I come...” I never did see any snakes, just a worm every now and then. Then we had this great idea to raise calves bought at a dairy farm. I saw myself rising early, skipping to the barn and serenely ...
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... location becomes exclusive and self-identifying, the search is lost altogether.” There are so many other places to be. It is good to go see them. It is good to come home. A Place for Me I like it better here than Yankee Doodlin' 15.
... location becomes exclusive and self-identifying, the search is lost altogether.” There are so many other places to be. It is good to go see them. It is good to come home. A Place for Me I like it better here than Yankee Doodlin' 15.
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... better here than Long Island. This occurs to me while driving the back roads of the Shenandoah Valley. Even after 23 years of living here, I have not tired of the scenery: of Angus herds grazing on a grassy slope, of patchwork fields ...
... better here than Long Island. This occurs to me while driving the back roads of the Shenandoah Valley. Even after 23 years of living here, I have not tired of the scenery: of Angus herds grazing on a grassy slope, of patchwork fields ...
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... better. Edible was the goal. When it's about doubled in size, I push my fist into the airy dough, cut it in half with a long serrated knife, roll each half out, shape them into loaves to rise again, then place them into a warm oven ...
... better. Edible was the goal. When it's about doubled in size, I push my fist into the airy dough, cut it in half with a long serrated knife, roll each half out, shape them into loaves to rise again, then place them into a warm oven ...
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... better, cheaper way to do it. Yeah, a way that doesn't work. After awhile, scrubbing became so frustrating I stopped doing it and began using a mop-and-wax type product. “No rinsing!” No, no rinsing. Just push the dirt around and wax ...
... better, cheaper way to do it. Yeah, a way that doesn't work. After awhile, scrubbing became so frustrating I stopped doing it and began using a mop-and-wax type product. “No rinsing!” No, no rinsing. Just push the dirt around and wax ...
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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