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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... eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” Reading Blake's poetry felt like an act of rebellion. But I kept reading because his words touched something deep inside me, expressed something in me I did not know was there. The more I read, the ...
... eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” Reading Blake's poetry felt like an act of rebellion. But I kept reading because his words touched something deep inside me, expressed something in me I did not know was there. The more I read, the ...
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... eyes straight ahead. Nobody bothers you. I may have been street-wise, but I definitely was not countrywise when I moved to this hollow. Moving to the country was such a euphoric contemplation—I didn't realize the fears that lay within ...
... eyes straight ahead. Nobody bothers you. I may have been street-wise, but I definitely was not countrywise when I moved to this hollow. Moving to the country was such a euphoric contemplation—I didn't realize the fears that lay within ...
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... run, and to hell with the dogs. A deep instinct rose to my consciousness: keep a brisk pace, posture erect, eyes straight ahead. The dogs never bothered me. Moving Away from Mom and Dad Living away from family Yankee Doodlin' 7.
... run, and to hell with the dogs. A deep instinct rose to my consciousness: keep a brisk pace, posture erect, eyes straight ahead. The dogs never bothered me. Moving Away from Mom and Dad Living away from family Yankee Doodlin' 7.
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... eyes and say these 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 ...
... eyes and say these 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 ...
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... eyes to the hills, from where my help comes. The mountains are more graspable, definable, solid. They may not be eternal, but they are ancient, majestic and...there. I have only to stroll up the hill behind my house to see all three ...
... eyes to the hills, from where my help comes. The mountains are more graspable, definable, solid. They may not be eternal, but they are ancient, majestic and...there. I have only to stroll up the hill behind my house to see all three ...
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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