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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... hard and it took longer to get used to this area than I had anticipated....To break away is hard but in the long run you become stronger and wiser.” (Laurie.C., Broadway, Va.) When I joined the staff at the newspaper later that year ...
... hard and it took longer to get used to this area than I had anticipated....To break away is hard but in the long run you become stronger and wiser.” (Laurie.C., Broadway, Va.) When I joined the staff at the newspaper later that year ...
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... hard too, but we've since devised our own customs. Our Thanksgiving tradition is to never spend it the same way twice. That first year we invited a poor man with no family to dinner. Sometimes we've had other transplanted families over ...
... hard too, but we've since devised our own customs. Our Thanksgiving tradition is to never spend it the same way twice. That first year we invited a poor man with no family to dinner. Sometimes we've had other transplanted families over ...
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... hard, not doughy-looking or soft. I flick it to listen for a hollow sound. After just a few minutes, it's ready for the knife. No butter necessary. As my tasters' mouths are filled with their first bite, they moan with pleasure. Such a ...
... hard, not doughy-looking or soft. I flick it to listen for a hollow sound. After just a few minutes, it's ready for the knife. No butter necessary. As my tasters' mouths are filled with their first bite, they moan with pleasure. Such a ...
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Inhalt
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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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