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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... husband and I had planned and saved for months, sold most of our earthly possessions and packed what was left on a flatbed truck covered with a canvas tarp. During the months of our preparation, seasoned travelers offered much advice ...
... husband and I had planned and saved for months, sold most of our earthly possessions and packed what was left on a flatbed truck covered with a canvas tarp. During the months of our preparation, seasoned travelers offered much advice ...
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... husband and I spent hours poring over Mother Earth News and Organic Gardening magazines. I imagined myself milking the cow, churning butter, baking bread in a woodstove, canning apples and peaches from the orchard. Buying acreage on ...
... husband and I spent hours poring over Mother Earth News and Organic Gardening magazines. I imagined myself milking the cow, churning butter, baking bread in a woodstove, canning apples and peaches from the orchard. Buying acreage on ...
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... husband put an engine on the archaic David Bradley plow we found on the property, but I think shoveling would have been easier. And I never knew that string beans actually had strings on them. I just followed the cookbook's freezing ...
... husband put an engine on the archaic David Bradley plow we found on the property, but I think shoveling would have been easier. And I never knew that string beans actually had strings on them. I just followed the cookbook's freezing ...
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... husband and children left with me immediately. Dad died an hour before our arrival. This is the hardest part of living away from family. After both my parents' deaths I was able to spend only a few days with my brother and sisters ...
... husband and children left with me immediately. Dad died an hour before our arrival. This is the hardest part of living away from family. After both my parents' deaths I was able to spend only a few days with my brother and sisters ...
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... husbands sometimes circulate for weeks afterwards. When I arrived at this party, I was greeted by a rattlesnake writhing on the ground near the back deck. Folks were gathered around watching it. This aroused my suspicions, because I ...
... husbands sometimes circulate for weeks afterwards. When I arrived at this party, I was greeted by a rattlesnake writhing on the ground near the back deck. Folks were gathered around watching it. This aroused my suspicions, because I ...
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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