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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... kids. My mother announced that I would never survive the “sultry” weather. People told my husband he'd never make more than $100 per week. And I was doomed to getting fat n fried chicken, lard-soaked grits and black-eyed peas. In spite ...
... kids. My mother announced that I would never survive the “sultry” weather. People told my husband he'd never make more than $100 per week. And I was doomed to getting fat n fried chicken, lard-soaked grits and black-eyed peas. In spite ...
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... kids would be too burdensome for everyone. If I went alone, what would I do with the kids? And do I really want to see him in this condition? When my stepmother called to say the doctor was taking Stain the Water Clear 8.
... kids would be too burdensome for everyone. If I went alone, what would I do with the kids? And do I really want to see him in this condition? When my stepmother called to say the doctor was taking Stain the Water Clear 8.
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... kid spills his milk at the dinner table you don't go into a big tirade about what a clumsy idiot the kid is. Remember that you sometimes spill things too: how do you like to be treated when that happens? The Golden Rule helps here. Do ...
... kid spills his milk at the dinner table you don't go into a big tirade about what a clumsy idiot the kid is. Remember that you sometimes spill things too: how do you like to be treated when that happens? The Golden Rule helps here. Do ...
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... everyday traffic. And every day justifying: He does it to me all the time, people need to be warned about her, their prices are a rip-off anyway, the kid wouldn't listen to me, he/she needs to change, I've always Stain the Water Clear 30.
... everyday traffic. And every day justifying: He does it to me all the time, people need to be warned about her, their prices are a rip-off anyway, the kid wouldn't listen to me, he/she needs to change, I've always Stain the Water Clear 30.
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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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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