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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... morning when, instead of hearing about the weekend murders and robberies, and how far the traffic was backed up on the Long Island Expressway, we heard Homer reporting on hog prices and people's birthdays and telling Stain the Water Clear ...
... morning when, instead of hearing about the weekend murders and robberies, and how far the traffic was backed up on the Long Island Expressway, we heard Homer reporting on hog prices and people's birthdays and telling Stain the Water Clear ...
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... morning we left. I felt uneasy leaving him. He was in and out of the hospital for two months after that, suffering stroke after stroke. I knew going up there with my kids would be too burdensome for everyone. If I went alone, what would ...
... morning we left. I felt uneasy leaving him. He was in and out of the hospital for two months after that, suffering stroke after stroke. I knew going up there with my kids would be too burdensome for everyone. If I went alone, what would ...
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... mornings before, down the hole on the squealing escalator to the dank tunnel. A young child of perhaps 3 had kicked and screamed that day, her refusal reminding us that humans were not naturally inclined to this. Like the New York ...
... mornings before, down the hole on the squealing escalator to the dank tunnel. A young child of perhaps 3 had kicked and screamed that day, her refusal reminding us that humans were not naturally inclined to this. Like the New York ...
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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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