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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... night, What immortal hand or 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 ...
... night, What immortal hand or 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 ...
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... night, it is black. The silence used to keep me awake—I was accustomed to the sound of police sirens, train whistles and screeching tires. Now the only sound is the lullaby of Naked Creek splashing its way to the Shenandoah River. It's ...
... night, it is black. The silence used to keep me awake—I was accustomed to the sound of police sirens, train whistles and screeching tires. Now the only sound is the lullaby of Naked Creek splashing its way to the Shenandoah River. It's ...
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... night I cooked fresh ones and what a surprise. My first venture into food preservation ended up in the compost heap. Now the chickens and pigs and goats are gone. We have horses and cows grazing in a (fenced) pasture. We never did plant ...
... night I cooked fresh ones and what a surprise. My first venture into food preservation ended up in the compost heap. Now the chickens and pigs and goats are gone. We have horses and cows grazing in a (fenced) pasture. We never did plant ...
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... night. Rumors of fights and jealous 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 ...
... night. Rumors of fights and jealous 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 ...
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... night in the Shenandoah Valley. They don't know what it's like to lock the doors of everything coming and going or to be accosted by perverts on the street. No, I do not miss Long Island, only the way it used to be. And I hope to never ...
... night in the Shenandoah Valley. They don't know what it's like to lock the doors of everything coming and going or to be accosted by perverts on the street. No, I do not miss Long Island, only the way it used to be. And I hope to never ...
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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