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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... Once I had tasted other foods and became healthier, I could not go back to a restrictive diet. I'm certainly not saying that now I am the enlightened one. Far from it. Every time a curtain parts to show me another aspect of truth, it ...
... Once I had tasted other foods and became healthier, I could not go back to a restrictive diet. I'm certainly not saying that now I am the enlightened one. Far from it. Every time a curtain parts to show me another aspect of truth, it ...
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... Once a neighbor called to say that when she'd opened her front door, my goat (Olivia) had bolted into the house and leapt onto her couch. Sometimes we didn't know where the heck the animals had wandered off to, and spent hours combing ...
... Once a neighbor called to say that when she'd opened her front door, my goat (Olivia) had bolted into the house and leapt onto her couch. Sometimes we didn't know where the heck the animals had wandered off to, and spent hours combing ...
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... once life-giving farmland—the topsoil beneath the pavement and concrete is unsurpassed in its loaminess. A few unpolluted spots in the bay remain to testify of the once-thriving clamming and fishing communities along the coast. My ...
... once life-giving farmland—the topsoil beneath the pavement and concrete is unsurpassed in its loaminess. A few unpolluted spots in the bay remain to testify of the once-thriving clamming and fishing communities along the coast. My ...
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... once he'd worked through most of his “issues,” dumped them in favor of subjects that genuinely interested him. He bought bookcases and has slowly filled them with literature present and past; his rock-and-roll albums were joined by the ...
... once he'd worked through most of his “issues,” dumped them in favor of subjects that genuinely interested him. He bought bookcases and has slowly filled them with literature present and past; his rock-and-roll albums were joined by the ...
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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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