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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... Stuff like that drove me crazy. But we like it here. In the hollow where we now live, when the lights go out on a moonless night, it is black. The silence used to keep me awake—I was accustomed to the sound of police sirens, train ...
... Stuff like that drove me crazy. But we like it here. In the hollow where we now live, when the lights go out on a moonless night, it is black. The silence used to keep me awake—I was accustomed to the sound of police sirens, train ...
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... stuff, I didn't volunteer my talents. Would you believe they asked me, a bona fide, died-in-the-wool, arrogant, know-it-all Yankee, to sing? This was a most gracious gesture of Southern hospitality. “Can you play 'How Does It Feel to be ...
... stuff, I didn't volunteer my talents. Would you believe they asked me, a bona fide, died-in-the-wool, arrogant, know-it-all Yankee, to sing? This was a most gracious gesture of Southern hospitality. “Can you play 'How Does It Feel to be ...
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... . My grandson, 6, said, “Aren't you going to yell at her? She should be in big, big trouble.” Heidi and I could not help but laugh. “Happy Valentine's day,” I said. The Bright Stuff I am so proud of him. My Stain the Water Clear 22.
... . My grandson, 6, said, “Aren't you going to yell at her? She should be in big, big trouble.” Heidi and I could not help but laugh. “Happy Valentine's day,” I said. The Bright Stuff I am so proud of him. My Stain the Water Clear 22.
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... Stuff. I am so proud of him. My brother, at 39, is graduating in a few weeks from the University of Massachusetts with a bachelor's degree in English. What makes me so proud is the obstacles he had to overcome on his way to this degree ...
... Stuff. I am so proud of him. My brother, at 39, is graduating in a few weeks from the University of Massachusetts with a bachelor's degree in English. What makes me so proud is the obstacles he had to overcome on his way to this degree ...
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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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