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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... watched us ignorant Yankees with a chuckle. And the garden. Being organically inclined, we wouldn't spray with chemicals, so rabbits and bugs devoured much of our “crop.” Squishing beetles with my fingers got old fast. The soil was ...
... watched us ignorant Yankees with a chuckle. And the garden. Being organically inclined, we wouldn't spray with chemicals, so rabbits and bugs devoured much of our “crop.” Squishing beetles with my fingers got old fast. The soil was ...
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... watching it. This aroused my suspicions, because I know most holler people (most sane people) have a deathly fear of snakes of any type. As it turned out, the viper had been beheaded hours before, a fact it didn't seem to be aware of ...
... watching it. This aroused my suspicions, because I know most holler people (most sane people) have a deathly fear of snakes of any type. As it turned out, the viper had been beheaded hours before, a fact it didn't seem to be aware of ...
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... watching the sun set over my neighbor's horse pasture, unless it's walking down our dirt road along the Middle River. All I miss is the water and beaches. Growing up, my sense of direction was defined by the Long Island Sound directly ...
... watching the sun set over my neighbor's horse pasture, unless it's walking down our dirt road along the Middle River. All I miss is the water and beaches. Growing up, my sense of direction was defined by the Long Island Sound directly ...
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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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