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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... woman, moving to the Shenandoah Valley was the realization of my longings. My husband and I had planned and saved for months, sold most of our earthly possessions and packed what was left on a flatbed truck covered with a canvas tarp ...
... woman, moving to the Shenandoah Valley was the realization of my longings. My husband and I had planned and saved for months, sold most of our earthly possessions and packed what was left on a flatbed truck covered with a canvas tarp ...
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... woman's eyes and say these things, to make these promises. He's 38, and you might say, well, it's about time. But that's how much time it took. At the reception, my place at the table was between the aunts of my youth, one from each ...
... woman's eyes and say these things, to make these promises. He's 38, and you might say, well, it's about time. But that's how much time it took. At the reception, my place at the table was between the aunts of my youth, one from each ...
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... women, he met his future wife at a contra dance convention and married her last June. Kevin is an exception, I think ... woman president of the U.S. and bought me books and magazines that were way over my head. I never could live up to ...
... women, he met his future wife at a contra dance convention and married her last June. Kevin is an exception, I think ... woman president of the U.S. and bought me books and magazines that were way over my head. I never could live up to ...
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... women and men, old and young, homemakers and shopkeepers. In hushed voice I pulled people aside and asked for advice, nodding with hope with each new solution. But trying their suggestions—some radical—yielded no improvement. I spent a ...
... women and men, old and young, homemakers and shopkeepers. In hushed voice I pulled people aside and asked for advice, nodding with hope with each new solution. But trying their suggestions—some radical—yielded no improvement. I spent a ...
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... women's rights. And so we as women have had to decide, do we want our floor clean? Do we want men to truly respect women? Or do we want superficial laws enacted to make it appear that we're respected? And we see it in our own lives ...
... women's rights. And so we as women have had to decide, do we want our floor clean? Do we want men to truly respect women? Or do we want superficial laws enacted to make it appear that we're respected? And we see it in our own lives ...
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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