Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

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Synopsis

We are the makers of subcultures. Of all our communities, where are we the happiest? As an award-winning Southern journalist, Dianne Poston Owens has learned a thing or two about people and community – that people want to know their lives matter, their pets won’t rat them out, and that they are not alone. An observer and recorder of people, places and things, she understands that every day is a new day, and each day is played out in tandem and in gathering. Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane is a collection of short essays intended to be read for inspiration and encouragement. Owens poses questions and offers photographs that allow readers the opportunity to reflect and pause before forging ahead. Written with charming wit, Southern twang and a deepness that is drawn out by nature, Owens explores what we see, say, and choose, and how we connect to the people we interact with in the “communities” in which we gather.

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Author Biography

Dianne Poston Owens is a former newspaper reporter, columnist and editor, serving rural communities in South Carolina for more than 30 years. Though she wandered from her roots, she now lives in the same neck of the woods that her family has lived and died on for more than 250 years ... Along with two goats, at least four chickens, two cats and whatever else lives in the woods!

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The world can keep its crap!

How's it going? It's Friday when I"m writing this and I'm filled with hope for the weekend. I have some plans. Hope all goes well. That sort of thing. In my book "Gathering, Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane," I write about motivation. Where it comes from, where it goes. You can see an excerpt of that essay, but to read the rest of the story, you'll have to get the book! Suffice it to say, for this weekend, the world can keep its crap! I've got plans ... and I will choose my disposition ... I will be happy. I will find joy. I hope you do, too! In the meantime, be the joy the world needs!

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Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

Motivation

Be the sunshine on the cloudy day. Be the smile in the elevator. Be sincere in a world of insincerity. How do you know tomorrow will be better? Plant flowers today.

Somewhere along the way I captured the idea that I am responsible for being that which I think is needed. I need motivation. Be the motivation. I need a hug, be the hug. And so on. And yet, we’re in this thing together. So I looked to the left and found my motivation.

It started with the man on the treadmill next to me at the gym in Lake City. I don’t know him. But he embodies motivation, determination and pace, and the fact that we get to choose our dispositions.

The world craps on us, often. Some weeks, it feels like we’re crapped on each hour of every day. There is always something seeking to steal our joy. Well from hence forth, the world can’t have my joy and it can keep its crap!

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Dianne Poston Owens

Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

Synopsis

Author Biography

Author Insight

The world can keep its crap!

Book Excerpt

Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

Motivation

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