Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

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Synopsis

A Southern journalist, Dianne Poston Owens has learned a thing of 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. As 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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Tis the season of Love

If Christmas, and the holiday season that ends each year, mean anything, they mean love. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none ... William Shakespeare in All's Well that Ends Well. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own ... Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land. Greater love hath no man, than to lay down his life for a friend. Tis the Season. I know God loves me, as I say in an essay in Gathering, Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane, because of English muffins. What tells you that you are loved? How do you show love to others? Here, at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, show love. Not to get love, but to just show love. Maybe it'll catch on, in this season and the seasons to come. Love to you all!

Book Excerpt

Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

He loved us and I understood that, because there were English muffins with raisins and cinnamon and they were given to me freely. Maybe that’s why those English muffins tasted so good. It wasn’t just the sweetness of the cinnamon and the savory raisins filled with juiciness. It was because they were provided for me. They made me feel loved, cared for. Love. Love is a free English muffin.

God-given bread is always best. The muffins were a blessing to us. A gift. They would have spoiled and gone to waste. Instead, we were the ones spoiled.

When pinching pennies, you can never beat the price of a gift. God knows the desires of our hearts. All of them. Even the English muffin ones.

When has the universe sent something back to you?

What shows love to you?

How do you show love?

Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

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Dianne Poston Owens

Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

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Author Biography

Author Insight

Tis the season of Love

Book Excerpt

Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

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