We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot
I grew up in North Carolina, in the Raleigh-Cary area, but I high-tailed it to a place with a more Northern sensibility as soon as possible. Only my tell-tale Southern accent belied my sense of belonging in the Washington, DC, metro area.
Who would have thought that after 60-plus years my dream of making art and writing, free of the pressures of a day job, would have splatted me smack onto the edge of state I was trying so hard not to hate!
By chance or by fate, I’m here, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It is foreign, yet familiar. I am knowing the place for the first time. And fitting right in, in spite of myself.
And therein lies a tale or two.
The newsletter title suggests a variety of contexts:
The Edge: On the edge of North Carolina’s coast
The Edge: “Don't push me ‘cause I'm close to the edge”- fromThe Message
The Edge: Not in the middle; in the margins
The Edge: Art bolder and edgier than traditional forms
The Edge: Edgewise Art – a creative partnership (with my wife)
Over the next months in this newsletter, I’ll be reflecting on what I’ve been reading and thinking, what I’m creating, and how I believe it all fits together and connects all of us in one way or another. (Yes, even the bifurcated north-south of my imagination.)
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Suzanne Scott Constantine has been a writer all of her life, and an exhibiting artist for more than 40 years. Her circuitous route through her work life and creative practice has included careers as a freelance writer, a continuity writer for TV/Radio, co-founder and co-owner of a communications business, a studio artist, and over the last two decades of work, a university professor. She has much to say, and she’s saying it.