Life On The Periphery

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I like technology. I like toys, bells, and whistles. I just don’t have very many. My car is 16 years old. It runs, which is all that matters but lately, I find myself longing for built-in GPS, Bluetooth, and a backup camera. It may have to do with getting older, or general frustration at not having the fun stuff like everyone else, or ahttp://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2020/10/can-you-hear-me-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Constance Brewer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980619.post-1293220952911383106Sun, 17 May 2020 20:12:00 +00002020-05-17T14:12:56.744-06:00essayletting gophilosophical ramblingThe Renaissance Woman Today I can't be good at everything Imagine my surprise when I came to this realization. Society says we should strive for perfection in all things. To boldly go where no writer/artist/knitter/printer has gone before. To be different, unique. Special.  Fine and dandy, but I call bullshit.  Extroverts and Type A personalities run the world. They push. And push. More, better, http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-renaissance-woman-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Constance Brewer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980619.post-3489019613397722239Sun, 23 Feb 2020 21:42:00 +00002020-02-23T14:42:06.371-07:00essayPolitical AgendasWhy I Don't Write Political Poetry Sometimes I think too much. That is my main excuse for not writing political poetry. I'm an after thinker. I'm non-confrontational. By the time I've absorbed the daily news cycle and thought about its background and implications, weeks have passed.  I'm not timely.   In today's fast-moving poetic world some people can write a poem on the current news by the end of the http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-i-dont-write-political-poetry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Constance Brewer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980619.post-3758760299831048737Fri, 24 Jan 2020 01:29:00 +00002020-01-23T18:29:31.948-07:00essayphilosophical ramblingwritingBAM! KAPOW! SPLATT! THWACK! (Thank you, 60's Batman, for the onomatopoeia.) Why does the answer to everything seem to be violence? Books, movies, real life. Blood, gore, guns. Maybe I'm too much a wuss for this. I don't believe every problem needs to be solved by punching, shooting, blowing up, or some form of superhero power liberally applied. It's inescapable. In my first fantasy novel, I gave one of http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2020/01/bam-kapow-splatt-thwack.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Constance Brewer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980619.post-7971726241977223729Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:29:00 +00002019-12-27T09:29:01.585-07:00essayKindlereadingThe Kindle Dilemma <!--[if gte mso 9]> http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2019/05/digging-weeds-from-story-garden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Constance Brewer)0