Cross Right into the Strangeness

This convenience writer comes from the travel tradition and exhorts all practitioners and dreamers to embrace whatever experience might come their way.I appreciate the joy and inclusiveness of this piece.

Convenience

especially adapted for

Tourists and Travellers 1

Cross right into the strangeness and see much of interest:

the curious pushing up against the beautiful

pushing up against the turmoil

pushing up against the glorious, the muddle,

the gleaming, the balmy, and the bloom.

Something at every turn, ever ready:

things seen in dreams.

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A Strong Wind is Important

Because of the chosen images, some convenience scholars theorize that this piece was created by a convenience artist familiar with transatlantic travel.Critics of this theory note that many people may have had access to the transatlantic travel literature used in this convenience.

An experienced traveler?

An armchair tourist?

In any case, the convenience references the need for a strong wind. This reference suggests that the convenience artist had some knowledge of the travel industry prior to the invention of the steamship in the late 18th century.

A Strong Wind

is Important to all leaving the old for something new;

especially for those who seek and

those who want different dreams and

those who are compelled toward Metamorphosis.

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Travel Convenience 18 - Tourists and Travellers in our Own Lives

Throughout Conveniences history, many Convenience writers have come from a tradition of traveling.Some writers have traveled extensively, some have been armchair travelers; many have found themselves between those two points on the traveling experience spectrum.This Convenience was clearly written by a woman with some experience, both in actual travel and in life.Her comments about tourists and travelers tell her readers that she is likely familiar with both, and that she recognizes a distinction between the two.Regardless of this distinction, she advises that her readers work with the inevitable changes in life.She suggests that accepting change will allow readers to inhabit their own lives and claim their own experiences.She explicitly states that she does not advocate settling for any or all circumstances. She advocates finding options and approaching situations differently; she recommends diversity and various kinds of peace. 

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This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.

It holds everything that was found, blacked out, scribbled over, finished, unfinished, discarded. It all counts.

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