On the Best Form for a Balance Dream

The writer has begun this convenience by using an 1895 text by W. C. Kernot, entitled On the Best Form for a Balance Beam.This is a smart choice, as every appearance of the word beam in the book can easily be changed to dream.This style of convenience writing has been very popular on and off through the centuries, and has been known by various names.Because this writer has used a late-nineteenth-century text, convenience scholar knows that she was writing at or after that time, and the style was known as the Rhyming Dream Convenience during that era.This writer also clearly supports Adjacency Theory: the belief that it is easier to change old dreams to somewhat similar new dreams.

On the Best Form for a Balance-Dream

Cultivating a mental adaptability will support the effort.

Arrange matters longitudinally, and in the same plane.

Form a series of ideas & visions and dreams

where effort is the fulcrum,

and fate and grace the points from which the dreams are suspended.

A Dream of Consolation 1

This convenience writer emphasizes the need for hope.She recognizes that the ability to hope may take a while to acquire, and that the path toward its acquisition may be difficult to traverse.The writer calls this hard-earned hope a pretty addition, notifying her readers of her belief in the long game.She also confirms her belief in the luckiness of the number three. This belief does not originate within the convenience community; it has been constructed and propagated throughout many cultures in history.The writer seeks to console, which presupposes some sadness or pain.

A Dream of Consolation

Hope is a pretty addition;

hope both long and steep, an addition of three aspects,

three being lucky.

The first point is imagination in dreams.

The second and third close upon revealing and residing in a transformed possible future.

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.

Balance Dream 1

This convenience writer uses an 1880 paper which was presented during the 1881 Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria.The writer has created several conveniences using this text; her usage has revealed to scholars her particular focus on the need for balance in dreams.In this convenience, she emphasizes authenticity, and she conflates it with a lack of pretense. 

The Art of the Best Form for Balance-Dreams

[May 13, 1880]

Some desirable properties will be found in the imagination and some in nature.

The balance-dream should be as authentic as possible.

What does authentic mean?

I don't know.

All we can do is compromise;

the less the pretense of the dream, the better will be the balance in both old and new.

The Treatment of the Large Dream

Here is a practitioner using a convenience advertisement to solicit business for herself.The text speaks for itself; the writer believes (and/or attempts to make others believe) that professional help is needed to treat large dreams.She offers her own services to remedy any large dream difficulties.

The Treatment of the Large Dream

Come Over and See Me

Dreaming Difficulties Solved.

Expert Answers to Amateurs' Questions

While it is a simple matter to shape up a small dream,

it becomes another matter when large dreams are in question.

Here it requires experience to get out of the muddle.

If you have not had the necessary experience,

it would not be safe to do the work without expert advice.

So Spins the World of Dreaming

Some convenience writers have found it easier to create their conveniences using texts about dreams.It's an understandable choice; many desired words may be found already on the pages.This particular writer has chosen to use an 1862 edition of Fontaine's Golden Wheel Fortune-Teller, and Dream Book for her original text, a smart choice.The writer's emphasis is on positionality and interpretation. She refutes the idea that something is automatically helpful or definitely unhelpful, which is not to deny that the helpful and unhelpful exist.She recommends discernment, and notes that variability is a natural state.

Dreams can fortell [sic] abundance.

Take care: sometimes it goes by contrary.

An abyss is a warning.

Be sure, as it is occasionally a good omen.

So spins the world of dreaming.

Dreamer's Oracle and Letter Writer

Here is another convenience advertisement.One of the comments throughout the convenience community has concerned written communication.Some practitioners are able to confidently and independently communicate via the written word.Other practitioners work best from example.This book purports to provide examples for those wishing to see what other practitioners had written.Note the use of the French phrase, Le Bon Reve, meaning the good dream.Some modern scholars suggest that the inclusion of this phrase is intended to provide the book with the patina of sophistication, but Le Bon Reve does more than that. It tells the reader that its contents are concerned with conveniences only; it does not address any type of inconvenience.This book has proven to be enormously popular, and rightly so.

The New York Imagination Bazar

Model Letter-Writer and Dreamers' Oracle

Price 25 cents

This book is a guide for dreamers and seekers to learn effective and sincere letter writing

& provides perfect examples of letters between practitioners and clients.

Every form of letter used in affairs of Le Bon Reve will be found in this little book.

Order from

Unlimited Publishing House

P. O. Box 1727 New York

Thanks for Teachers

Convenience scholars believe that this convenience was written by an older teacher.It clearly emphasizes and celebrates the oral and written traditions involved in sharing knowledge among practitioners.Practitioner knowledge has been passed among teachers and students for centuries.Note that the writer has cited her source (as an academic would do): the 1910 edition of Teachers Magazine.

Thanks for Teachers

Hoping that others may find me useful

and give thanks for all teachers' help.

My old friends never forget the aim of good.

This has been proved repeatedly.

Convenience for the Less Conventional

This convenience speaks to the lived experience of not being able to conform to someone else's expectations.The writer recognizes that some outsiders hold the knowledge that remaining open, watching for possibilities, and having courage and trust are beneficial.She asserts that these worldviews will lead to an awareness that the self is valuable and that all is well.

Dreams and Personality 2

Sometimes the less conventional cannot conform

and some of those maintain this authority:

seek to allow possibility and be open.

Have courage and trust that

"all manner of things shall be well." (Julian of Norwich)

A Dream Background of Dun and Grey

This convenience writer cautions against the belief that all dreams must be larger-than-life or must meet some particular standard of excitement.The variety of dreams is as wide and deep as the human spirit. Some seek only serenity.

Some dreams do not look for vivid colouring.

The neutral tints beckon to many imaginations and hearts.

A background of dun and grey may be preferred.

When I Became a Crone

Convenience scholars generally recognize this convenience as an academic text, and many scholarly papers have been written about its sentiments.It is acknowledged as an early reclaiming of the word crone because it embraces denotation and connotation of an older woman as wise and powerful.Most convenience historians theorize that an academic woman created it near, or after, the end of her teaching career.

When I Became a Crone

Life felt free and simple & Powerful

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.

Every Part of the Rainbow is Fine

A rainbow is used as a metaphor in this Convenience.Scholars generally accept that the Convenience writer and scholar named Anna created this statement. She was writing during the early twentieth century. (She is first mentioned here).Anna was part of an early twentieth-century convenience movement to be more inclusive.The movement encouraged the belief that all benevolent dreams [emphasis mine] were part of the spectrum of possibility and should be encouraged.

In our experience,

every part of the rainbow is so fine.

The day is washed by rains, dried by the sun's heat,

and is especially favored.

It is a joy to the eye.

Some Missouri Convenience History

Here is the first example of a convenience specifically describing a piece of regional history.The text of the writing indicates that healing can sometimes, at first, feel like more trauma.The writing also indicates that this discernment can be difficult for practitioners as well.The process may, in fact, appear to be an inconvenience, but the results will reassure the seeker that this is not so.

Missouri Convenience History

Even newcomers with knowledge and experience found the learning process steep.

The beautiful convenience was simple.

The convenience designed to repair damage sometimes appeared to be an inconvenience

Reminiscences in another County

Convenience scholars believe that this convenience was written by a man who had been a soldier, or by a woman very familiar with a soldier, perhaps a wife, sweetheart, sister, or mother.Note the publication date of the original source, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. (1897).The first sentence of the convenience references five-and-thirty years ago, which tells us that the convenience is referencing a time roughly located in the early 1860s.The language of the convenience is formal and hierarchical which does not necessarily place it within a military milieu as much of the 18th century experience was hierarchical.The style of the convenience does place it within a military context.Note that the extraneous text is not struck-through and references officers, exercises, Wellington, Napoleon, etc.Many scholars debate the reasons for leaving the extraneous text; here are some of their questions:

• Was the writer so busy he or she did not have time to strike through the text?
• Was the reader so confident that he or she did not see the need to strike through the text?
• Was the writer unfamiliar with the convenience tradition of striking through? This may indicate that the writer is new to the conveniences.
• Was the convenience dictated from a soldier to another person, one who may not have been familiar with the traditions?

In any case, the convenience certainly appeals to those who are comforted by authority and precision.

Reminiscences in Another County

They were soldiers

Five-and-thirty years ago the graduates were ambitious and not afraid of work

Memoir presents a memory:

those who were at the top of the tree of truth made up the nucleus around which trading was formed.

Their motto was serving hope with distinction

A New Year's Preface

This convenience writer considers some of her life experiences; she then describes some intentions for a new year.The original page for this convenience comes from The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-industry by Wilhelm von Bezold, 1876.Convenience scholars suggest that this writer is an older woman because of the depth of the introspection and the date of the source page.Note the use of color on a source page written about color theory. Also note the yearned-for experiences, the width and depth of their hunger, and how they metaphorically interact with the concept of color.This writer was quite prolific, and her images appear again and again across the convenience landscape.Convenience scholars have adopted the convention of calling her Anna.

A New Year's Preface

Though the author attempts to not conceal herself from herself,

the fact is that mysteries & tangled paths abound

especially among memory, distress, comfort, & release

&

it is principally intended that in this New Year

the most glorious creations are seen and heard & smelt & touched & thought and felt & imagined

and made

by continued practice & play and care & curiosity

Seeing Dreams With a Clear Eye

This Convenience Commentary writer advocates leaving aside too many old beliefs (superstition) and too many expectations (reverence).The writer is from the convenience tradition that privileges the current moment as the only sure source for dream validity.She adheres to one of that tradition's primary tenets: the theory that a selectively-remembered past, and an imagined future (both impossible to avoid), present us with counterfeited impressions of possibility.

Seeing Dreams with a Clear Eye

I believe counterfeiting dreams hath done mischief.

I fear reverence and superstition to be a narrow compass.

The results of this combination are injurious.

Homestead Convenience 37 - Break Down the Self

The writer of this homestead convenience advocates deconstruction, and the phrase break down is used as both a verb and a noun.When break down is experienced as a noun, the writer recognizes that a seeming break down may actually be a creative experience, and/or an experience full of grace.

Convenience scholars have parsed this passage and have noted that the phrase break down may denote any life experience that causes (or is caused by) stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, etc.

The scholars do NOT attempt to trivialize the physiological causes of a break down, and they do recognize professional help (if required) as contributors to insight and transformation.

When used as a verb, the convenience writer suggests that breaking down habitual ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving is useful. Breaking down is deliberate in this case.Please note that the writer speaks of necessary repairs. She advocates repair, which scholars take to mean a reassembling of thinking, feeling, and behavior.She advocates transformation.

Farm Convenience 37 - Break Down the Self

to break down one's self is to lighten experience

provided the necessary repairs render

Insight and Transformation

Commercial Convenience 90 - No Guarantees

This Convenience writer warns against the results promised by some of the convenience advertisements and convenience commercial concerns.The writer warns that a client should not expect new dreams to be forever protected, or expect the new dreams themselves to protect the individual from all possible future misfortune.The writer advocates seeking increased freedom in the present, and firmly states the belief that improving the present is a full and satisfactory result.

The End of Bad Dreams

Bonded for 20 and 10 years

Your dream is NOT protected by this 20-year bond.

You are not safeguarded against all troubles, for that guarantee is not possible.

Skillful, dependable work in the present can possibly provide a sense of freedom far beyond the current experience,

and it is enough.

Homestead Convenience 31 - Transmutation

Some practitioners favor the idea and act of transmutation, rather than replacement.This convenience writer believes that the energy in old, or no-longer-useful, beliefs or dreams can be changed into a new kind of experience.Please note that the writer advocates NOT beginning the transmutation until all other attempts and all other avenues have proven fruitless.This writer believes the fruitlessness to be natural and inevitable.The writer's comments about coming to the laborious tells clients that there is work to be done.The end of the tether does not mean immediate peace, but it can mean the first step in healing.

Farm Convenience 31

Transmutation

Come to the inevitable, to the natural, to the laborious.

Reach the end of the tether and

undertake sufficient care that no particle be lost.