Academic Convenience 1 - The First Work

The text reflects an academic mind and practice.It speaks of composition, narrative, editing (sharpen well), and research (preparing the ground).It is also a process for dream work. It is best, for many people, to prepare for the work, and to consider their dream histories before beginning.

Academic Convenience 1 - First Work

Compose an ordinary narrative and sharpen well.

Preparing the ground is necessary.

 

Inconvenience 22 - Initiating Addiction in Adolescence

Inconvenience 22 emphasizes the importance and vulnerability of adolescence during a person's life cycle.The writer proposes that excessive criticism and lack of encouragement during this time may be particularly effective in preparing the person for later addiction.The writer suggests that making the individual doubtful about competence and uncertain of support can encourage that person toward a path of compulsive behavior.

Inconvenience 22

Actuate addiction by direct administration of  admonishment in adolescence

Adopt an adverse advocateship

 

Academic Convenience 12 - Using Others as Examples

Convenience 12 hints at the importance of inspirational examples in dream work.Sometimes, if we cannot find a dream or enough dream energy on our own, using someone else as an example or model can be just the impetus that we need to find our own motivation and inspiration.This does not mean generating an exact copy.It does mean gathering inspiration and ideas and carrying those energies into acts of creating. 

Convenience 12

Lay the pattern on the space

and trace

Inconvenience 6 - Allow the Sulky

Inconvenience 6 emphasizes the possible benefits of working with people who have some underlying dissatisfaction or personality trait.Sulkiness may be the quality of a person who feels neglected or ignored. It can create an excellent soil for inconvenience work, and it should be encouraged (according to the writer).Note the upside-down heart on the bottom of the woman's skirt, the symbol of an inconvenience. 

Inconvenience 6

Allow and crank the sulky woman or man especially

Homestead Convenience 89 - Hint for Mending Broken Dreams

This plain Convenience recommends expanding options.Many convenience scholars infer the following subtext:

Broken dreams are likely inevitable.

Remaining fixated on those broken dreams, or trying to reach them using the same methodologies over and over again, are not useful pursuits.

Expanding options and outlets may provide the extra information to reach the dream, or they may provide a more satisfying vision.

Homestead Convenience 89

Hint for mending broken dreams: deepen outlets

Convenience Ad 10 - Unsatisfactory Dreams Can Be Cured

This advertisement shows the inevitable: the business was commercialized.The advertisement borders on the renegade as not all sanitariums and hospitals can offer legitimately helpful treatment.It also makes the rather large statement that unsatisfactory dreams can be prevented.As Convenience practitioners have experienced throughout the centuries, this is not often true. Nor can unsatisfactory dreams always be cured.Nevertheless, the advertisement does make the potential client aware that institutional help is available.Choosing the appropriate institution is of paramount importance. 

Convenience Ad 10 - Unsatisfactory Dreams Can Be Cured

Inconvenience 5 - Morbid Restlessless

Inconvenience 5 encourages morbid restlessness.Most convenience scholars assert that this means encouraging dissatisfaction with every aspect of life.The Inconvenience notes that this continuous and morbid restlessness almost certainly leads to a profuse depression in the client which is, in this case, something to be sought and cultivated.

Inconvenience 5

sometimes, profuse depression is a desired effect

habituating chronic and acute morbid restlessness

is an astonishingly rapid treatment

Academic Convenience 16 - Embodiment

Convenience 16 emphasizes the idea that it's not enough to embrace change mentally or intellectually.The writer encourages change through the eyes and ears, and suggests that this physical embracing of change can lead to change becoming embodied.The visual and auditory embrace helps create change as memory, and, therefore, as something more likely to become permanent. 

Convenience 16

Embodiment of Thought

This writer feels that appealing

to auditory and visual memory is a must

these illustrate meaning

 

Inconvenience 4 - Privilege and Criticism

Inconvenience 4 speaks to the insidious and destructive natures of privilege and criticism.Assuming privilege, and assuming the practice and right to criticize, can create the other: the other person, other class, other race, other gender, the other [pick any characteristic].This is not to say that criticism and critique are not valuable for many inequitable situations and for instigating change.But Inconvenience 4 is not about civil discourse. This Inconvenience describes the evils of dissatisfaction, projection, and a sense of superiority.The practitioner using this Inconvenience is certainly sowing seeds of discontent and discord. Making some people feel superior to others and encouraging negative criticism creates a crooked worm, as the Inconvenience states.The writer's use of the word worm tells the reader what the practitioner really thinks about the client.Notice the classic indicator of an Inconvenience, the upside-down heart. In this rendition, the writer has used the word heart and has placed it into position at the bottom of the figure.

Inconvenience 4

the simplest

the most dangerous and directest method of construction:

esteem privilege

inoculate with the virus of criticism

and the worm will be crooked enough

 

Homestead Convenience 7 - Abundant Possibilities

The style of this Convenience places it squarely within the Homestead Convenience tradition.The Convenience writer tells her readers that her work with the Conveniences offers a wide variety of options and possibilities. 

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. 

Homestead Convenience 3A - How to Identify a Woman on the Path

The attribute that makes a Convenience a Homestead Convenience is the style, not the content.A Homestead Convenience may be created by any woman, regardless of education, class, or any other aspect of identity.Some create Homestead Conveniences because they prefer what they consider to be a simpler style.Others create Homestead Conveniences because they prefer the ways that the meanings are emphasized.This Convenience is a Homestead Convenience in style, although its meaning is anything but simple.Many readers may note that this writer has used a page from the book Modern Woman and How to Manage Her by Walter Gallichan, 1910.Notice how the writer has allowed the reader to see the derogatory comments about women: St. Augustine asking why women were born at all, Luther advocating withholding culture from women, and women having the fierceness of dragons and the snake's cunning, among many other negative comments.The writer subverts all of these comments by locating and emphasizing her own descriptions of women on the path.The writer uses her own words and claims her own identity and her own place in history and culture.

Academic Convenience 5 - Stretch the body and mind

Convenience 5 speaks to the holistic and complex nature of each person. The condition of the mind and body can affect how easily the heart softens and accepts change.I personally love this convenience for its emphasis on the whole person.I was taught that it also stresses the idea that there are multiple points of introduction for change, including the body, mind, and spirit.

Convenience 5

Stretch the body and mind.

This allows to heart to open to receive the change more easily.

 

Academic Convenience 35 - Open Doors and Community

This convenience invites the traveler, seeker, practitioner, and/or wanderer into something new.It encourages noticing the open doorway that might lead to adventure and a sense of community among like-minded souls.

Convenience 35

From time unknown

open doorways invite the wanderer

into Community

Academic Convenience 23 - Re-form and Recompose

This convenience highlights the importance of reshaping and/or reframing some bad or inadequate experiences.I was taught that this convenience does not mean that all experiences are accepted without question or without action.Reshaping an experience might mean using it as an impetus toward change. It might also mean examining the experience to discover its lessons.The lesson might be change, or it may be acceptance. It might be both.Use discernment.The effects may ripple further than we would ever imagine.

Convenience 23

Re-form and recompose the objectionable

The stakes extend beyond a considerable distance.

 

Homestead Convenience 21 - Dig on the Other Side

Convenience 21

This version of this Convenience advises trying something different.Einstein is often credited with the quote, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."Whether the quote is correctly attributed or not doesn't really matter; the sentiment conveyed by the quote seems to be recognizable and validated by many.This Convenience, attributed to an 1888 Convenience writer, supplies the same message.Please note the added artistry of this writer; she has chosen to draw the faint outline of a fence behind her text. 

Convenience 21

Be done with the ordinary

And to do this, when ready,

dig on the alternate side of the fence.

Anytime Especial Convenience 17 Pull Instead of Push

Especial Convenience 17 - Pull Instead of Push

I have many, but this is one of my favorite Conveniences, composed by one of my favorite Convenience writers.Her true identity is unknown to scholars, although the composition and content of her writings suggest that she was composing in the last quarter of the 19th century.This writer advises attracting clients rather than pushing opinions and services onto those we might seek to help.Her graphic of two women talking tells Convenience scholars that this Convenience writer advocates friendship as motivation for helping another.She goes further when she states that attraction has a far less tendency to harm those seeking help, and her final statement reiterates that friendship, "like parts," is by far [emphasis mine] the best way to approach others. 

Especial Convenience 17

pull instead of push

in pulling there is little tendency to injure

The best way is to make like parts

 

Academic Convenience 25 One Aim is Best

Convenience 25

This version of this Convenience encourages focus.Because it is a Convenience, the unwritten subtext is obvious: having focus will allow healing to be accomplished much more easily. 

Convenience 25

Many have about sixteen aims

One is best

Academic Convenience 48 - Safe to Share

Convenience 48

This Convenience states that it is safe to share our dreams.Implicit in this Convenience, because it is a Convenience, is the idea that all dreams are not too expensive and are not too valuable; there are plenty of dreams to go around.Also implicit is the suggestion that sharing dreams may be helpful because other people may be able to help a person realize a dream. 

Convenience 48

One great trouble is the thinking that DREAMS are too expensive and valuable to be shared

It is safe to share

 

Academic Convenience 9 - Desire is Free

This Convenience suggests that desire [to change] is a necessary component for actuating change.The writer also reminds us that desire is free.I, and other Convenience scholars, believe that the image of the woman was included to illustrate freedom and simplicity.The woman is outside, in nature, and her countenance appears peaceful. Feeding her chicks is a simple task.Some scholars have dissented, saying that feeding chicks can be an onerous daily task, and that her expression is less peaceful than resigned.Make your own assessment. 

Convenience 9

Another good device is free: desire