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Convenience One is different for every convenience writer, because it is the text in which each practitioner describes her (or the occasional his) initial experience with the convenience mysteries.

This writer clearly stated that she believed that the ability to understand mystery was within the realm of possibility for all.

 

Convenience 1G**

Many years ago a woman spoke of the Eternal Mystery as within reach for all.

Visit the possible.

 

**Please note that the 1G name is merely a scholarly designation intended to make it simpler for future students to differentiate among the various first conveniences.

 

Convenience 100 implies an interesting question, and then it suggests an answer.

How do we sustain the beneficial changes and growth that have occurred in our lives? Which of us has not experienced a backslide into old behavior, even if that behavior is harmful in some way?

This Convenience suggests that maintaining change is a matter of grace.

Some Convenience activists have fiercely disputed the suggestion that grace is required to maintain progress. They have argued that activism is definitely required.

Are they wrong?

Here again, the either/or question: contemplation or action.

Later Convenience writers consider the either/or question to be a fallacious one.

They would say it is both.

This convenience writer emphasized the visionary arts and the importance of observation and memory.

As you are undoubtedly coming to realize, each convenience writer tends to emphasize the qualities that she herself possesses.

I don’t personally read The Conveniences as indicating that each convenience writer believed that only her qualities are/were suitable for service.

But it is true that several convenience scholars have read the pieces with an exclusionary eye, and some contentious academic disagreements have broken out over the years.

Some scholars have made a career out of rebutting others’ arguments in various academic journals.

Most of the disagreements seem to rest on right brain/left brain conflict.

Do The Conveniences describe process? Logic? Art?

All of it?

Convenience Six – Visionary Art, Observation, and Rich Memories

Find new inspiration by becoming familiar with visionary artists.

Work may be improved by some observation,

deepened with a store of rich memories.