This farm convenience soothes with its statement that comfort can be found in the sum of little things.
Focusing on the strong and pleasant aspects of life can create incremental change, and small events can also effect transition to a better vision.
The piece emphasizes that a worthy existence is made up of both good and bad.
Fasten the strong and pleasant to the forlorn
and declare here is a worthy existence.
Daily comfort is the sum of little things.
This writer has used the 1897 edition of Pastures and Pasture Plants by William Toogood to create her Convenience.
Her hand coloring adds interest and emphasis to the piece.
I love this convenience for its insistence that virtues are not rare, and that they can be found in many people, if the time is taken to get to know the individual(s).
Convenience scholars have classified this convenience as one of the Egalitarian Conveniences. This subgenre of conveniences supports the idea that truth does not belong to any one individual or any one group.
Virtue is not rare.
Persons are gifted with NOT-rare virtues.
Watch carefully.
The best plan that we have heard of, or have tried,
is seeing underneath.
This convenience comes from a well-known historical writer, which is to say she is well-known within the convenience academic and lay communities.
This writer always uses cookbooks, or other culinary texts, to reflect her experiences and create her convenience messages.
The literary epicure may recognize that the original page for this convenience comes from the table of contents in the 1863 edition of Beadle’s Dime Cookbook; the cookbook is attributed to Mrs. Victor.
Because of this convenience writer’s familiarity with culinary texts, scholars theorize that she was a cook. She may have been a cook within her own family, may have worked for another household, or may have worked for or owned a commercial enterprise.
Scholars also place her writing likely at the end of the 19th- or early-20th century because of the publication dates of her sources.
One of the significant themes that appear in all of her conveniences is that of kindness. This writer did not hold with the more dictatorial or directive methods used by some other practitioners.
Her emphasis on kindness—and softness, in this convenience—has led some scholars to believe that she had experienced (and recovered from) some kind of trauma in her earlier life.
She appears to understand that some clients need to be approached with care.
Note that she does not change the word currant (a berry) to the word current (a contemporary state).
The word currant supports the ethic-of-kindness theory.
The currant is a small and sweet (but potentially acidic) berry. The writer discerns and names the tension between these two states (sweetness and acidity) by keeping the word currant, and suggests an appropriate response.
This writer always includes an image of food, in this case chocolate cream pie. More sweetness.
Make change soft and kind
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.
to break down one’s self is to lighten experience
provided the necessary repairs render
Insight and Transformation
