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.
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.
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.
Homestead Convenience 1G – The Eternal Mystery
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.
