The dream of convenience is premised on the nightmare of physical work.  But is physical work always a nightmare? […] Perhaps our humanity is sometimes expressed in inconvenient actions and time-consuming pursuits.*
Seth Godin

There are lots of people in the world who stand to benefit
from convenience;
Not only those who want to sell a product that
makes life easier,
But also those who want us to buy into
an idea that gains them followers and power –
Be it political, commercial, entertainment, sporting, or
that baffling category of fame in being a celebrity.

Literacy is not so convenient,
A human superpower long fought for,
So that the world might be a commonwealth
rather than hegemony;
Reflection is also inconvenient,
As are its siblings Silence and Solitude,
And yet,
Here is born goodness.

Here Are three inconvenient books
whose authors I feel are writing off similar things,
And which I came upon again in my
reading, reflecting and journaling this morning:
Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes This World,
Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run With the Wolves,
James Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games.

My sacred space became
the rolling fire of imagination.**

*Seth Godin’s The Carbon Almanac;
**Nick Cave’s blog: The Red Hand Files #192.