Some days, really big things happen.  Take a little time to consider this.  Way, way, way back in 1595, on July 19,   a guy named Kepler had a revelation of sorts.  Yeppers.    Astronomer Johannes Kepler had, what Historians call, an Epiphany.  And this big notion developed into his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe.

These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton’s theory of universal gravitation.

But the long and short of it, he figured out that the earth circles the sun, along with all the other planets.  He made major strides in other areas, but I won’t bore the crap out of you with all of that.  Thank your lucky twinkling stars for that.  But his theory met much opposition.  He had a rough way to go of it at times, but he knew he worked out the proof of it all.  Geometrically.  He persisted.

Okay… but some days… historically… really ROCK.  July 19th goes on.  It was a big old day for women.  Not so terribly long ago, in 1848….a handful of gals, led mostly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized the very first U.S. Women’s Rights Convention.  It was held in Seneca, NY.

Most of them were Abolitionists, and Social Activists too.  They were all about human rights.  What a bunch of brave, brave, brave, and very smart women.   It wasn’t an easy path to take either.  But they went out, time after time, and fought for the right thing to do.  Amazing.   And … looky what happened.  I can vote.

I think there are lessons to be learned in both instances.

Sometimes in life, we know the right thing to do.  We have that “proof” of what is the right way to go.  Other times, we get the old “gut feeling” and we know we have to move toward it.

Either way… it isn’t always easy to do.  But if we know it is righteous … then any other way just would not be appropriate, or providential.  And so we go.  Or at least… I think… we ought to go.

Take that path less traveled as Robbie Frost once said…. about that divergent road in the woods.

And we scamper away down that path.  Poison Ivy and all.  Mosquitoes.  It makes no difference to us.  We have our cans of OFF and our Calamine Lotion… because we dare.  We dare to take the road less traveled.   And we persist until we make it right.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.  —  Elbert Hubbard

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.   — Thomas Carlyle

Oh, and by the way… today is Lizzie’ Borden’s birthday.  But she killed her parents with an ax, and that doesn’t really bode well for this message.  Albeit, she gave one of them 50 whacks and the other 51.  So… in that way… I guess she was persistent.