August 2024
Ready-to-Ride
Being ready-to-ride is the dynamic journey of looking back in order to look ahead. Where you’ve been, that past doesn’t define who you are: it’s where you’re going that counts. That process of developing your true self makes you who, and what, you are, and shall forever be.
Any road forward must, of necessity, and of logic, join up with detours you’ve had to take. Those unexpected, unavoidable and momentous turnabouts fortuitously become 4-leaf clovers — if you know how to turn adversity into triumph.
Leaving one phase of life to transition into another one can be tricky, but it’s the tricky part that appeals most to me. I get to invent, to create, to improvise, to go with a completely unanticipated flow . . .
And away I go!
I don’t always know how to get from where I am — to where I need to be. I do know my end-goal. And I stay disciplined and focus on keeping my eyes on the prize.
That prize of the end-goal is the fulfillment of my God-given talents. I don’t count the years, or the cost, of that journey because such a voyage is a magnificent, ever-unfolding and uplifting process. I count the blessings, one-by-one, while I zealously guard them, and protect them from the professional rip-off acts of life.
Every person has at least one talent, an innate gift to develop, expand, and nurture so that it flourishes — for the good, for the beauty that is, in essence, goodness. To fail to realize your potential is to fall very short of the glory of God. To refuse to realize it is to willingly become the Devil’s Handmaiden.
Our fates are written in the stars. We must, therefore, look up, to that vault of Heaven. There, we shall divine the destinies awaiting us here on earth.
How often did the revolutionary Copernicus, along with that heretic, Galileo, search the stars, seeking truth and inspiration from the Master Helmsman?
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was the Polish pioneer of the Scientific Revolution. This Renaissance polymath formulated the heliocentric model of the universe. That earthshaking model found a resolute champion in Galileo Galilei — who dared to believe in the facts and the vision of that new-fangled planetary system.
Galileo consequently paid a horrible price for being ready to ride into a new phase of scientific knowledge, one that he pretty much defined, with the help of his Creator. The Roman Empire responded by persecuting, through Inquisition, this formidable advocate of a planetary model that did not place the Earth at the center of the universe.
That vicious reaction calls to mind what happens whenever you challenge the belief system of a narcissist!
In the end, and quite an end it was, Copernicus and Galileo prevailed over the geocentric model of the Solar System devised by Claudius Ptolemy. This ancient Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and music theorist placed the Earth at the center of the universe through his mastery of mathematical analyses of his era.
That era gave way to a newer era.
Galileo, the Florentine father of the scientific method, classical physics and observational astronomy, received his sentencing in 1633 from the Roman Inquisition. He was placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life, a duration of nearly a decade.
For those of us in California who endured the House Arrest of the Covid-Tyrants, that span of lunatic-time proved to be fertile, producing absolute epiphanies in ways that are absolutely bearing fruit. In a remarkably similar vein:
The absolutes that defined Galileo turned out to be absolutely true:
He unflinchingly insisted that the Book of Nature was written in the language of mathematics, and not through the writing of qualitative accounts. His methodical, logical vision forever altered the professional approach to what we Moderns have preposterously been informed by idiots is The Science®.
Medieval medicine made a huge return to humanity in 2020. I venture to say that Galileo, Hippocrates, and the whole God-fearing gang of pioneering doctors, physicians, and surgeons of modern medicine looked down with abject horror and disgust from their perch in the celestial vault.
A spanking brand-new Renaissance in the art of medicine is the order of this day!
Through the genius of Galileo, experimentation became the process leading to the discovery of the facts of nature. The corporately-funded Junk Science of the 21st-Century Inquisition has bankrupted morally, and financially, too many of the brilliant, astute, common-sense scientific apostates who dare to cling to those credos of Galileo. Facts, once again, are finally prevailing over fears.
The book of nature has also been written with the blood of patriots.
In 1776, one hundred and forty-three years after the Roman Inquisition of Galileo Galilei, a new epoch in the revolutionary history of humanity was taking place, in the New World. Thomas Paine, the wordsmith of the American Revolution, penned THE CRISIS. These opening salvos, or mere words, have become sacred to the Patriots in America.:
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tom was always ready-to-ride, perhaps too ready-to-ride. Such can be the fate of an overly zealous revolutionary.
A pioneering person must leave his era; he must not idly watch his era leave him. He must form the cutting edge of the sword that points the way to the coming epoch. He must be ready-to-ride, at a moment’s notice, much like the Minuteman of the American Revolution. He must also be ready to rough it, to accept the formidable challenge of being a Rough Rider. Pursuing your goals, actualizing your dreams, can be a very rough ride. There can be no compromises along the way for the true artist, or for the true American called a patriot, to be true to himself, or herself.
Being ready-to-ride is being ready to shine in the dawn of a new day. That day approaches us, with startling swiftness, after so many years of sloth and slick frauds, cashing in on the goodness of America, on the good hearts of Americans.
Or, in the words of Winston Churchill:
"Come, good night; sleep well, gather your strength for the dawn, for the dawn will come. It will rise, brilliant for the brave, gentle for the faithful who have suffered, glorious over the tombs of heroes . . .”