Bugs, Stained Glass, and Daylight Savings!!

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued" – Oliver Wendell Holmes --

George Vernon Hudson was an entomologist. A bug studier. A pretty famous one. He was also an artist and designed stained-glass windows. Oh, and he also worked at the post office, when he wasn’t out exploring New Zealand.

George thought if only there were more hours in a day he could would have more time, or at least more daylight, to pursue his varied hobbies and interests. Like insects. So he proposed the idea. Voila! Daylight Savings.

I take great comfort in reviewing Hudson’s career path. Here’s a guy who grew up on a farm and had a passion for playing with bugs. While I can’t relate to his particular predilection, I can appreciate having one thing you want to do all the time – that’s always on your mind. That you wish you had more time for, more hours in the day.

I can also relate to his less-than-straight-as-an-arrow career path. What an obvious flow from bug lover to artist, designer to astronomer, explorer to innovator.

It shows me all roads, while they may not lead to Rome, lead you right where you ought be.

Eventually.

And that there is no straight path, or right path, just the one we’re on. However crooked or contorted in may appear, something great will come from it. Whatever your passion or calling.

Soldier on!!

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