November 1, 2024

This morning, I took from my shelf my copy of Stephen Ellcock’s The Book of Change: Images and Symbols to Inspire Revelations and Revolutions. I let the pages fan through my fingers until I felt compelled to stop.

I landed on this spread. On the left, Dante and Virgil Leave Hell (Inferno XXXIV). On the right, this quote from Marsha P. Johnson in 1992:

History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.

May we leave Hell together. May we hold hands as we step into a new, better reality. Revelations and revolutions are on the step. Throw the door open wide, and let them in.