The numbers are transformative, restorative, and emancipatory, a wholesale contrast to the numbers of Solomon that brought with them nothing of transformation, restoration, or emancipation.

The wealthy, the powerful, and those who produce the poison of our planet count on the rest of us to be compliant, even if in dissent. The spell of such fearful compliance can be and will be broken only by the few good women and men who dare to march to a different drummer, work from a different script, and act in ways congruent with their conviction of a world held in the good hands of the creator.