Astronomy Photo Of the Day

     Ezekial excoriates false prophets as those who have "not gone up into the gaps."  The gaps are the thing.  The gaps are the spirit's own home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself for the first time like a once-blind man unbound.  The gaps are clefts in the rock where you cowere to see the back parts of God; they are the fissures between mountains, and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery.  Go up into the gaps.

                                                     - Annie Dillard

                     Pilgrim At Tinker Creek    New York: Harper Magazine Press, 1974