
I worked on this some more, ready to call it finished. The originally posted version is below:

Here’s the actual first draft, from 4 October 2015


A Facebook friend shared a post about how a long-term light capture photograph of an apparently empty square of the night sky revealed thousands and thousands of distant stars and galaxies. It is an amazing web of matter and energy that we are such a tiny part of. And I’m grateful for openings that remind me how vast is the mystery.