Light In the Passage

Millions and millions of years ago, in the vast desert landscape that is now known as Arizona in the US, nature began to brew a breathtakingly beautiful experiment. Each time the thunder rolled in and the skies opened up to create an extraordinary palette of a thunderstorm, large amounts of rain soaked into the sand and percolated way down below into the massive sandstone bedrock.The water and the sand combined to create a sandpaper-like effect and began to abrade and carve up the rock. Over the passage of the millennia, as the earth calmly turned upon its axis, every little thunderstorm over the wide desert expanse generated its own slurry of sand and water which weathered and ate up the rock below, just a little bit more. The depressions in the rock turned into hollows, which turned into caves, which in turn turned into gigantic stone chambers.