Welcome to this hour's reflection.
In Santa Cruz, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass and spoke of an unanswered cry for justice rising from the lips of so many men and women, a concern he said belongs to both Church and society. His words ask us to listen for the voices we have learned to walk past.
Meanwhile, President Zelensky says American negotiators raised a question of enormous weight: whether Kyiv would withdraw troops from the Donbas it still holds in exchange for NATO membership. It is a proposal that places territory and security on the same scale, and the weighing has only begun.
And from The Marginalian comes Susan Orlean's quiet argument that obsession is the antidote to meaninglessness, that every great book circles one question, what gives our transient lives meaning, and answers it through the quality of attention we pay. Attention, she suggests, is the lever of love.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
