Welcome to The Light, where we pause together in the quiet hours.
George Saunders invites us to think of storytelling the way we think of falling in love — with openness, with surrender, with a willingness to be changed. A good story, he suggests, does not instruct. It simply opens a door and waits to see if you'll walk through.
Not far from that threshold stands the Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove in Nigeria, where a community of artists has spent generations tending sculptures and shrines to Yorùbá spiritual life. Deep within its canopy, the sacred and the handmade coexist in a kind of ongoing conversation between the living and the ancient.
And yet — even when we stand before something beautiful together, we may not agree on what we're seeing. New research finds that people carry fundamentally different conceptions of what truth even means. Some anchor it in evidence, others in coherence, others in community. No wonder so many arguments feel like ships passing in the dark.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
