Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Long before nutritionists coined a name for it, the first Americans were already living what we now call the ketogenic diet. New research suggests these early hunters subsisted almost entirely on large mammals, their bodies tuned to fat and protein, until extinctions across the continent forced a profound rethinking of the meal, and perhaps of survival itself.
That attunement to the physical world runs deeper than we often imagine. Scientists have begun unraveling why certain people can perceive infrasound, those frequencies far below what most ears register. It seems some humans carry a subtle variation in their auditory anatomy, making them sensitive to vibrations the rest of us simply move through without knowing. We are, in ways we are still discovering, instruments of the world around us.
And in Guatemala, a legal petition has asked the Constitutional Court to reconsider the civil code's definition of marriage, opening a public conversation that evangelical leaders there have moved quickly to resist. What endures in law, what shifts in culture, and what remains contested between them, these are questions no single generation fully resolves.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
