• The older man kneeling, chopping up a tree stump with a hatchet.
  • The little frog hopping around at the Wilco, Sleater-Kinney, and NNAMDÏ show in St. Louis.
  • Hardly a comforting thought, but a comforting thought nonetheless: when the scope and intensity of the world’s suffering seems newly too much to bear, remembering it’s always been too much to bear.