I’m pretty sure I”m not the only person in the world right now who’s overwhelmed with stuff to feel.

There’s the global stuff, which is…horrible. There’s the US government stuff: also horrible. Locally, there’s drought and stressed-out trees and neighbors with hateful political signage in their yards.

Sometimes, I think about all the problems we could fix as a species if we just stopped squabbling over who did and didn’t deserve to be treated as humans, and I could drown in rage and despai...