As Notre Dame was burning, firefighters formed a human chain, passing fragile treasures from hand to hand, while sparks spiraled down from the eight centuries of history turning to ash overhead.
Notre Dame's still standing this Easter morning, with sunlight filtering through soot-stained glass and the charred holes in her roof.
Parisians linked arms and pulled one another through. Which is the only way any of us are going to make it out of a week like this last one. Not one of our better weeks, planetwise.
A little boy is fighting for his life after a stranger ripped him away from his mother and hurled him over a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America.
A teenager with a gun terrorized Colorado schools, then turned the gun on herself.
St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church burned, and Greater Union Baptist Church burned, and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church burned down in Louisiana and no one was surprised when the suspected arsonist was charged with targeting black churches out of hate.
The president went before a group of wounded veterans and spent most of his time at the mic congratulating himself over the results of an investigation that documented, with footnotes, what a foul-mouthed venal liar he is. America's main takeaway from the Mueller report is that its president would have done a much better job of obstructing justice if he weren't surrounded by people who ignore almost everything he says.
