Check out the tiny worlds Brooke Weston builds inside vintage taxidermy.

A smirking deer mounted on the wall, its neck half sawed away to reveal a dreamlike hideaway of a soft chair, a tiny rug and a stack of books. A horned ram’s head is home to a treehouse piled with sideshow memorabilia.

Brooke Weston’s workshop is a bright, pretty studio stained with paint and piled with what looks like the prop closet for a community theater that for some reason needed an unusual number of stuffed squirrels. Outside the window, a balcony holds a bucket containing scraps of wood and fur and a flowering tree — even in December — in the dry, warm breezes of middle-of-nowhere central California.

They’re allowed to see each other for only four minutes. On Saturday, May 12, I followed one family’s four-minute reunion on the river.

Families, sadly, are separated every day. They have been; they will be. For a wide variety of reasons, very few of them good. But for this moment in time, we’re both noting and noticing that while the faces change, the unpleasantness remains the same. Which is how we ended up at Hugs Not Walls — an event in the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande, where El Paso, Texas, meets Juárez, Mexico — along with families separated by deportation and immigration status before it became the subject of major political debate.

From the perils of political mudslinging to the Indian untouchable turned cricket star, here’s the best of OZY this week.

A U.S. Supreme Court Justice hangs up the robes, reigning champ Germany shuffles back home after the World Cup’s first round and Harley Davidson rolls production overseas in the face of European tariffs — another week in a world of transitions. So now might be a good time to hit pause and shift into reflection mode by enjoying OZY’s very best from the past seven days.