Be the squirrel, girl. The 2003 bluesy rock song “Little Acorns” by The White Stripes opens with the voice of legendary former Detroit news anchor Mort Crim. Over a simple piano arrangement, Crim describes a woman overwhelmed by tragedy and sadness who finds “the will and courage to continue” when she watches a squirrel collecting acorns for the winter. “One at a time, he would take them to the nest,” the woman relays through our narrator, Crim. “If that squirrel can take care of himself with a harsh winter coming on, so can I.” When I was a teenager circa 2011, I treated my then-undiagnosed anxiety disorder by playing this song at ear-splitting volume repeatedly until I knew every line of Crim’s intro by heart. Later in the song, Jack White appeals to the listener,...