Seventeen days after the MPR raccoon made his climb, five Maryland journalists were shot and killed. In a year of so many lows for journalism, it’s hard to remember a high quite so high as a raccoon on top of the UBS tower. Living in 2018 has felt like scaling a very tall building; one wrong move, and you will fall into an abyss. I said “no.” And then, a hard, hard fall. When everything has felt hard.

Source: Huffington Post December 21, 2018 12:56 UTC