Resilience and the human spirit

The resilience of the human spirit is something I would love to study further, and it always amazes me how people withstand multiple crisis or illnesses and get back up with a fighting spirit. I’ve volunteered for organisations helping people who have endured extreme, and multiple losses and traumas, people who could well choose to…

Lori La Bey and Richard Taylor

Thinking of Richard Taylor and the hideous onslaught on his body as he is facing chemotherapy, radiotherapy and then radical surgery for oesophageal cancer, one wonders how much the human body and spirit can withstand. He is not alone around the world, as the wonderful Lori La Bey has proven with her tribute radio show…