journey into inspiration
He is the world’s fastest human calculator who helps children defeat their math phobias. When he was five, Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash fell off his cousin’s scooter when it was hit by a truck, banging his head on the road. Doctors told his parents he could be cognitively impaired the rest of his life. Instead, he… Continue reading He became the world’s fastest human calculator after severe head injury
Twenty-five years ago, Al White was “saving the world one piece of cardboard at a time” as a co-owner of a company that recycled cardboard. Then in a flash his life changed forever. He turned a catastrophic accident into a life of service. White saw a “big opportunity to build a business while doing good… Continue reading he turned a catastrophic accident into a life of service
grief led her to help people tap into their inner strength With her bold, life-affirming messages of hope, Nicole Leth reaches thousands of people each month on every continent except Antarctica. After the death of her father, grief led her to help people tap into their inner strength. When she was 17, Leth’s father, a… Continue reading grief led her to help people tap into their inner strength
She flew 7,000 kilometre in a paramotor, tracking Bewick swans across 11 countries to help save them. A human swan, she flies the skies to save endangered wildlife and to bring awareness of climate change. Australian biologist Sacha Dench flies the skies to emphasize a “drastic shift is needed in the global economy to save… Continue reading A human swan she flies the skies to save endangered wildlife
“Just remember that a kind word, one nice gesture, or a helping hand can make the biggest difference to someone’s life. It did for me.” James Leonard. He lived a life of desperation, using drugs, overdosing, going to prison for small sentences. Then, after injecting two bags of drugs, which he knew could be fatal,… Continue reading he succeeded where others failed
Ten years ago, a mother from Maryland didn’t know much about relationship abuse. Then her daughter died. Sharon Love “didn’t know relationship abuse could be so insidious, difficult to recognize or that it could happen” to her daughter, Yeardley Love, according to the Baltimore Sun. She has learned, however, that after abuse and death, love… Continue reading after abuse and death, love can grow
“She’s still with me, in my memories and my never-ending love for her. She always will be.” From the moment he met her, she changed his life for the better. He told her she gave his life meaning and purpose. And later, when their two daughters were born, his life was complete. She gave him… Continue reading she gave him everything he has and then she died
…the more she raced, “the more I felt like people saw me as an athlete, and not as someone who looked different.” For almost 20 years, she hid the truth about the autoimmune disease that took all of her hair. Then she discovered running. When she ran, she no longer had to harbor a secret.… Continue reading When she ran, she no longer had to harbor a secret
“To me she was like gold; the more time passed by, the more valuable she became.” For 27 years, he believed she would return to life. Then one day she did. On an ordinary day in 1991, Munira Abdulla went to her four-year-old son’s school to bring him home. Her life, and that of her… Continue reading he believed she would return to life
A Greek man has singlehandedly saved about 500 dogs who were abandoned on the streets and in dumps on the Greek Island Crete. He gave up his career to care for these animals because he knows every dog needs a home. Takis Proestakis traces the abandonment of many of the dogs to the financial crisis… Continue reading he knows every dog needs a home
When he brings music to elephants, he brings them peace. Paul Barton, a self-taught pianist and classically trained artist, plays piano for elephants at an elephant sanctuary in Thailand, according to Mother Nature Network (mnn.com), He moved to Thailand to teach piano at a private school for three months. During that time, he met… Continue reading he brings music to elephants
Walking down a New York City street in 2013, Angela Sartin-Hartung was hit by a NYPD traffic enforcement vehicle and suffered from acute traumatic brain injury and amnesia. Not only did she lose 17 years of memories, her husband Jeff Hartung said, she also forgot they were married. And a new journey of love they never thought they… Continue reading she forgot they were married