This week.......

....has been a very strange week for me. A week full of profound memories, of sadness and confusion but also of hope and happiness.

A week when thoughts have come unbidden, a myriad of conflicting emotions, when I am reminded of the strength of the human spirit and of gentleness of heart.

It has been a week of introspection but also of a salving joy in knowing that inividuals can triumph over great adversity and pain, that existence is finite and that in that knowledge our thirst for life, our ability to strive forward, to present a great strength, can overcome.

Only rarely in our life are we truly tested, either physicaly or emotionally. Our physiological self can be trained to deal with almost any extreme, our psychological being has to face so much more.

Occasionally in our life are we priveledged to feel immense respect and admiration; this week I have been priveledged.