Special thanks to larokkaku for bringing this story to my attention.
As I wrote here yesterday – it’s the individual stories of survival and triumph that come out of such catastrophic disasters like the China earthquake which renew my belief in the human spirit; and this story here does just that.

An amazing story which hits close to home; the planet is angry.  Between earthquakes, cyclones, volcanoes, tornadoes, mudslides, wildfires, floods, drought, food shortages, and war – May of 2008 may very well be remembered as one of the deadliest ever.  It’s often hard to put a face on death of this kind of scale – [...]