Sometimes a story is worth sharing for the sheer inspiration of it. Travel photographer/writer Alison Wright's story is just that.
After a brutal bus wreck in the mountains of Laos in which she nearly died, doctors told her that she should find another career, because she would never walk properly again. When she refused to even consider it - her work was too strong a passion to give up - they sent her to a shrink, convinced that she was in denial.
She wasn't in denial. She was determined. And she was right. A year and a half after the accident, she put an exclamation point on it by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. She is now back traveling the world with her camera and notebook in tow. Here's an article about her experience, written while she was still on the road to recovery.
I first met Alison a little over a year ago. Her story helps me keep things in perspective when I hit the inevitable rocky points. As she says, "Nothing is so bad once you've been hit by a bus."
When she was able to begin working again, she was more compelled than ever to work on projects that came from the heart. The first was A Simple Monk: Writings on His Holiness the Dalai Lama (whom she has photographed several times). Most recently she published Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World.
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