The Enduring Love that Inspired Us This Week: Joni Mitchell Makes an Epic Comeback and Robin Roberts Celebrates Her Love

After a two-month long hiatus, Robin Roberts announced this past week that she’ll be returning to Good Morning America. The TV anchor and beloved personality took the time to pause and reflect and care for her longtime partner, Amber Laign, who has been fighting breast cancer since 2021.

Roberts recently shared on Instagram that Laign has completed her rounds of radiation, noting how this feat has given her inspiration. Roberts and Laign have been together for 17 years.

After time away, Roberts is eager to get back on screen in front of her audience. But she is taking with her the love she has for Laign and gratitude for their wellbeing. As she wrote on Instagram, "Sweet Amber & I are thankful for the time we had to reflect, recharge and rejoice.”

In other love-centered news of taking the stage, Joni Mitchell has made a glorious return in front of fans. The revered 78-year-old singer-songwriter took the microphone at the Newport Folk Festival, a music gathering where she’s performed before, notably in the 60s. This reunion between the artist and performance comes after incredible resilience and determination. Mitchell suffered an aneurysm in 2015, which forced her to have to learn how to walk, play guitar, and sing again.

“I’m learning,” Mitchell told CBS. “You have to relearn everything.”

She is doing this with tenacity and grace, and we applaud her from afar.