
For this interview Jean-Louis Munn of L’Arche Canada travelled to the beautiful little farm of Jacques Dufresne and his wife, Hélène Laberge. Jacques offers a sensitive reflection on that which makes us human – “la richesse vitale,” the precious aliveness within each person. It is something much deeper than our rationality, and something often found strikingly in people who have severe developmental disabilities. When we lose it, we enter a kind of wasteland. A whole society can experience this loss. Jacques’ exploration of how we can recover and nurture our souls is an important contribution. Beth Porter, ed. |