And now for something completely different: a man who embraces weakness

At a time when toxic tweets consume so much of our political bandwidth and abuse of power seems rampant, Jean Vanier is an oasis of sane humanity.
Jean Vanier, pictured in an undated photo, provides an soothing balm in a soul-frying global relations desert, writes Lisa Van Dusen.
It has become my habit, when the loopy cascade of previously unthinkable political headlines emanating mostly, but not exclusively, from Washington starts to harsh my naturally sunny disposition, to score a fix of therapeutic counter-programming. This can take the form of viewing random episodes of ...

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