THE COMPANY OF OTHERS
With a foreword by John Ralston Saul
Arsenal Pulp Press / PLAN Institute 2005

One in six North Americans will experience disability in their lifetime. This book explores the transforming power of community and how the results enrich us as a society. It is not a book about helping others, but rather a proposal for a better way of living together.

WHAT A LOVELY GEM…. It’s like searching for the words to describe a good wine; it is small, round, earthy and rich. This is not a book of cloying sentiments about “the less fortunate.” This is a small book that packs a big wallop about humanity and the essence of community.
-Dialect Magazine

This book is important and will endure for a long time because it is about every one of us.

- Robert Semeniuk, photographer

Sandra Shields’ sensitive and respectful storytelling and David Campion’s intimate documentary-style photographs create compelling portraits of the grace and dignity of their subjects, and the lessons they have to share with all of us.

- Shari Graydon, author

There is no idea of society more ancient than a circle of friends. And there is nothing more predictable than the discovery by such a circle, who have come together to support one among them, that the one in need is somehow helping the others.
-from the foreword by John Ralston Saul

The pictures and stories brought tears to my eyes, which doesn’t happen very often. 

- Joan Lawrence, parent, retired social worker

What a wonderful, helpful, inspiring new book.

- Professor John McKnight, Northwestern University