Pope John Paul II told us that what the world desperately needs is for us to ‘recapitulate the human person’. In every talk I give, I try to make this connection to the person, and to help us all grow more fully aware of the dimensionality of human beings. The term ‘dimensionality’ is one I began using as I wrote Souls at Rest, because there is no other way to describe the sense of the human person as a place – a capacity for encounter with ideas, with other people, with paradox, and with Christ. It is my desire to help this place within persons to open and to grow through creative response to interior tensions, and greater love of self. The idea of the Poetic Human is linked to this, but is just one of many senses in which the human person is ‘three dimensional’ – a sacred vessel for the birth of genuinely new things, and a channel of God’s grace to the barren desert around us. I am fascinated by the power of the ‘radical specificity’ of each human being, and believe this is the key to bringing living water to the thirsty world.