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Poetry for Grown Humans

One of the quiet pleasures of Jungian coaching—and of leading an organization founded by a writer and educational advocate—is this: I get to bring my whole self to the work.

Poetry is an extension of that coaching. It is one of the ways I stay honest with myself and with others. The practice leans deliberately on John Ruskin’s attributes of Gothic architecture:

• Savageness (or Rudeness)
  Wildness, roughness, and the visible marks of imperfect human labour. Gothic accepts the work of ordinary hands and builds something noble from fragments that still show their imperfections.
• Changefulness (Love of Change / Variety)
  Perpetual variation. No two elements forced into sameness. The style refuses mechanical uniformity and leaves room for independent invention at every level.
• Naturalism (Love of Nature)
  Direct, frank attention to living forms—plants, animals, the actual world—rendered without classical idealisation or rigid rules.
• Grotesqueness (Disturbed Imagination)
  A restless imagination that mixes the serious and the comic, the beautiful and the strange, the sacred and the ordinary.
• Rigidity (Obstinacy)
  Active strength and tensile energy. Forms that hold tension, resist, and stand firm.
• Redundance (Generosity)
  Overflowing abundance. A willingness to do more than is strictly necessary—an accumulation of detail that expresses humility, enthusiasm, and sympathy with the fullness of the material world.
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In a time of AI fluency and increasing distance from the human (and therefore the spiritual), the Gothic in Ruskin’s sense feels more necessary than ever.

Give me work that makes a person shiver any day of the week.

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