by Jerry Catt | Nov 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
I wonder about the capacity for openness and intimacy when listening. Though I’ve defined listening as the desire to be intimately present to the meaning of another, I readily admit this seems a rare occurrence. A significant factor is the impediment of will, i.e.,... by Jerry Catt | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
A few of you may have read a bit of this content posted elsewhere sometime ago (on FB 2013) while I was still teaching at Boise State (my last semester was fall of 2015). In spite of my retirement status, now that it’s fall 2017 I can’t suppress the feeling – that I’d... by Jerry Catt | Aug 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
“The greatest secrets of our being are hidden from us, however: they lie in the secrecy of our depths.” Gaston Bachelard in Earth and Reveries of Repose: An Essay on Images of Interiority In recent months my focus has been to better understand how imagination assists... by Jerry Catt | Aug 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Try listening to another in a way that Rumi describes below — see if indeed their meanings essences are unleashed — as Bachelard reminds us “An ear that is intent is trying to see.” “Day before yesterday, fire whispered to the fragrant smoke, Aloes wood loves me,... by Jerry Catt | Jul 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
“There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than America.” (Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville) Jonathan Sacks, referencing Tocqueville, points out that Tocqueville was perplexed by the fact... by Jerry Catt | Jan 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
I am taken with the ambiguity listeners must navigate in everyday ordinary speech acts (read every conversation). The point of listening is often to ‘settle’ something — I find that’s when I become pretty ‘serious’ as a listener. Were that it were easy; that my...
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