KIKU: THE JAPANESE ART OF GOOD LISTENING PLUMERIA or thyme for bravery

or thyme for bravery

Since the early nineteenth century

expressive style unmistakably the artist's own

the civil rights movement

KIKU: THE JAPANESE ART OF GOOD LISTENING PLUMERIA or thyme for braveryInspired by the Japanese concept of kikua more engaged, empathetic style of listeninga sociolinguistics researcher and writer offers a ground breaking guide to more intentional and meaningful communication. No other life form turns noise into sound, sound into language, then language into understanding quite the way we humans do when we listen. As a sociolinguist who grew up in different places with very different languages, Haru Yamada has always