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Jok Church: A circle of caring
Jok Church: En cirkel af omsorg
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I denne 3 minutters tale fortæller serietegner og lærer Jok Church en bevægende historie om den lærer som tog sig af ham da ingen andre gjorde og hvordan han gjorde gengæld.
Jok Church - Cartoonist
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World." Full bio
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World." Full bio
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You know, what I do is write for children,
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Som i ved, hvad jeg laver er at skrive for børn,
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and I'm probably America's
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og jeg er sandsynligvis Americas
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most widely read children's author, in fact.
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mest læste børneforfatter, faktisk.
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And I always tell people
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Og jeg fortæller altid folk
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that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist.
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at jeg ikke ønsker at dukke op og ligne en videnskabsmand.
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You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers,
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Du kan have mig som landmand, eller i læder,
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and no one has ever chose farmer.
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og ingen har nogensinde valgt landmand.
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I'm here today to talk to you
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Jeg er her i dag at tale med dig om
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about circles and epiphanies.
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om cirkler og åbenbaringer.
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And you know, an epiphany
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Og du ved, en åbenbaring er
som regel noget du opdager, at du har tabt et sted.
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is usually something you find that you dropped someplace.
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00:42
You've just got to go around the block
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Du behøver blot at gå rundt om bygningen
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to see it as an epiphany.
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for at se det som en åbenbaring.
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That's a painting of a circle.
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Det er et maleri af en cirkel.
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A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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En af mine venner malede det--Richard Bollingbroke.
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It's the kind of complicated circle
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Det er den komplicerede type cirkel
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that I'm going to tell you about.
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som jeg vil fortælle dig om.
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My circle began back in the '60s
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Min cirkel begyndte tilbage i 60 ' erne
i high school i Stow, Ohio
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in high school in Stow, Ohio
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01:00
where I was the class queer.
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hvor jeg var klassen svans.
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I was the guy beaten up bloody
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Jeg var den fyr som blev tævet blodig
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every week in the boys' room,
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hver uge i drengenes omklædningsrum,
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until one teacher saved my life.
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indtil én lærer reddede mit liv.
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She saved my life by letting me go to the bathroom
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Hun reddede mit liv ved at lade mig gå på toilettet
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in the teachers' lounge.
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i lærernes lounge.
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She did it in secret.
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Hun gjorde det i hemmelighed.
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She did it for three years.
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Hun gjorde det for tre år.
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And I had to get out of town.
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Og jeg var nødt til at komme ud af byen.
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I had a thumb, I had 85 dollars,
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Jeg havde en tommelfinger, jeg havde 85 dollars,
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and I ended up in San Francisco, California --
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og jeg endte i San Francisco, Californien--
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met a lover --
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mødte en elsker--
og tilbage i 80 ' erne, fandt jeg det nødvendigt
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and back in the '80s, found it necessary
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to begin work on AIDS organizations.
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at begynde at arbejde for AIDS organisationer.
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About three or four years ago,
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For tre eller fire år siden,
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I got a phone call in the middle of the night
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fik jeg et telefonopkald midt om natten
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from that teacher, Mrs. Posten,
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fra den lærer, Mrs Posten,
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who said, "I need to see you.
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Som sagde, "Jeg har brug at se dig.
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I'm disappointed
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Jeg er skuffet over
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that we never got to know each other as adults.
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at vi aldrig har lært hinanden at kende som voksne.
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Could you please come to Ohio,
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vil du være sød og komme til Ohio,
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and please bring that man
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og medbring den mand
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that I know you have found by now.
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jeg ved, du må have fundet.
02:00
And I should mention
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Og jeg bør nævne
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that I have pancreatic cancer,
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at jeg har kræft i bugspytkirtlen,
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and I'd like you to please
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og jeg vil venligt bede dig om
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be quick about this."
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at komme hurtig hertil."
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Well, the next day we were in Cleveland.
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Nå, den næste dag var vi i Cleveland.
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We took a look at her, we laughed, we cried,
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Vi tog et kig på hende, vi lo, vi græd,
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and we knew that she needed to be in a hospice.
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og vi vidste, at hun havde brug for at være på et hospice.
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We found her one, we got her there,
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Vi fandt hende et, vi fik hende derhen,
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and we took care of her
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og vi tog os af hende
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and watched over her family,
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og tog hånd om hendes familie,
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because it was necessary.
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fordi det var nødvendigt.
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It's something we knew how to do.
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Det var noget vi vidste, hvordan man gjorde.
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And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult
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Og lige som den kvinde, der ønskede at kende mig som voksen
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got to know me,
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kom til at kende mig,
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she turned into a box of ashes
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blev hun til en æske med aske
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and was placed in my hands.
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og blev placeret i min hånd.
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And what had happened
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Og hvad der skete var det at
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was the circle had closed,
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cirklen havde lukket sig,
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it had become a circle --
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Det var blevet en cirkel--
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and that epiphany I talked about
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og den åbenbaring jeg talte om
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presented itself.
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præsenterede sig selv.
02:51
The epiphany is
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Åbenbaringen er at
døden er en del af livet.
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that death is a part of life.
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02:55
She saved my life;
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Hun reddede mit liv;
Jeg og min partner reddede hendes.
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I and my partner saved hers.
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03:02
And you know, that part of life needs everything
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Og du ved, at den del af livet har brug for alt
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that the rest of life does.
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som resten af livet har.
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It needs truth and beauty,
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Den behøver sandhed og skønhed,
og jeg er så glad for at det er blevet nævnt så meget her i dag.
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and I'm so happy it's been mentioned so much here today.
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03:11
It also needs --
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Det behøver også--
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it needs dignity,
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Det har brug for værdighed,
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love and pleasure,
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kærlighed og glæde,
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and it's our job to hand those things out.
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og det er vores opgave at dele disse ting.
03:21
Thank you.
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Tak.
03:23
(Applause)
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(Bifald)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jok Church - CartoonistJok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World."
Why you should listen
In his work, Jok Church loved helping kids learn basic concepts of science and experimentation -- with a healthy dash of fun. He created his comic strip You Can with Beakman & Jax in 1991 for his local newspaper in Marin County, California -- inspired by a stint answering kids' letters for Lucasfilm. The comic strip does not answer readers' questions directly. Rather, it gives directions to do a thing, a procedure, an experiment to learn the answer. It's about learning by doing. Active. Not passive.
Six Beakman & Jax books are best-sellers. Church created the long-running TV series Beakman's World, a hit in English and Spanish, and helped create the Beakman's World on Tour exhibit for science centers and museums. A longtime techie, he also served as the webmaster for artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Church died April 29, 2016, and will be much missed.
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