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Jok Church: A circle of caring
Jok Church: Un cercle d'amor
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En aquesta xerrada de 3 minuts, el dibuixant i educador Jok Church conta la commovedora història de la mestra que va cuidar d'ell quan ningú més ho va fer, i com ell li va tornar el favor.
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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Sabeu? Em dedico a escriure per als nens
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and I'm probably America's
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i, de fet, probablement sóc
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most widely read children's author, in fact.
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l'escriptor infantil més llegit dels Estats Units.
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And I always tell people
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I sempre dic a la gent
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that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist.
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que no vull anar vestit com un científic.
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You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers,
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Puc anar com un granger o vestit de cuir,
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and no one has ever chose farmer.
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i ningú mai elegeix granger.
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I'm here today to talk to you
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Avui estic aquí per parlar-vos
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about circles and epiphanies.
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sobre cercles i revelacions.
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And you know, an epiphany
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I, sabeu? Una revelació
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is usually something you find that you dropped someplace.
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sol ser alguna cosa que trobes després d'haver-la deixat caure en qualsevol lloc.
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You've just got to go around the block
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Sols heu de donar una volta a l'illa
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to see it as an epiphany.
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per veure-ho com a una revelació.
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That's a painting of a circle.
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Això és un dibuix d'un cercle.
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A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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El va fer un amic meu, el Richard Bollingbroke.
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It's the kind of complicated circle
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És el tipus de cercle complicat
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that I'm going to tell you about.
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del qual us parlaré avui.
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My circle began back in the '60s
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El meu cercle va començar als anys 60,
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in high school in Stow, Ohio
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a l'institut a Stow, Ohio,
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where I was the class queer.
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on era el marieta de la classe.
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I was the guy beaten up bloody
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Jo era el nen a qui apallissaven fins que sagnava
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every week in the boys' room,
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cada setmana al lavabo dels nois,
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until one teacher saved my life.
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fins que una mestra em va salvar la vida.
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She saved my life by letting me go to the bathroom
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Em va salvar la vida deixant-me entrar al bany
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in the teachers' lounge.
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de la sala de professors.
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She did it in secret.
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Ho va fer en secret.
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She did it for three years.
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Ho va fer durant tres anys.
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And I had to get out of town.
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I vaig haver d'anar-me'n de la ciutat.
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I had a thumb, I had 85 dollars,
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Tenia un polze, tenia 85 dòlars,
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and I ended up in San Francisco, California --
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i vaig acabar a San Francisco, Califòrnia.
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met a lover --
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Vaig trobar el meu estimat...
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and back in the '80s, found it necessary
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i en els anys 80 vaig considerar necessari
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to begin work on AIDS organizations.
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començar a treballar amb organtizacions que lliutaven contra la sida.
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About three or four years ago,
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Farà 3 o 4 anys,
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I got a phone call in the middle of the night
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vaig rebre una trucada en meitat de la nit
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from that teacher, Mrs. Posten,
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d'aquella professora, la senyoreta Posten,
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who said, "I need to see you.
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que em deia: "Necessito veure't.
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I'm disappointed
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Em decepciona
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that we never got to know each other as adults.
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que mai ens vam arribar a conèixer d'adults.
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Could you please come to Ohio,
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Podries venir a Ohio
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and please bring that man
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i, si us plau, portar aquest horme
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that I know you have found by now.
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que sé que ja has trobat?
02:00
And I should mention
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I he de dir
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that I have pancreatic cancer,
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que tinc càncer de pàncrees,
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and I'd like you to please
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així que, si us plau, m'agradaria
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be quick about this."
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que no t'entretinguessis".
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Well, the next day we were in Cleveland.
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Bé, el dia següent estàvem a Cleveland.
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We took a look at her, we laughed, we cried,
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Vam vistar-la, vam riure, vam plorar
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and we knew that she needed to be in a hospice.
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i sabíem que necessitava estar en un hospital.
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We found her one, we got her there,
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Vam trobar-ne un, la vam portar allà
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and we took care of her
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i vam cuidar d'ella
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and watched over her family,
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i de la seva família,
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because it was necessary.
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perquè era necessari.
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It's something we knew how to do.
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Era una cosa que sabíem com fer.
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And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult
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I tot just quan la dona que volia conèixer-me com a adult
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got to know me,
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ho va fer,
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she turned into a box of ashes
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es va convertir en una caixa de cendres
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and was placed in my hands.
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i va passar a les meves mans.
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And what had happened
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I allò que havia passat
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was the circle had closed,
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va ser que el cercle es va tancar,
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it had become a circle --
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allò havia esdevingut un cercle
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and that epiphany I talked about
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i aquesta revelació de què us he parlat
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presented itself.
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es va revelar.
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The epiphany is
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La revelació és
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that death is a part of life.
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que la mort és part de la vida.
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She saved my life;
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Ella va salvar la meva vida;
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I and my partner saved hers.
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jo i la meva parella vam salvar la seva.
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And you know, that part of life needs everything
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I, sabeu? Aquesta part de la vida necessita tot allò
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that the rest of life does.
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que la resta de la vida necessita.
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It needs truth and beauty,
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Necessita veritat i bellesa
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and I'm so happy it's been mentioned so much here today.
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i estic molt content que avui s'esmenti tant aquí.
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It also needs --
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També necessita...
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it needs dignity,
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necessita dignitat,
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love and pleasure,
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amor i plaer.
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and it's our job to hand those things out.
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I és tasca nostra donar aquestes coses.
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Thank you.
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Gràcies.
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(Applause)
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(Aplaudiments)
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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