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Jok Church: A circle of caring
Jok Church: Krug brižnosti
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U ovom 3-minutnom govoru, karikaturist i edukator Jok Church priča dirljivu priču o učiteljici koja se brinula o njemu kada nitko drugi nije - i kako je on vratio tu uslugu.
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
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
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You know, what I do is write for children,
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Znate, ja pišem za djecu
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and I'm probably America's
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i vjerojatno sam
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most widely read children's author, in fact.
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najčitaniji dječji autor u Americi, zapravo.
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And I always tell people
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Uvijek kažem ljudima
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that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist.
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kako se ne želim pojaviti izgledajući kao znanstvenik.
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You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers,
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Mogu biti farmer, ili u koži
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and no one has ever chose farmer.
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i nitko još nije odabrao farmera.
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I'm here today to talk to you
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Ovdje sam danas kako bih vam pričao
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about circles and epiphanies.
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o krugovima i prosvjetljenju.
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And you know, an epiphany
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A znate, prosvjetljenje
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is usually something you find that you dropped someplace.
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je kada iznova nađete nešto za što ste smatrali da je odavno izgubljeno.
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You've just got to go around the block
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Samo morate zaći za ugao
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to see it as an epiphany.
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kako biste to vidjeli kao prosvjetljenje.
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That's a painting of a circle.
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Ovo je slika kruga.
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A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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Moj prijatelj je to napravio -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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It's the kind of complicated circle
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To je vrsta kompliciranog kruga
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that I'm going to tell you about.
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o kojemu ću vam pričati.
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My circle began back in the '60s
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Moj krug je započeo u 60-ima
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in high school in Stow, Ohio
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u srednjoj školi u Stowu, Ohio
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where I was the class queer.
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gdje sam bio razredni peder.*
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I was the guy beaten up bloody
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Bio sam krvavo pretučen
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every week in the boys' room,
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svaki tjedan u muškom zahodu,
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until one teacher saved my life.
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sve dok mi jedna učiteljica nije spasila život.
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She saved my life by letting me go to the bathroom
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Ona mi je spasila život dozvolivši mi da koristim
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in the teachers' lounge.
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zahod za učitelje.
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She did it in secret.
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Radila je to potajno,
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She did it for three years.
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radila je to tri godine
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And I had to get out of town.
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i ja sam morao otići iz tog grada.
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I had a thumb, I had 85 dollars,
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Imao sam palac, imao sam 85$
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and I ended up in San Francisco, California --
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i završio sam u San Franciscu, Kalifornija --
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met a lover --
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upoznao ljubavnika --
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and back in the '80s, found it necessary
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i u 80-ima, shvatio kako je neophodno
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to begin work on AIDS organizations.
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da započnem raditi s AIDS organizacijama.
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About three or four years ago,
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Prije otprilike tri ili četiri godine,
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I got a phone call in the middle of the night
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primio sam telefonski poziv usred noći
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from that teacher, Mrs. Posten,
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od te učiteljice, gđe. Posten
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who said, "I need to see you.
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koja je rekla, "Moram te vidjeti.
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I'm disappointed
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Razočarana sam
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that we never got to know each other as adults.
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što se nikada nismo upoznali kao odrasli.
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Could you please come to Ohio,
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Možeš li, molim te, doći u Ohio,
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and please bring that man
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i, molim te, dovedi tog čovjeka
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that I know you have found by now.
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kojeg si, znam, već dosada našao.
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And I should mention
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I moram spomenuti
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that I have pancreatic cancer,
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kako imam rak gušterače,
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and I'd like you to please
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i voljela bih ako bi mogao
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be quick about this."
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biti brz s tim."
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Well, the next day we were in Cleveland.
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I tako, idući dan bili smo u Clevelandu.
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We took a look at her, we laughed, we cried,
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Posjetili smo je, smijali smo se, plakali,
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and we knew that she needed to be in a hospice.
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i znali smo kako bi trebala biti u domu za nemoćne.
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We found her one, we got her there,
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Pronašli smo joj jedan, odvezli je tamo
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and we took care of her
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i pobrinuli se za nju,
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and watched over her family,
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i pazili na njezinu obitelj,
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because it was necessary.
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jer je bilo nužno,
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It's something we knew how to do.
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to je nešto što smo znali raditi.
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And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult
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I kada me žena koja me željela poznavati kao odraslog,
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got to know me,
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upoznala,
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she turned into a box of ashes
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pretvorila se u kutiju pepela
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and was placed in my hands.
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i stavljena je u moje ruke.
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And what had happened
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A ono što se dogodilo
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was the circle had closed,
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je da se krug zatvorio,
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it had become a circle --
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postao je krug --
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and that epiphany I talked about
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a to prosvjetljenje o kojem sam pričao
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presented itself.
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se dogodilo.
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The epiphany is
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Prosvjetljenje je u spoznaji
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that death is a part of life.
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da je i smrt dio života.
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She saved my life;
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Ona je spasila moj život,
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I and my partner saved hers.
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ja i moj partner smo spasili njezin.
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And you know, that part of life needs everything
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I znate, tom dijelu života treba sve ono
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that the rest of life does.
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što je potrebno i u ostatku života.
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It needs truth and beauty,
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Potrebna mu je istina i ljepota
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and I'm so happy it's been mentioned so much here today.
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i tako sam sretan što je toliko puta to spominjano danas ovdje.
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It also needs --
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Potrebno mu je --
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it needs dignity,
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potrebno mu je dostojanstvo,
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love and pleasure,
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ljubav i zadovoljstvo.
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and it's our job to hand those things out.
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A naš je zadatak da dijelimo te stvari.
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Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
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(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
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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