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Jok Church: A circle of caring
Jok Church: Krog skrbenja
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V tem 3-minutnem govoru stripar in vzgojitelj Jok Church pove ganljivo zgodbo o učiteljici, ki je skrbela zanj, ko nihče drug ni -- in kako ji je vrnil uslugo.
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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Veste, jaz pišem za otroke
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and I'm probably America's
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in sem pravzaprav najbrž najbolj bran
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most widely read children's author, in fact.
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ameriški pisatelj za otroke.
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And I always tell people
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In ljudem vedno govorim,
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that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist.
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da nočem priti oblečen kot znanstvenik.
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You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers,
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Lahko pridem kot kmetovalec ali v usnju
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and no one has ever chose farmer.
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in nihče ni nikoli izbral kmetovalca.
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I'm here today to talk to you
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Danes sem tukaj, da vam povem
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about circles and epiphanies.
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nekaj o krogih in razsvetljenjih.
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And you know, an epiphany
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In veste, razsvetljenje je običajno nekaj,
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is usually something you find that you dropped someplace.
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ko najdete, kar ste nekje izgubili.
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You've just got to go around the block
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Le krog morate narediti okoli bloka,
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to see it as an epiphany.
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da bi to videli kot razsvetljenje.
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That's a painting of a circle.
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To je slika kroga.
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A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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Naredil jo je moj prijatelj -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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It's the kind of complicated circle
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Je vrsta zapletenega kroga,
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that I'm going to tell you about.
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o katerem vam bom govoril.
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My circle began back in the '60s
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Moj krog se je začel v 60-ih
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in high school in Stow, Ohio
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v srednji šoli v Stowu, v Ohiu,
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where I was the class queer.
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kjer sem bil razredni peder.
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I was the guy beaten up bloody
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Bil sem fant, ki so ga vsak teden
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every week in the boys' room,
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na moškem stranišču pretepli do krvi,
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until one teacher saved my life.
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dokler mi ni ena učiteljica rešila življenja.
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She saved my life by letting me go to the bathroom
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Življenje mi je rešila s tem, da mi je dovolila uporabljati
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in the teachers' lounge.
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stranišče za učitelje.
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She did it in secret.
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To je delala na skrivaj,
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She did it for three years.
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to je delala tri leta
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And I had to get out of town.
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in moral sem oditi iz mesta.
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I had a thumb, I had 85 dollars,
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Imel sem palec, imel sem 85 $
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and I ended up in San Francisco, California --
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in končal sem v San Franciscu, v Kaliforniji --
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met a lover --
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spoznal ljubimca --
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and back in the '80s, found it necessary
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in v 80-ih sem spoznal, da moram
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to begin work on AIDS organizations.
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začeti z delom na AIDS organizacijah.
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About three or four years ago,
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Pred približno tremi ali štirimi leti
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I got a phone call in the middle of the night
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sem sredi noči dobil telefonski klic
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from that teacher, Mrs. Posten,
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od tiste učiteljice, ge. Posten,
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who said, "I need to see you.
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ki je rekla, "Moram te videti.
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I'm disappointed
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Razočarana sem,
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that we never got to know each other as adults.
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ker se nikoli nisva spoznala kot odrasla.
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Could you please come to Ohio,
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Lahko, prosim, prideš v Ohio?
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and please bring that man
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In, prosim, pripelji zraven moškega,
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that I know you have found by now.
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za katerega vem, da si ga do zdaj že našel.
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And I should mention
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In omeniti moram,
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that I have pancreatic cancer,
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da imam raka trebušne slinavke,
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and I'd like you to please
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in bi želela,
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be quick about this."
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če lahko, prosim, pohitiš s tem."
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Well, the next day we were in Cleveland.
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Naslednji dan sva bila v Clevelandu.
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We took a look at her, we laughed, we cried,
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Obiskala sva jo, smejali smo se, jokali,
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and we knew that she needed to be in a hospice.
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in vedela sva, da bi morala biti v domu za onemogle.
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We found her one, we got her there,
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Našla sva ji enega, jo odpeljala tja
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and we took care of her
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in skrbela za njo
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and watched over her family,
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in pazila na njeno družino,
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because it was necessary.
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ker je bilo to nujno,
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It's something we knew how to do.
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to je nekaj, kar sva znala delati.
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And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult
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In ravno, ko me je ženska, ki me je želela spoznati kot odraslega,
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got to know me,
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spoznala,
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she turned into a box of ashes
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se je spremenila v škatlo pepela
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and was placed in my hands.
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in bila dana v moje roke.
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And what had happened
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Kar se je zgodilo,
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was the circle had closed,
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je, da se je krog zaključil,
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it had become a circle --
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postal je krog --
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and that epiphany I talked about
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in tisto razsvetljenje, o katerem sem govoril,
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presented itself.
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se je pojavilo.
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The epiphany is
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Razsvetljenje je,
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that death is a part of life.
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da je smrt del življenja.
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She saved my life;
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Rešila je moje življenje,
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I and my partner saved hers.
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jaz in moj partner sva rešila njeno.
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And you know, that part of life needs everything
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In veste, tisti del življenja potrebuje vse,
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that the rest of life does.
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kar potrebuje tudi preostanek življenja.
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It needs truth and beauty,
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Potrebuje resnico in lepoto
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and I'm so happy it's been mentioned so much here today.
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in tako sem srečen, da je bilo to danes tukaj tolikokrat omenjeno.
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It also needs --
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Potrebuje tudi --
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it needs dignity,
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potrebuje dostojanstvo,
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love and pleasure,
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ljubezen in radost.
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and it's our job to hand those things out.
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In naša naloga je, da te stvari delimo.
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Thank you.
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Hvala.
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(Applause)
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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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