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Jok Church: A circle of caring
Jok Church: En sirkel av omsorg
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I dette 3-minutter lange foredraget forteller tegneserieskaper og læremester Jok Church en sterk historie om læreren som brydde seg om ham da ingen andre gjorde det -- og hvordan han gjengjeldte gaven.
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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Du vet, Jeg skriver for barn,
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and I'm probably America's
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og jeg er sannsynligvis USAs
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most widely read children's author, in fact.
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mest leste barnebokforfatter.
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And I always tell people
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Og jeg forteller alltid folk
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that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist.
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at jeg vil ikke komme og se ut som en vitenskapsmann.
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You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers,
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Jeg kan komme kledd som en bonde, eller i lær,
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and no one has ever chose farmer.
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og ingen har noen gang valgt bonde.
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I'm here today to talk to you
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Jeg er her i dag for å fortelle dere
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about circles and epiphanies.
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om sirkler og åpenbaringer.
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And you know, an epiphany
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Og dere vet, en åpenbaring
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is usually something you find that you dropped someplace.
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er som regel noe du finner ut at du har mistet et sted.
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You've just got to go around the block
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Du må bare gå en ekstra runde
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to see it as an epiphany.
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for å se det som en åpenbaring.
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That's a painting of a circle.
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Det er et maleri av en sirkel.
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A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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En venn av meg laget det -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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It's the kind of complicated circle
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Det er den typen komplisert sirkel
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that I'm going to tell you about.
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som jeg skal fortelle dere om.
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My circle began back in the '60s
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Min sirkel startet i 60-årene
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in high school in Stow, Ohio
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på ungdomsskolen i Stow, i Ohio
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where I was the class queer.
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hvor jeg var klassens skeiving.
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I was the guy beaten up bloody
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Jeg var han som ble banket opp til jeg blødde
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every week in the boys' room,
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hver uke på guttetoalettet,
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until one teacher saved my life.
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helt til en lærer reddet livet mitt.
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She saved my life by letting me go to the bathroom
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Hun reddet livet mitt ved å la meg gå på toalettet
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in the teachers' lounge.
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på lærerværelset.
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She did it in secret.
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Hun gjorde det i hemmelighet,
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She did it for three years.
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hun gjorde det i tre år,
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And I had to get out of town.
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og jeg måtte komme meg bort derfra.
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I had a thumb, I had 85 dollars,
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Jeg hadde en (haike)tommel, jeg hadde 85 dollar,
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and I ended up in San Francisco, California --
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og jeg endte opp i San Fransisco, California --
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met a lover --
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møtte en elsker --
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and back in the '80s, found it necessary
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og på 80-tallet fant jeg det nødvendig
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to begin work on AIDS organizations.
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å jobbe for AIDS organisasjoner.
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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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fikk jeg en telefonsamtale midt på natten
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from that teacher, Mrs. Posten,
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fra denne læreren, Fru Posten,
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who said, "I need to see you.
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som sa "Jeg må se deg.
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I'm disappointed
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Jeg er skuffet
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that we never got to know each other as adults.
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over at vi aldri fikk lære hverandre å kjenne som voksne.
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Could you please come to Ohio,
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Kunne du være så snill å komme til Ohio,
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and please bring that man
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og ta med deg mannen
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that I know you have found by now.
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som jeg vet du har funnet deg nå.
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And I should mention
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Og jeg bør nevne
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that I have pancreatic cancer,
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at jeg har bukspyttkjertel-kreft,
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and I'd like you to please
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så jeg håper du kan
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be quick about this."
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være litt rask."
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Well, the next day we were in Cleveland.
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Vel, neste dag var vi i Cleveland.
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We took a look at her, we laughed, we cried,
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Vi så på henne, vi lo, vi gråt,
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and we knew that she needed to be in a hospice.
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og vi visste at hun trengte å være i et pleiehjem.
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We found her one, we got her there,
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Vi fant henne et, og vi tok henne med dit,
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and we took care of her
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og vi tok oss av henne
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and watched over her family,
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og passet på familien hennes,
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because it was necessary.
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fordi det trengtes,
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It's something we knew how to do.
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og det var noe vi visste hvordan vi kunne gjøre.
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And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult
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Og akkurat når kvinnen som ønsket å lære meg å kjenne som voksen
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got to know me,
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ble kjent med meg,
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she turned into a box of ashes
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ble hun til en boks med aske
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and was placed in my hands.
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og plassert i mine hender.
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And what had happened
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Og det som hadde skjedd
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was the circle had closed,
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var at sirkelen ble sluttet,
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it had become a circle --
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den hadde blitt en sirkel --
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and that epiphany I talked about
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og den åpenbaringen jeg snakket om
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presented itself.
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presenterte seg.
02:51
The epiphany is
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Åpenbaringen er
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that death is a part of life.
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at døden er en del av livet.
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She saved my life;
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Hun reddet livet mitt,
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I and my partner saved hers.
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og jeg og min partner reddet hennes.
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And you know, that part of life needs everything
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Og du vet, den delen av livet trenger alt
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that the rest of life does.
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som resten av livet trenger.
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It needs truth and beauty,
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Det trenger sannhet og skjønnhet,
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and I'm so happy it's been mentioned so much here today.
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og jeg er veldig glad for at det har blitt nevnt så mye her i dag.
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It also needs --
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Det trenger også --
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it needs dignity,
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det trenger verdighet,
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love and pleasure,
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kjærlighet og nytelse.
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and it's our job to hand those things out.
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Og det er vår jobb å gi disse tingene.
03:21
Thank you.
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Takk.
03:23
(Applause)
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(Applause)
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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