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Jok Church: A circle of caring
Jok Church: Rrethi i Kujdesit
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Ne këtë 3 minuta bisede, kartonisti dhe edukatori Jok Church tregon nje rrefim emocionues te nje mesueseje qe u kujdes per te kur askush tjeter nuk e beri-- dhe si i'a ktheu ai kete te mirë.
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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Ju e dini qe une shkruaj për fëmijë,
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and I'm probably America's
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dhe mund te them se jam autori
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most widely read children's author, in fact.
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Amerikan me i lexuar nga femijet, ne fakt
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And I always tell people
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gjithmone i them njerezve
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that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist.
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qe nuk dua te shfaqem dhe te dukem sikur jam shkencetar.
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You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers,
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Ju mundeni te me shihni te veshur si fermer apo me lekure,
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and no one has ever chose farmer.
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dhe askush nuk ka zgjedhur fermerin.
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I'm here today to talk to you
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Sot jam ketu per te folur me ju
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about circles and epiphanies.
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per rrethet dhe epifanite.
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And you know, an epiphany
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Dhe e dini se epifania
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is usually something you find that you dropped someplace.
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eshte zakonisht dicka qe gjen qe ju kishit lene diku.
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You've just got to go around the block
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Mjafton te besh nje rreth
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to see it as an epiphany.
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per te pare qe eshte nje epifani.
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That's a painting of a circle.
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Kjo eshte pikture e nje rreth .
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A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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E ka bere nje shok i imi -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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It's the kind of complicated circle
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Eshte nje lloj qarku i komplikuar
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that I'm going to tell you about.
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qe une do t'ju tregoj.
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My circle began back in the '60s
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Qarku im fillon ne vitet 60
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in high school in Stow, Ohio
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ne shkollen e mesme ne Stow, Ohio
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where I was the class queer.
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ku isha nxenes i cuditshem.
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I was the guy beaten up bloody
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Une isha ai qe isha rrahur deri ne gjakosje
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every week in the boys' room,
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cdo jave ne banjon e djemve,
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until one teacher saved my life.
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derisa nje mesuese me shpetoi jeten.
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She saved my life by letting me go to the bathroom
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Me shpetoi jeten duke me lejuar te perdor banjon
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in the teachers' lounge.
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ne sallen e mesuesve.
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She did it in secret.
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Ajo e beri fshehurazi.
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She did it for three years.
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Per 3 vjet rresht.
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And I had to get out of town.
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Dhe ne fund mu desh te lija qytetin.
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I had a thumb, I had 85 dollars,
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Me autostop dhe 85 dollare ne xhep,
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and I ended up in San Francisco, California --
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perfundova ne San Francisko, Kalifornia --
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met a lover --
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takova nje te dashur --
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and back in the '80s, found it necessary
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dhe ne vitet e 80-te, e gjeta te domosdoshme
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to begin work on AIDS organizations.
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te filloj te punoj ne organizaten e AIDS
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About three or four years ago,
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Rreth 3 apo kater vite me vone
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I got a phone call in the middle of the night
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mora nje telefonat mu ne mesin e nates
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from that teacher, Mrs. Posten,
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nga mesuesi . Zonja Posten,
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who said, "I need to see you.
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e cila tha " me duhet t'ju shoh.
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I'm disappointed
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Jam e zhgenjyer
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that we never got to know each other as adults.
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qe nuk mundem te njohim njeri tjetrin si te rritur.
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Could you please come to Ohio,
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A mund te vini ne Ohio,
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and please bring that man
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dhe te lutem me sill at njeri
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that I know you have found by now.
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te cilin e di se e keni gjetur deri me tani.
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And I should mention
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Dhe duhet te them
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that I have pancreatic cancer,
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qe kam kancer pankreatik
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and I'd like you to please
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dhe ju lutem
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be quick about this."
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bejeni shpejt kete."
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Well, the next day we were in Cleveland.
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Diten tjeter ne ishim Cleveland.
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We took a look at her, we laughed, we cried,
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Ne e pame ate, qeshem, qame,
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and we knew that she needed to be in a hospice.
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dhe vrejtem se ajo duhet te ishte ne spital.
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We found her one, we got her there,
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Ne gjetem nje te tille dhe e cuam atje,
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and we took care of her
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u kujdesem per te
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and watched over her family,
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dhe u kujdesem per gjendjen e familjes se saj
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because it was necessary.
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sepse ishte e nevojshme.
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It's something we knew how to do.
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Ishte dicka qe ne dinim se si ta bejme.
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And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult
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Dhe tamam kur gruaja e cila deshironte te me njihte mua si te rritur
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got to know me,
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arriti te me njohe,
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she turned into a box of ashes
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ajo u shnderrua ne nje kuti me hi
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and was placed in my hands.
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dhe e vendosen ne duart e mija.
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And what had happened
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Dhe ajo qe kishte ndodhur
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was the circle had closed,
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ishte mbyllur qarku,
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it had become a circle --
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ishte bere nje qark--
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and that epiphany I talked about
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dhe ajo epifani qe fola me pare
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presented itself.
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u shfaq.
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The epiphany is
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Epifania ishte
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that death is a part of life.
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qe vdekja eshte pjese e jetes
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She saved my life;
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Ajo me shpetoi jeten mua;
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I and my partner saved hers.
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une dhe prinderit e mi ia shpetuam asaj.
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And you know, that part of life needs everything
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Dhe ju e dini, kjo pjese e jetes ka nevoje per cdo gje
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that the rest of life does.
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qe behet ne pjesen tjeter te jetes.
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It needs truth and beauty,
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Ka nevoje per te verteten dhe bukurine,
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and I'm so happy it's been mentioned so much here today.
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dhe jam shume i lumtur qe eshte permendur kaq shume sot ketu
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It also needs --
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Po ashtu i duhet --
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it needs dignity,
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i duhet dinjiteti,
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love and pleasure,
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dashuria dhe kenaqesia,
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and it's our job to hand those things out.
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dhe eshte detyra jone te kujdesemi per keto gjera.
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Thank you.
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Faliminderit.
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(Applause)
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(Duartrokitje)
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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