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JOK CHURCH: A CIRCLE OF JOK CHURCH: VNG LUN

HI CA LNG TT
CARING
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

V DIN GI:

Jok Church is the creator of the

science-education comic strip "You
Can With Beakman and Jax" and the
zany TV series "Beakman's World."

Jok Church l ngi sng lp ra b

truyn tranh hi mang tnh gio dc
khoa hc tn l Bn c th vi
Beakman v Jax v lot chng
trnh hi hc trn TV Th gii ca
Beakman.

ABOUT THIS TALK:

V BI PHT BIU:

In this 3-minute talk, cartoonist and

educator Jok Church tells a moving
story of the teacher who cared for
him when no one else did -- and how
he returned the favor.

Trong bi pht biu di 3 pht ny,

Jok Church nh gio dc kim ngh
s v tranh hot hnh k li mt cu
chuyn cm ng v ngi gio vin
chm sc ng khi ng b b ri
v qu trnh m ng n p cng
lao .

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You know, what I do is write for

children, and I'm probably America's
most widely read children's author,
in fact. And I always tell people that
I don't want to show up looking like
a scientist. You can have me as a
farmer, or in leathers, and no one has
ever chose farmer I'm here today to
talk to you about circles and
epiphanies. And you know, an
epiphany is usually something you
find that you dropped someplace.
You've just got to go around the
block to see it as an epiphany.

Bn bit y, cng vic ca ti l

vit truyn cho thiu nhi, v thc t,
ti chc chn l tc gi vit truyn
thiu nhi c bit n nhiu nht.
Ti lun lun ni vi mi ngi rng
ti khng mun xut hin m trng
ging nh mt nh khoa hc. Bn c
th nhn thy ti trong b dng ca
mt nng dn, hay trong mt b
da m khng ai ngh rng trng
ging mt nng dn. Ti y ngy
hm nay ni vi cc bn v vng
lun hi v s hin linh ca Cha. V
bn bit y, lng tin vo s hin
linh ca Cha l mt iu g m
bn lun nhn ra rng bn nh ri
u . Bn ch cn i vng quanh
ta nh v ngm n th cng l
s hin linh ca Cha ri.

That's a painting of a circle. A friend

of mine did that -- Richard
Bollingbroke. It's the kind of
complicated circle that I'm going to
tell you about. My circle began back
in the 60s in high school in Stow,
Ohio where I was the class queer. I
was the guy beaten up bloody every
week in the boys' room, until one
teacher saved my life. She saved my
life by letting me go to the bathroom
in the teachers' lounge. She did it in
secret, she did it for three years, and
I had to get out of town. I had a
thumb, I had $85, and I ended up in
San Francisco, California -- met a
lover -- and back in the 80s, found it
necessary to begin work on AIDS
organizations.

l mt vng trn trong hi ha.

Mt ngi bn ca ti v n -Richard Bollingbroke. l mt
vng trn phc tp m sau y ti s
k cho cc bn nghe. Vng trn ca
ti bt u t nhng nm 1960 mt
trng trung hc ca th trn Stow,
bang Ohio, khi , ti l mt a tr
b gh lnh. Tun no cng vy, ti
b nh n chy mu trong phng
nam sinh, cho n khi mt gio vin
cu ri cuc i ti. C cu ti
bng cch cho php ti s dng
bung tm trong phng ngh ca gio
vin. C lm iu ny mt cch b
mt trong vng 3 nm cho n khi ti
phi ri khi th trn. Lc , ti
vng v, trong ti ch c 85 -la v
ti dng chn San Francisco,

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------California ti gp c ngi mnh

yu v trong nhng nm 1980, ti
nhn thy mnh cn phi bt u lm
vic cho mt t chc t thin v cn
bnh AIDS.

About three or four years ago, I got a

phone call in the middle of the night
from that teacher, Mrs. Posten who
said, "I need to see you. I'm
disappointed that we never got to
know each other as adults. Could you
please come to Ohio, and please
bring that man that I know you have
found by now. And I should mention
that I have pancreatic cancer, and I'd
like you to please be quick about
this."

Vo khong3 hay 4 nm trc, ti

nhn c mt cuc gi vo lc na
m t gio vin ca ti, c Posten,
c ni: C mun gp em. C rt
bun v chng ta cha gp nhau ln
no k t khi em trng thnh. Em c
th n Ohio ch, v lm n hy
mang theo ngi n ng m c tin
rng gi y em tm ra. Chc c
nn bo vi em, c ang b ung th
tuyn ty v c mong rng em hy
n Ohio tht nhanh.

Well, the next day we were in

Cleveland. We took a look at her, we
laughed, we cried, and we knew that
she needed to be in a hospice. We
found her one, we got her there, and
we took care of her and watched over
her family, because it was necessary,
it's something we knew how to do.
And just as the woman who wanted
to know me as an adult got to know
me, she turned into a box of ashes
and was placed in my hands. And
what had happened was the circle
had closed, it had become a circle -and that epiphany I talked about
presented itself.

Ngy hm sau chng ti

Cleveland. Chng ti ti thm c,
chng ti ci v khc, v chng ti
bit c cn phi n bnh vin dnh
cho bnh nhn hp hi. Chng ti tm
c mt bnh vin cho c v a c
ti , chng ti chm sc c v
trng nom gia nh c bi v iu
cn thit v cng l iu g m
chng ti c th lm gip c. V ri
ngi ph n mong mun gp li ti
vi cng v l mt ngi trng
thnh, c an ngh v tr thnh h
tro trn tay ti. V iu xy ra l
vng trn khp li, vng lun hi
hon thnh v s hin linh m
ti ni n hin hin.

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The epiphany is that death is a part

of life. She saved my life, I and my
partner saved hers. And you know,
that part of life needs everything that
the rest of life does. It needs truth
and beauty, and I'm so happy it's
been mentioned so much here today.
It also needs -- it needs dignity, love
and pleasure. And it's our job to hand
those things out.
Thank you.

S hin linh l ci cht cng l

mt phn ca cuc sng. C gio ca
ti gip ti, ti v bn gi ca
ti li gip c. V bn bit y,
vng lun hi ca cuc sng cn mi
th m phn cn li ca cuc sng
ny cn. N cn ci p v s chn
tht. Ti rt hnh phc v iu ny
c nhc n rt nhiu y ngy
hm nay. V n cng cn n thc
s cn phm gi, tnh yu v nim
vui. V s mnh ca chng ta l
trao nhng iu y cho nhau.
Cm n cc bn lng nghe.

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