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807 East Avenue South
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601
(608) 789-7600
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Had conversations on and off for the last 12 years and I really enjoyed that I really enjoyed watching you bridge the schools with the community I mean just watching how somehow things work as might my cavities, my kids is an example to my four children went to the construction academy at Central High School and had the opportunity to build a garage build a house. My middle son who is enjoying a career now as a as a union carpenter. My youngest son is taking this class at Central High School minutes. Cool to see how to getting kids real life skills that they're going to use after they graduate. Well I think it's I think this is an important part of schools. Fact of the matter is your schools or your community in your community are really your schools. It's a symbiotic relationship and so we really take pride in building strong relationships but also making sure that were were helping students navigate for themselves, their interests, what they might be interested in. We do several skill surveys to help students, determine get some ideas about what they may want to do as they get older and what they may want to consider that nothing locks that under stone your children may be used as some of those who said I always wanted to be a coward. They watched you and the work that you do. Or maybe they took a skill servant said carpenter is one of something I want to get into. They look at what I do. Others, like I want to be in radio's path of a hole in the school District of La Crosse. We have been working diligently to establish opportunities for students and so along the way. Not only have we established the construction academy. We have also have a health science Academy that it's in. Since 10th 10th year we've had a few hundred kids move through this health science Academy grades 11 and 12 and it's really the epitome of I think strong partnerships and that we have for instance as partners. We have male health systems with Gunderson health systems we have UW well in the turbo and we have Western all involved in kids getting credit there getting opportunities inside of that and the getting opportunities off of our campus. It's an important part. We try to do our academies is a get kids off the campus is the most authentic opportunities they can find and we can provide for them inside of the community and those those entities. Those organizations that are working with us are are all about it at the same time they're also looking for a future employees lets us put that on the table. Of course, what were trying to do is to try to find connections. Our health science Academy. For instance, one of the things that our students are required to do is to still watch a surgery. Sometimes you find out the student finds out quickly that the sight of blood. It is not for them and so the sale Decided I am knocking to be a nurse or I'm not cyanotic of this, but I might want to look at something else in the health field really help students start to understand what they are really excited about by actually trying some of those things out and it also saves parents the money and tuition because it helps the students don't maybe go down up a better path maybe what their thing because they've experienced a little bit in their understanding they're talking to adults there talking to mentors and the mentor saying here's what we have to do and we do this, and here's how this happens and so I think that these community connections, the academies, the partnerships that we been running are so important. So why is a sense of community important in schools, but I think that community means everything inside the heart of the community as a strong relationships and so we whether talking about a neighborhood you're talking about a school being at the heart of the neighborhood and or vice versa. It's the relationships in the positive relationships that we bring to school every single day, student to student adults and students and families and other adults. Parents working side-by-side. This community building pieces all based on relationships in the good strong heavy webs that we create on relationships of a metaphor that I use sometimes when we talk about some of our programming and many times people will say well we need to have a strong safety net on our community. Absolutely I get that but I think of Safetynet. I'm thinking of the people in the flying trapeze at the way top of some sort of circus tent and now they're going back and forth and then got a safety net below them so they don't get hurt if and when they fall, and for our students. I think that a safety net is not the right thing. I think that what we need is a trampoline and needs to be so tightly woven that when a student does fall when a student misses the grab from that adult way up there. The top that they fall hit the trampoline, but they come right back up and someone grabs onto them again because it's to let him have a safety net just cushions the false they don't hit the floor, but hardly ever get back up again except starting at the very thing I climbing a ladder all the way back up to the top again I will make sure that we've got a good Safetynet that's really tight like a Leica, you know like the trampoline so student can bounce and get right back into it again. Were all in this together and we all need to be working together, we need to be supporting our children. They are the commodity that we have in front of us is so important for the future and well-being. Everyone one of us. We need to acknowledge that we need to support them

Contact School District of La Crosse
807 East Avenue South
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601
(608) 789-7600
https://www.lacrosseschools.org/

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I had the opportunity to be a part of your rebuilding for learning and it's in an initiative that I know that the school District of La Crosse had for quite a few years. A chance for teachers to get together and explain some of the things they're doing to some of the other teachers. That way the teachers can all can learn from each other exactly. So we really established a connection between the school District of La Crosse and employees from the county employees from the city and what we were really trying to accomplish with that the organization was once really happening. How can we best support our students, our families, what we've seen. I think over the last few years is that we do have more and more of our students living in crisis. Actually, sometimes at home for various reasons, very complicated reason sometimes and sometimes in navigating those crises really involves a lot of different individuals including social workers, including child protective services, etc. and so what we really try to do in the first few years of rebuilding for learning was to bring together individuals we've had about 100 2025 people at our first one and it really was to bring together individuals from the city and the County and the school district and just have face-to-face meetings and build relationships with one another so that when it is time for us to have a discussion about a certain situation that we all should be involved with and supporting a family and supporting a child that is not the first time we've had a discussion with each other. We recognize faces. We recognize voices and we can get past those sub pleasantries and really get into the challenges that might be existing so that we can best help a child and get that child back on the right track again and so it started as a small group about 120 people last year. I think it was 1400 and we are a La Crosse Center and so we had our staff there several concurrent sessions about a myriad of different issues and challenges that were experiencing center classrooms in our community. All of these things are so intertwined and just having a good opportunity to visit with one another about that and also to gain knowledge from others. Send some experts in the field so that we can do our jobs better and I'm wondering Randy if a lot of community members don't realize we do have a group of kids that are homeless in a group of kids that are maybe writing a couch and are at a friend's house rather than having a home to go to because it that they're not getting along with their families or that their living in the car somewhere because they don't have a place to go. Actually, we've talked about school safety a little bit before Bob and I think that what's unfortunate is that for many of our students. School is the safest place in the life it's the place for them to be is the place were they feel safest all the time because outside of school, they're not always sure sure about their own safety. Sometimes whether it's a difficult living situation that their involvement or whether it's of friends who really aren't so much friends along the way and so these are some of the things we try better to understand. We really have been working hard to better understand the cultural pieces that come alongside of the solid instruction and making sure that everyone is welcome everyone has a role of the inclusive practices that are teachers are really trying to also better understand how do we work to make sure every single child is valued every child who somehow is marginalized in our community. Our job in public education is to un-marginalize it goes deeper than just while here, let's take another test store here. Let's do this intervention on reading or mathematics, let's address some of these challenges here so that you can do better but common theme has been a trauma informed care trauma informed understanding what it means to help a kid what it means to be a teacher who is better understanding of trauma informed of what it means for us ourselves as educators along the way. That's been a common theme just about through every one of these except we ask a different nuances each time we understand better how culture tolerates how socioeconomics impacts that particular piece and so these are important things for us as educators and now is the time for our schools also for our parents to be together and how we support our children how we build the character how we ensure that our students are better understanding the challenges that they own face that they face right now because of more we do that now, the better we understand each other. Right now, the better chance a child has somewhere down the road to really be a productive citizen that they really stand out to be already. This is help the child to be an individual no interest to be okay for some students, not to be successful when it comes time to take tests and/or other ways that we measure success along the way but some is not okay anymore. It has to be 100% of our students in order to do that we have to work with students at that individual level lesson mathematics and reading once more and other factors that are going on though in the life of the child and how we might be able to support or mitigate the edits to these partnerships and are rebuilding for learning efforts in connecting dots with several different entities and educators that we have a much better chance to focus on the individual child as opposed to depending on a system of standardization that has never met the needs of every child

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The city vision 2020 podcasts this month featuring Jay oderguard he's got the longest business card in the city of La Crosse is a park rec forestry building and grounds director that I miss anything, to do it with the world as it is not. It's the whole co-fed and all that stuff is a city of La Crosse Park and wrecked department do anything different because of the colder times we try to revolve with recommendation stricture walls are cool. We have been able to keep our part (and we had the playground cold for a while the folder open backup really were just being with all of the culture of the facility were seeing our huge upswing in our and all landing and trail you about the boat landings. Is there some new stuff this year with the bulimics this year we've gone to computerized registration system so people don't have to show up with three but the little yellow and bolts anymore. It's just a lot cleaner people. Bella Vita passes online, which is really helpful for guys that want to go location at 5 o'clock Saturday morning I want to do the annual past year, they can buy that mine done with no said kid per person or per vehicle per vehicle that's a slight change where we used to register the trailer. Now we register the vehicle depending on how you are set up. It can be good and bad but you know technology is constantly moving forward. My staff yell at me all the time because I still like paper calendars and in all stuff like that but they got me convinced on this one for talking thoughts. Let's talk a little bit about life vests in the past, the city has had a loaner program for life fast. Is that something that's continuing this year have a warrant program for life. The and are less Copeland landing and their seventh Street bowl landing, but with everything going on in the pool school. We are actually targeting came program beaches and so that way people can call me next. Don't feel comfortable in the water kid can get a light that has to go swim and it's something that we think will be beneficial to the community and really dealing with the tough situation all around. One of the things that I really enjoy doing the last couple years is kayaking and I know that I got a penny on Park and put my own kayak and thereby noticing as a supplemental's. There are those available for anybody to use RDF to be a city resident to rent the house. Although there are available with anybody, and quite honestly, they're very affordable. Not only do we have kayak was paddleboard and with everything going on. We are sanitizing admin between the different uses and it's just a great way especially for people that don't have a lot of experience they can hop in one, then paddle around in the pool in which is the current free area that really works well for beginners is any special programming because of 19th yeah so our traditional summer programs were all canceled about a month or so ago, but staff has been diligently working to Kino after some of those program logistics so we can match up with recommendations as far as social distancing and whatnot were really looking by the end of June to get going on and offering some programs that we understand parents with kids right now that are really in need of finding different opportunities for those that do participate in order to be offering some of our camp programs. All of our tiny tot program playground type programs we are gonna be looking at getting tennis for kids up and running, along with some of our 12 and under 14 and under. And, number programs, eliminating tournaments, reducing side of the T practice location but I'll let you know again we see the importance of having something for kids and community anticipated in

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How important is it to keep on a schedule and a regular schedule when you're working important great format so that the first thing that you all can do to make it start at the local dump on the call will pop up gratefulness. You probably know, to purchase a new car right you know seen it a few times the lot on the way home you feel 20 of the incarnate brightly colored thing is here safe every time, but you also got everybody else is the same car right but it's the same thing with the grateful that you will start her day out with listing 3 to 5 things that were grateful for. And the reason behind that is because you know if you're looking for it. You're going to help that you know something that's really challenging the club think you're grateful for somebody that literally is the simplest coffee is another day the deep and meaningful to help us stay connected number one of the team and then number two just kinda makes us focus on what was grateful for and make that, you know, things were grateful for because Of mind that how we start our day and will go through. We have a we call the top five and five really loose term wear a loose number and the three really major important thing didn't become today's the 27 major things that need to be done for the day that we have a list of what were going to you yesterday so we can keep with one another and talk about what happened yesterday when I got going on today allows for some potential redirecting to redirect the team forget them handling focus on this area, but generally the team is really very self-directed and data kind of debate on what needs to be done and Elizabeth up for success for the for the day and then it allows for like when you have those affection and then when your dog to go out whatever it is like to give you something to come back to home base say okay my right and figure out what to do next help you focus you from the people are lacking focus during this quarantine time notice the difference that we have a system that can attract the things that are being done and noticed that a couple of my reporters and numbers have decreased and I noticed the numbers increased with with a couple of other one had noticed that the numbers that have decreased are the one to have children at home now like their workload and what they're actually accomplishing. I think it stayed consistent. I think it's done really well with that but I think sometimes it's the little things and making sure that things are noted in the system has been lacking. I guess a little bit a little bit more than normal. You normally they're very great detail and I think now like you have some kind of taking the extra time to make sure it put in the system and that effort is put into educating our children or taking care of our animals, but overall and are still very, very productive throughout the day and it just the work style the work habits had to change a little bit not noticeable from a numbers perspective as far as how much a video showing the system, but overall there accomplishing what they need to so show me how you think that the workforce is going to change once everybody does get back to work and how is that going to affect morale around the offices. That's a great question. I think it's going to depend on industry, I can tell you just from speaking from our industry that there are going to be some changes there some things that you know it's it's much easier that I racked my brain trying to figure out we've been relatively flexible with people in my working home once a month or if there's a snowstorm, things of that nature that I think will probably change it. Where is the employees that really thrive working from home can work from home more knowingly make a regular thing where a couple days a week that working from home on a regular basis. You know, interviewing and things of that nature we done video interviewing or but we always select that as a last resort. I suppose you know somebody was a long distance away or will have a scheduling issue because the person working full-time always been kind of a last resort, and I think we might change that. Where the first resort and the internal interview as a last resort. Time will tell. You think that that personal connection is is important, but thinking of just from like a public safety perspective, it may make sense to have the video interviews that are first resort is that backup you always mention the word we women talking are the employees that work for referral staff and employees overflowing staffing solutions or they employees of businesses that you help get hired. Technically their employees on referral English and payroll, we take care of sending Imperial taxes. We cover the workers comp insurance and employment insurance. So technically their employees of reprocessing pollution being supervised by our clients and were talking about temporary employees and then of course that internal employees are

Chris Jones is well known for his appearance on America’s Got Talent when he made the impossible happen: Known germaphobe Howie Mandel shook hands with Heidi, Howard, and Mel live. Since his first TV appearance, Chris has performed on shows like The Steve Harvey Show, Windy City Live, Good Day Chicago, Penn and Teller, Scam School, and the Adam Carolla Show.
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One word Chris Jones podcast talking with Chris this month about how how is it bringing a child in to the world. Now when we're dealing with everything that were dealing with with you know that the riots around the country and around the world the pandemic that we've all been basically quarantined from everybody else. Is it scary to be a new dad or a dad to be in this time. I'm so excited. So excited. I have a little bit of perspective because I got into his three books and over so you know you if you have been an argument in 1920 and I just want to read the case, you can look back and take a minute there will be done in the past to get the interesting thing is that my twins were born in 2001. In November 2001 after the attack on the on our country and on the 9/11 attack is and at that time I was scared to death like what are we doing bringing children into this world at this time but you know they've done really well and then they graduate this year when everything's kinda shut down so I mean they had a couple of trying times. I think that'll push them to be that much better in the future, and my hope is that's the case for baby Jones as well. Very good perspectives that motivate 18 years old. Yeah. Like the young kids like your kids age can't fight a war that noted they are going to happen if there were any evildoers and therapist to be a fast war were just getting it the dominant he's been dead for a while now, when you see the world doing now that you know you had the riots happening around the country and you know I heard this morning on the radio that there happening around the world that there's some writing happening around the world for George Floyd. Do you think that this will end up being something or changing for something like that when Rodney King when that happened. I thought that that was going to change the world and I don't think it did gas and try to change the world as I try to make the world stop spending anything like this change of enactment of Jackson, but we've been with the world. We spend together. You know that the long way. I still have hope because I'm not going to be salt." I was reading very light misinformation going around saying that George Floyd didn't die that the priest and actor and stirring up some conversations that should not be a conversation at all. So who comes up with this conspiracy BS that's what I want to know this thing is true for Sandy Hook people so there's to get your gun Nazis had PR people ban public relations that even the client had public relations people they work on their image, and someone said no when and if he created this happened, yes, let's push that story and the accident happened. That's why I love journalism even more now. One of the first things he suddenly started talking today is that you are reading in the history books and that this kind of stuff is happened forever, and I believe that what you just I believe that I think that nowadays we're more aware of it hyper. Where is it now because of the fact that we have everything at the palm of her hands who can speak and get information immediately if not sooner. Assess happening and things in the past weren't always that way because I mean in a think about when when our parents were children that they went to the movie theater and theirs in Israel at the beginning of the about of a show. Oh yeah, that was under comedy side think that the bank robbers back in the day. Yeah, they rob a bank. Maybe have gone and shoot their initials into the side of the wall. I get it with copper and the boy. No police and then you know that when I was because I'm 20 years older than you. When I was a kid we'd find about it on you know in the newspaper because it came in. No sooner when you were a kid. It was things are on television immediately when it happened because they had to come up with, you know, ways to do that and then you know when my kids is Internet and by the time your child is older, who it might just be like thought processed into their heads. I know that so that's a weird way of thinking about things, but immediately look at how how things have changed and how we get our news now compared to the way that we got it in the past and it's just really right. I get that physical paper to my house delivery, five days a week. So many things you have so much technology like the CCX to watch the weather channel and she's like, how come we can't stop hurting we can on their we can't stop 20th is running the family's home. The more things change, Chris the morning to say the same minute identity feel their status in other states. I think the date that I got the answers and then something happens that I have no idea what the hell's going on anywhere you have control of my own life. What about something else you know is right. It's crazy. So let me you know I hate to but I hate to bring race into our conversation, we doing so being a black man now with what's going what's going on you know with with the everything in the in the world right now. I mean, is it different than it was two weeks ago, all without a doubt to his guy went running and running and now I go running and I don't want to wait a police car, but I feel obligated to live in a neighborhood that has a lot of police officer next to me. I don't want to leave. It's not right away when walking the dog. Like to go running my running too fast, and still something. How do I look like I'm clearly a runner and not losing someone's home to me that is me being sensitive remember an Georgia man was shot by civilian for running or jogging and in that man was are you are you more aware of it because it because you're black I'm aware of that I did not say that I would be oh you mean when you came to Chicago in your talk about when he got pulled over and that there are some black people and excellent. He told the story we were laughing at what she said a little bit of you being naïve in your my wonderful friend said I was very quiet and I have the little things are opposite and we were like yeah like that's where it starts to get pulled over like we asked permission on the department let them know my wallet in my pocket. Can I get it, like we get super scared we get pulled over when I was told the story and then you do, you mentioned that to me I was you know at the time is 2019 or 2018 and whenever was no surprise that happens, you know, in those days, and now all this is 2020 and the PS it happened in Minneapolis is unacceptable. I mean it's it it's hard to believe that that kind of crap happens in 2020 and then I'm embarrassed to say I don't member the name of the way I think it was Breanna. She was in bed with her boyfriend or husband and police Louisville first in the home without a warrant would identify and complete the her boyfriend was in the house was a burglar hired a couple shot fire multiple shots and they killed her and she was the first to find out if we can't find her and she is gone now but it wasn't on camera and the man who shot the burglar was brought up on trials tempted and drop now but Stacy she argued. Why is it that when a black man shot killed by police was unarmed. Get national attention and was a black woman don't hear about it. That's it. That's a legitimate question Chris. I don't know if you think I don't. Do you think a lot of what we have or having now is caused by media. I wouldn't say that I wouldn't say that that's wrong. If we unpacked some ugly stuff he always gives more prestige and power to men. And so when something is fighting against the powers that be. A man is usually attacked track down what happened to unpacked it further and be very ugly if a black man, was accused of raping a white woman went to kill him. I would show up in 2020 oh nine in the okay okay okay you get accused of like Emmett till was a Chicago kitty went out and allegedly whistled at a white woman and a light knock showed up or he was staying his cousin, and held them for a few days… I just tortured and then the men were later acquitted, and then wrote a book saying and I was one of the great awareness about all this to say we don't protect women fighting to get married and got to that happens to woman when I will be doing in their claim that the boat when it's on camera. I would like okay now I see what I believe are all the facts and opinions and then people hate it is semi final thoughts they Chris last night I couldn't sleep too well that I kept thinking about all lives matter. One of the suburbs of Chicago. There was a black watch another project in all lives just across the street and if you're going to say all live in that I'm saying you would like an angry person you are going that I don't love arguing all lives matter, my life matter as a white person on each putting down my value as a white person I would say you don't believe all lives matter because it is separate from the parent right now and intentions you don't believe in ice member life matters. You don't believe that some across the border illegally matters you don't believe that kids have the right to grow up and not get shot in our own American schools are. You don't believe all my it's a fine argument to last about two seconds really truly heart wanted to be an advocate for all lives matter worth you wouldn't be angry in the way that you are.

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Franciscan Spirituality Center
920 Market Street
La Crosse, WI 54601

Steve Spilde: Welcome. My guest today is Sister Jolynn Brehm. She is a Sister with the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. I’ve been blessed to know Jolynn for many years. She was a longtime supervisor in our Spiritual Direction Preparation Program. Welcome, Jolynn.

Jolynn Brehm: Thank you. Thank you.

Steve: Today we are joining by Zoom, and this is kind of a new experience for both of us. But it’s a testament that even old dogs can learn new tricks.

Jolynn: Exactly. We’ll either prove it or disprove it.

Steve: Sounds good. Sounds good. So tell me, Jolynn, how long have you been a Sister?

Jolynn: Well, I entered the community in 1954. So actually, that’s about 66 years ago. This year I would be celebrating my 61st year of profession. It’s been an interesting and wonderful long life.

Steve: Amazing. Tell me where you grew up, and tell me where the desire to become a sister, how that evolved.

Jolynn: I was born and raised on a dairy farm in Colby, Wisconsin, in 1939, and I was the first liveborn member of my family. The sister who was to be a year older than me, my mom and dad’s first child, was stillborn. So when I came along, I think they kind of favored me. Obviously they were happy I was alive, so that was my experience as the firstborn of my family. My family heritage, which is very interesting that I’ve kind of thought about with these questions and this opportunity … But I realize that on both sides of my family – paternal and maternal – we are four generations of farmers. So that is very significant, and it has allowed me now to really delve into why it seems my genetics are deeply, deeply grounded in the land. Everything about nature, everything about creation, everything about how I relate to life, to people, to living is all pretty much in the framework of anything that has to do with nature and creation. It would be understandable because having great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents who worked the land, they understood how to live with the land.

Steve: Were all of your relatives kind of around the farm there in Colby?

Jolynn: Yes, they were. I would say probably within maybe a one-hour radius we had at least five or six different homesteaded farms in both my father’s side and my mother’s side of the family was near Auburndale, Wisconsin. That’s the central Wisconsin area – all the same kind of area. I was led to think about religious life when I entered Saint Mary’s Catholic School in Colby, Wisconsin. The principal at that time was Sister Alice McMullen. For some reason or other, we already made a connection when I was already in the first grade. She would let me go over to be with my friends or whatever. Then she left Saint Mary’s in Colby when I graduated from the eighth grade. But the year of eighth grade, she, after afternoon recess, would stand behind my desk since I was tall and in the last seat, she would stand behind there and pray a prayer to the Sacred Heart. Then we also had a family in Colby who had three sisters as FSPAs. The dad invited some of us to go and visit La Crosse, Wisconsin Saint Rose Convent, which I did. From there on, I just sensed from Alice McMullen that I admired who she was, who the sisters were, and so she kind of facilitated my entering. I also had an aunt, a sister of my mother’s, who was also a member of the community. So I had a connection with FSPA, and that’s where I entered.

Steve: The Sister would stand behind you and pray to the Sacred Heart.

Jolynn: Yes.

Steve: For those who are not Catholic, please explain what that means.

Jolynn: That way of taking time out in our school day to have some quiet and to be attentive to the idea that we weren’t just who we were, that God was an entity in our lives. And as eighth graders, I...

Franciscan Spirituality Center
920 Market Street
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My guest today is Sister Jolynn Brehm. She is a sister with the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. I've been blessed to know Jolynn for many years. I know that nature and connection to the earth, to the universe, is an important part of your spirituality. Talk about your experience with Native spirituality as a result of that experience. Were you able to pick up any of that? Not at that time specifically, but I’ve had the privilege of ministering in the Woodruff-Minocqua area, which is eight miles from Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, and one of the things that I did was any time one of the women especially from Lac du Flambeau would offer programs through the technical institute branch in Minocqua, I would always attend. And there was one very specific time when, Rochelle was her name, she offered the way in which the rituals of the native people were so significant, and we participated in some of those rituals. Well, that really grounded me in the fact that, you know, in my religious tradition, in my spirituality, we have a lot of rituals. Is it fair to say that those experiences learning the Native perspective on spirituality help you to have a better understanding of your own Catholic tradition? I would say yes, because what it allowed me to do is to say, OK, what is the underlying way that all peoples are invited to be aware of the greater dynamic in their lives? How are all peoples invited to sense that spirit world? So, when I sensed how the Native people were so in touch with the Creator and everything that was created and how all of earth was gift, I began to realize that in our Catholic tradition, yes, we, too, all from way, way back when, use earth items as ways of entering into a ritual that seemed to connect us with the divine. It was the use of the wheat and the bread and the wine of the grapes. So, in our Catholic tradition that particular piece of bread and wine from the earth is now very central, very central to our way of ritualizing today. Also, the use of water, water was very significant in the lives of many, many people. It was their sustenance and their way of honoring; they treasured it. We use water to bless, to sprinkle, to call forth that blessing; the baptismal water is part of our rituals. We are also very much in tune with the sense of the spirit, that there's something beyond ourselves that is guiding us. And so we use the image of fire for that, and I think that many of the people in our Christian tradition, including our Catholic use of fire, very often, it kind of draws you into a sense of something much more overriding in our lives and very powerful. You used the word presence. I'm interested in looking back over your life when you first became aware of that presence, even maybe not at the time, but looking back, like OK, maybe already I was in touch with the present. So, after milking the cows, we would go around the barn to what we called the barn approach. It was the leading way to get into the upper part of the barn. Like an earth ramp that would go up to the higher level. Yes, like an earth ramp. Yes, definitely, and that was wide enough to accommodate all of the comings and goings of the horses, pulling the bales and all of that kind of thing. So, my mom and dad and I, at that time I was very, very young, probably 3 or something like that, we would sit up there and face the west, and we were finished milking most of the time at sunset, so we would sit there and admire not only looking over the fields and seeing how they were growing, the crops, but also just to be totally immersed in that beautiful, sunset sky. And, of course, in the country you have sky unending that you can see, and so it was very overwhelming, and I remember somehow the sense that that was God's presence, and my mom and dad – I...

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