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Adam Lorentz is the director of the MTU for the city of La Crosse was covered by team to come to the forefront of his mind right now housing to you dealing with safety for the drivers and the passengers going to stop everybody in a changing process for us but you it started off in March will be when it benefits going on at looking at intake and offer guidance from the TNR locale official couple things on it. Please keep the 6 foot barrier, but the distance herself of this opinion, we did is we actually stop using the front door. The bus somebody needed for mobility device and that there is a protected interaction with the copper and the driver well.And you know which is a tough thing to do, but with all the cash handling and Handling thought that was that. That we are really good handstand kind on the buses on the front and the back and then just really trying to educate the public and post signs and just go along the same guidelines in the CDC about making sure people wash their hands and about writing cover your mouth and and am yet to get everybody webmaster. They can obviously safety is the most important thing for our operators in the public and I would really increase our cleaning rotation. If you want to call upgrading that are chemical to use something executive trying to kill the cold virus we had just installed UV wand. The driver area to help sanitize that and I really to our dreams that night after night they conjured our boxes are playing so yeah it's a lot of a lot of things. A lot of people are doing, but is negatively doing right and about ridership is an up down or about the same as it always has been well is the first time in over time. The only directors say that they're happy to write a check the town on the way down anywhere from on Sunday 50 to 70% in infant that is due to what information put out there no one ago that you resorted to stay home, order, and wanted people to only 12% so neatly put that out there that are bus service for keeping and service, reduce some of our our time that we run, but we kept it out there for events with only so you on a day that we had in all 2500 people for the box you know that someday. Down at 700 that the only time you hear me say that for the ridership down but that was the intent of the of the information on the buses that says essential travel only what is essential travel that while there's a lot of people in the healthcare field. There's a lot of people that work in the grocery stores. A lot of the work and are on long facilities and so forth that you depend on the MTU for transportation enough so I think it's pretty new to talk about the medical field and and help them consult and I'm just that help get them to plan point B. We had a feeder for that and also the large population that have asked the young food, medical appointments and in the MTU provide that far off for the city La Crosse and we just had to make sure that we are there for those people, even though in the lot going on the world right now. People still knee-deep people feel silly to get to their medical appointment. So that's why I'm waiting to essential service and that means I have since arrived on so I don't want everything opens up our schedule is going to open back up to what they were prior to the coronavirus in October 19 yeah will really plan what kind of dog the last 30 hours, been pretty chaotic and down with a lot of new information results and analyze all that but that that the plan has been in the plan so far as the report is to do a small open where right now where you live finale service on the 30 there is a member that 30 minutes or so hourly looking to put that back to our our every 30 minutes and most run all morning, and Sunday back here. Eventually I will probably still keep some of those initial safety factors in there like you only according to the door and as of right now were not to be accepted and he cares only for the month you to keep that interaction with minimal thoughtful, but long story short is that is in the area started to open up more convenient you and make additional changes back to normal as well

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Adam Lorentz is the director of the MTU for the city of La Crosse and I read a while back that the MTU was going to be getting some new buses house that process going. You good to buses that are coming out now all across now is that there could be some delays now that everyone is going on but we do have two full electric buses that made the news about a year or two ago and were in the process of looking at that any 235 foot pole electric buses with charging stations on Morgan upgrade our infrastructure here at the bus barn connection can handle that. And not only handled but they're getting back try to start innovating for the future electric, but the way that we can ago who want to make sure that we have the capacity now and I think that that I think the best use of money at the plan for now I'm putting that in the short term here. I will plan on extricating five new 35 foot clean, eco-buses, and that's a mixture of different some grandpa came through the state, and also we received one bus and that should be the VW mitigation on that was a settlement that VW had a settlement that actually think that the country and around the state would allocate a certain amount of money we are able to get a bucket that felt deathly needed to be at Fort about this last year but we still have about 15 buses that did replace the useful life and the five that are coming next year can come not good enough. So with the new electric buses. How is that going to help with the fuel costs in the overall budget of the city you know there's still a lot to learn about electric buses were falling very closely with other agencies that actually it will minimize any in the state of Wisconsin Madison probably Madison walked into the bigger ones that are starting the process on the next block. If you have this on the street right now a lot of the things you know the names Coccinellidae Sophos right now were looking at them, reducing the cost per bottle just by having doubt not having that that gas and oil pump through their it's really time will tell. A lot of people feel down, but were really looking at him, the money aspect itself so that you can gauge the environment you're reducing our carbon footprint. So it's kind of a twofold situation of the benefit electric buses and tell me about the technology on some of the newer buses that is obviously anything new is better administrator for the drivers and better for the riders. Right now it is implemented. We have our fleshly and pulmonary ABL system and the ethos of the book of the GPS now and was really convenient for that is that any user can install a free app on their phone and they can see where the buses are in real time and what that does you know we do a little Wisconsin so you know when it's the portable low-end to get snow on the ground. It's nice to know where your buses in real time with the general condition of the table the, you know, standing there in the box where stand in home until the bucket there also. Just about plaintiff from his new dairy and not sure what talk to get on a lot of things that give us a call here and read the old-fashioned map, but the biblical proponent that to look this your buses around and just tap on that stop in for the next buses in their it's really revolutionize that's really set at the head of getting new riders on the box that's more like big city stuff really if you think about it. Yeah, absolutely a you know where were trying to change the culture of transit in the city La Crosse obviously never arrived in the depend on it. Not right as an Indian unit for many years but now we want to break the door and get a lot of those first-time writers and often in order to do that we have to get some of the technologies and some luxuries. No new bus luxury not able to write a new box so all those pieces on panic that is up to have the new ridership and tell me about some of the projects that the MTU is coming up well on this for A product that talked about the infrastructure of spinal route that electric grid not only to how the two buses but also the plan for the future. I'm just for plaintiff and money savings were in a plan for now. If you want to keep digging up the ground and put a new conduit new stations and every time you want to get electric buses, but for the community projects. We had a couple really great ones lined up this year. And of course they got postponed for next year but really trying to branch out and and and and get our faith out there and one only had a really cool project. The school district with your teachers, where family picnic in the community-based Damon that we had students from every one of the Wilson artwork and I plan to wrap a 35 foot box and have them going billboard of the kids our growth of the city and it's just that I really care product showcase the talent that we have here in La Crosse but also to have some mom find transportation system that I can't understand Latino politicians taking call about but feel that the large-scale project for really the last 12 to 18 months and really put a lot of emphasis on local community events. Local media picnics. We do a lot of outreach with him a lot of daycare and school. Korea: a parent is somewhat like a field trip on property but to get rid of the and honk the horn and just learn more about writing and then I will actually do a lot without working through different businesses in the area and will take a bath into a private poster with the their employees and their business just to get people to feel the box and understand about writing about kind of want to think environment where they have somebody looking at that object can do it together and just to show him that the foxes are really viable and efficient, and safe optical

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This is Randy Nelson and this is an edition of extra innings as a retiring superintendent of schools. Many things run across my mind when I reflect on 37 years of education, what's happened in those 37 years. What we been doing in our schools and even what's on the horizon to help facilitate the discussion. I've enlisted the assistance of Mr. Bob Schmidt past radio talkshow host a parent and a friend. Take one of the things that is change. I think a lot since my kids were little to now is is community schools. We tend to have more community schools than we did 15 years ago. One could argue that our community schools have always been committed to schools in that they serve neighborhoods. We believe that neighborhood schools are really important part of who we are but a community school model intensifies what it means to be a neighborhood school and that neighborhood school really sees that's this is where we bring our children love our school whatever staff we love everything that happens inside of our school for involving the PTO, etc. but the community school model is one that actually intensifies it by creating more connections, not just with parents and not just of students but with organizations in that particular neighborhood whether those would be churches or where they would be be businesses creating opportunities for many mentorships resources to come in to play bring them thinking in a place where, especially parents of children who maybe don't feel either welcome or comfortable in other settings can come to their local community school and they can be welcome there, and there are resources there for that to support them, etc. so this is the notion of community school. I'm real proud that how I think were in our third year of community school operations, both at Northside elementary school and also at Hamilton elementary school. So, explain the difference between a neighborhood school and community school that so that the neighborhood school is really about geographic location right, but a community school takes the geographic location and says what does this neighborhood have to offer the school and how can we bring it into the school. For instance, in one of the things we talked about before is in a community school model perhaps partnering with a laundromat or perhaps in bringing in for instance a washer and dryer so that the student a who may not have had an opportunity to have their clothes washed for several days. They can be washed at school. We can take care that we can support that we can support the parent we can support the students. We also talked about making sure that in a community school that we have. For instance, classroom space for adult learning so that parents who, for instance, would like to have a class running there that me know maybe through a partnership with one of our higher Ed agencies Western or Viterbo or UW well that actually in an adult course can be run right there make minutes parenting course. Maybe it's a course on marketing. Maybe it's a corrupt business course we want to turn out to be a hub where that particular parent or any parent can send this is my school and on a drop in here. Both of those schools have a pretty significant opportunity to support a lot of the families in the schools and on the weekends it's that's not unusual for students to be filling up bags of groceries for some of the students in their schools to I need some food over the weekend and so this hub. This opportunity really expands on that particular model. And of course one of the things we want to make sure someplace is an opportunity for our local medical agencies to have an exam room or have a place where students if necessary, and/or parents and people from the neighborhood might be able to once a week be able to see a doctor and come in and see a doctor if they are not feeling well and or an opportunity for a dental chair to be there so that a student could have a quick exam. I'm guessing eyeglasses hearing all that stuff probably titrated. I can totally see great advantage of having community schools. I don't know if our community knows that we have this here know that they really been developing and so couple of years ago we brought the programs and we actually hired about what's called a community schools coordinator and it's really been that person's job over the last couple of years to start cultivating relationships and start making know some of these things happen. I think what's really cool about the community schools model is that we've got Hamilton and we have Northside right now is our community schools. There could be more in the future, but we have those two schools and a well they are community schools there community school programming does not have to look the same. It's not the standardized approach to this. It really is intended to be one that's reflective of what the community in the neighborhood largest thing. For instance at Hamilton we went through the process there of having several meetings with community members and with members in that particular neighborhood what's needed here at the Hamilton school. How can the schools serve to support you better in some of the needs that you have as parents, we received a treasure trove of ideas that actually were starting to bring into play and part of it was to make it a community school provides someone there to provide supports that person who's there is typically one that has other connections in the community. It doesn't need to be a social worker, but is able to support a family who might need a year this family. You might need something else and it's just it's another touching point for families and for parents who need supports along the way. This is part of the role of the community, school, community school is to make sure that we're doing things that the tenant level is much as we can. The playing field so that when that student comes to school. That student knows my mom my dad my guardians however are welcome in this particular school. I'm welcome in this particular school. This is my place. I love this place. I'm learning these things and were backfilling with experiences along the way. So it's a very complex thing that goes on with these and were just in the starting phases of our community schools, but I am really excited about what the future holds for the committee to schools and how they can really really become the hubs of those neighborhoods and go further than that. Thanks, Randy. I'm looking forward to our next extraneous conversation retiring superintendent of schools Randy Nelson is excavating time as a podcast for hire.com

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La Crosse, WI 54601

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Welcome to the Franciscan Spirituality Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin’s “What is Spirituality?” podcast. Your host, Steve Spilde, is the associate director at the Center. His guests talk about their evolving understanding of God , prayer, healing, and wholeness.
Steve: Did people use the term “spirituality” when you were that age.
Mary Kathryn
If someone had asked you, did that word mean anything? What were some of the meanings that word might've held then?

At that time if somebody had said “spirituality”, probably it would've been prayer. That might have been it. Prayer, devotions – that sort of thing. That would've probably been it.
There wasn't much of a distinction between spirituality and religion was there?
No. No. Religion was considered religion. Or nobody talked about it. And what we learned, even in the classes about becoming a woman religious, even that was a lot about rules and regulations, the doctines and dogmas. We didn’t learn lot about prayer. Our prayer was pretty much rote - out of the book.
As you think about how your understanding of spirituality has changed throughout your life, what were some early moments – some important moments when that started to change and evolve?
Probably in my mid-30s. It was retreats. I went on my first directed retreat. That was definitely a changing point for me. Now my experience of Christ and God was personal. It was a personal relationship.
For someone who has not been on retreat, when you use the term “directed retreat”, what does that look like?
I would not use that. We would have to talk about what is a retreat? What do they understand about it?
What did your first directed retreat look like? What were the boundaries?
It was amazing. I had a Jesuit priest that was giving the retreat. Because we were making the retreat, but then he was also teaching us. Because of course that was also part of it.
We would have a class each day on the Ignatian exercises so there were some things that I was really good at. Some things I couldn't figure out. You know just in the whole thing, even in my own prayer time. But there was so much grace and so much gift in the whole thing. Again, it just was my cup of tea. I didn't have to talk to people.
So “Directed Retreat”, the standard understanding is that you go away for silence, and then once a day, you meet with a spiritual director. Correct?
That's right. That's what I would say. And then you have prayer times, like guided prayer times by the director.
So for you that was a fish to water.
Oh my! I loved it. It was good.
But it sounds like in those periods of silence you had a more direct experience of God. Yes, yes. For sure. I learned about prayer. Like I hadn’t learned a lot about prayer, but I really began to learn about various ways of prayer that was helpful to me.
You went through a program to learn how to be a spiritual director for other people and then there was the invitation to create the Franciscan Spirituality Center so you could first train the sisters to do that, right? And eventually open the doors to people.
To other people? Yes, yes. So it grew out of the Vatican II, the whole thing grew out of Vatican II and how do we respond to what are the needs now.
The group that was there with me, maybe three of us actually continued on and started doing spiritual direction. I don't think the others did.
You described that it was really natural for you to be a listener. What were some of the skills you had to refine though, to become better as a spiritual director.
Probably learn ways of inviting people to share more in their feelings. And maybe for people that are very verbal, having...

Franciscan Spirituality Center
920 Market Street
La Crosse, WI 54601

https://www.fscenter.org/
Welcome to the Franciscan Spirituality Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin’s “What is Spirituality?” podcast. Your host, Steve Spilde, is the associate director at the Center. His guests talk about their evolving understanding of God, prayer, healing, and wholeness.

My name is Steve Spilde and today I am joined by Sister Mary Kathryn Fogarty. Welcome Mary Kathryn.
Thank you.
It is a pleasure to meet with you. I've known you for seven or eight years. I started getting involved here at the Franciscan Spirituality Center and you were on staff as one of the spiritual directors. Let's start by having you describe your understanding of what spiritual direction is.
I would say listening. Maybe listening at the heart level, from the heart space.
How long have you been doing spiritual direction?
I actually started, probably, in the mid-70’s doing spiritual direction. Then I was in leadership for a while and during that time, like eight years, I didn't do spiritual direction.
Do you remember the first time you received spiritual direction?
Yes it probably was when I made a directed retreat in Prairie du Chien. That was the beginning, after that.
What was your expectation of what it was going in - and then maybe - how is it different from what you expected?
I don't know that I really had any expectations. I don't think I even knew exactly what I was doing. But I have had good spiritual directors who helped me to share about my life and soul work.
Was that challenging for you?
Being a spiritual director?
Receiving it.
Receiving, probably, because I'm not as articulate about things. I’m pretty introverted from that point of view. So they probably had to work harder. Just invite me to reflect on things. It wasn't hard reflecting, but articulating the reflection is often difficult for me.
But then you became a spiritual director and really worked at listening to others in a deep way. Was that more natural for you?
Yes, by all means, yes. And I would say again, we all come to find our identity, how we are as spiritual directors. I definitely, even in working with the people spiritual direction program, I don't say a lot. When I'm doing spiritual direction, I can wait a long time.
Were you comfortable with that from the beginning or did you have to become more comfortable?
No, I think from the very beginning I was that way. I would say you know again it was a learning for me. I was definitely more comfortable just listening. But I also had to learn that the work was not mine to do. It was really God's to do. Not getting too anxious about the movements.
Have you always been like that? Have you always been a good listener even when you were young?
Probably. Um-hmm.
The family were born into, can you describe that for me?
Okay, we were people of the land because we were a farm family. Very stable family, hard-working, and lots of extended family because my father's side of the family was a large family and they all pretty much lived around where I lived.
Which was in Iowa.
Yes. West Bend Iowa. We had good neighbors and just really good people. I was surrounded by goodness really and I think we were alike. I come by it naturally. But most of my family is quite quiet. I leave I like to read. My father liked to read. There just wasn't a lot of noise when I was growing up. Then on weekends and during the summer vacations and Christmas vacations I stayed with my grandmother, who at the time would've been probably in her 80s and she was very quiet. Like at the age where I am. She couldn't hear. So why would she want have a conversation? I just loved it because of course I like the quiet. I like to read. She liked to read.

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Chris Jones podcast were back is the second time that were doing this or doing it that will you honestly most of our podcast have been just as we been social distancing, but this is the true social distancing one word Chris Jones podcast reason is that it's true, is because we have to be social distancing now because the way the world is shut down. Chris, the only thing running in and yeah and that you know that the people out there delivering Amazon to psych, Amazon, post office, UPS, FedEx, all those guys are out there men and women are out there delivering packages to everybody and that is people like us that are staying at home and leaving our packages at home. You don't like them they are great for that, and I loved it all. And I will become the perfect payoff. It was something as it was a pleasant home is worth the wait. Or not. 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Remember, people were eating lunch, and a minute staring at them they just walked away or like five and you videotape the two did you ever do anything of it at all I have. I thought yesterday that the people thing, according to just go draw your old furniture. Like all that I went to Japan and never edited into the video like literally like I need to get on that. Speaking of Japan, and the owners of rain sucks her friend Shane is in Japan now and is in there for a couple years but I saw that he liked the post that you posted about you being a dad in your holding a doll baby doll baby girl doll upside down by the foot. Great that you do it that way, did you how did you do that you just come out of a hat. So did you do that, just for a fact not know but when I went to the girl we just want to help each other so I can write but it was a black light hanging by one leg but my friend you like. I got the girl yeah yeah either way that can be applied. Is it scary to have a daughter. You have got I think I'm going to do my best to say look like she's gorgeous how did I get hurt line my ass off. I yeah look out the guys are just charmers like how you dad Marriott because he was nice was polite and patient. I know you your very book smart you what you do a lot of reading and stuff. If you ever thought of writing a book I need to have my page is set up a lot in this room literally with the dog and just get to typing away how ADD is Chris Buckley's rainy days I will. But you know YouTube doesn't stop and then I might have been writing for while it is a reward to get some coffee and then on I had been drinking since my wife is pregnant like literally since we found out that she is weak, 15 and 15 weeks we shared My carbonate yeah good for you have you can pick out a name yet know. So please, we need to ground and meet some girl names. I think what is got a girl name that the thing to be awesome for for Chris and Stacy's baby give Chris an email and it's one word got Joan Miller and whoever raises enough money for the name of their choice that will but like it college or career fund and that you can name the child so I explained to explain this to me explain this to him to us right now. So if somebody has a name that they want to you is someone I like I really want daughter you give us enough money. I think that will Let them go to her college career even want to name honey and you pay five grand so how do something about making a donation to the to the baby Jones file all have to give them my then know which day but yeah we will make it happen because if you want to name a kid doesn't belong to you, you're okay with me and live type of person is the one word Chris Jones podcast podcast

Franciscan Spirituality Center
920 Market Street
La Crosse, WI 54601

https://www.fscenter.org/
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Welcome to the Franciscan Spirituality Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin's “What is Spirituality?” podcast. Your host, Steve Spilde, is the associate director at the center. His guests talk about the revolving understanding of God, prayer, healing and wholeness. So, what does the word “spirituality” mean to you, Steve? Spirituality: In an earlier stage in my life, I would've said that religion and spirituality are synonymous and if they're not synonymous, then the spirituality is wrong or even dangerous. But now I understand religion to be a subset of spirituality. Spirituality is about connection and wholeness. Spirituality, in my mind, is the connection between ourselves and forces bigger than ourselves. The connection between ourselves and what we understand as God or spirit or the universe. Spirituality is about our connection between our ourselves and nature. It is about the connection between ourselves and the people around us. We are not isolated in this world. We are part of a whole that's bigger than ourselves. “We” is bigger than “me.” Spirituality is about wholeness within ourselves, connecting the various parts of ourselves: our mind, body and our spirit, our emotions. When we bring all those together, that's an important part of spirituality. You mentioned the word isolation when you just answered that and nowadays we’re all kind of in isolation and our self-imposed isolation with the pandemic that's out there and we’re supposed to shelter in place and all that. How has the time of pandemic changed your understanding, or maybe helped your understanding of spirituality and how people deal with being alone and things like that? I think my time at home as a father with an autistic child really prepared me for the pandemic because I was at home with my daughter starting at about 18 months, and my daughter didn't really start speaking until she was 4. It wasn't clear that she would ever speak, so there was a lot of silence and isolation during that two- to three-year period, early on, and so I had to do a lot of that work of just getting to know myself, living with myself in silence. I think that's what a lot of people are going through right now during the pandemic. So many people have just been so busy with day-to-day life. They just haven't had time to look at the deeper questions like: Who am I? What do I want? What am I doing? Is this what I want to be doing? They haven't had time to listen to their emotions, they’ve oftentimes not listened to their bodies; they’ve ignored their bodies. Pretty much all the things that we've neglected really come up during this time of silence and isolation, and so that’s some of the struggles that people are having. And that's really what spirituality seeks to do, is to address that, to bring all that isolation into connection. Like the connection between people. People who are living together, whatever issues that been there between them, is pretty hard to ignore right now because people are spending so much time with each other and there’s really no place to hide. They have to work it out. I think that's a part of spirituality as well, working out things that are broken, things that need healing. Are religion and spirituality the same thing, Steve? I think that religion is the way we practice spirituality or, another way of putting that, religion is how we as a group practice spirituality. It’s kind of an agreed upon way that as a group we practice spirituality. But spirituality is a personal thing: how I connect with God, how I connect with nature. Religion is basically a group of people who agree on certain ways that they practice their spirituality, certain beliefs that they hold in common. That’s my own understanding; it’s a subset. If you have any questions about any of the...

Franciscan Spirituality Center
920 Market Street
La Crosse, WI 54601

https://www.fscenter.org/
Transcription for seo
Welcome to the Franciscan Spirituality Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin's “What is Spirituality?” podcast. Your host, Steve Spilde, is the associate director at the center. His guests talk about the revolving understanding of God, prayer, healing and wholeness. So, tell me, who is Steve Spilde? I am married to wife Jeanette, father to a daughter, Sophia, and I grew up in a farm in North Dakota. After doing a couple different things, I ended up being a Lutheran pastor for a while, about 15 years, and then my wife and I adopted Sophia from China, got home from China and quickly discovered that she had some developmental delays. She has a diagnosis of autism, and we had to rearrange our lives to take care of her. So, I stayed home with her for a period of time as a stay-at-home dad, coordinating all of her various therapies, and I had to step away from parish ministry. During that time at home with my daughter, I learned a lot about myself. We ended up moving to La Crosse because of my wife's job and found my way to the spirituality center. I became a spiritual director and found my life's calling in that. I really enjoy meeting with people, hearing the story of their lives, and that's what I get to do and that is who I am. So when you spent that time at home with your daughter and you had all that time to think about things and you did some soul-searching and you found out who you were, did you like who you were? Probably not at first. I’m becoming to like who I am. I’m coming to like that person, but it’s been a journey. What did you find out most about yourself that you didn't know? My daughter. I thought that time at home was about teaching my daughter and helping her to become a good person, healthy person, a person who could function well when she grew up. The joke of it is I think she's taught me a lot more than I've ever taught her. So much of that time with her at home was really learning to accept her because when we first got the diagnosis and I was first at home with her as a father, we were doing lots of therapy and lots of different education, trying to help her overcome her autism. I think inside of me the goals was trying to stop her being autistic. But she can't do that, and so over time I started to realize that wow my daughter is fine. She's a really cool person. The challenge was I need to learn to accept her and learn what works for her. And the irony is I needed to learn those lessons for myself, so she really taught that to me. I’d spent my life up to that always trying to fit in with what other people said that I should be, who I was supposed to be, trying to hide my shortcomings and maybe exaggerate my gifts, and she really taught me some important lessons about self-acceptance. I think I like myself a lot better than I used to because I realize that hey the person I have to live with all the time is Steve, and if other people don't like that, that's their problem. I had to learn that to get along with her and she continues to teach that back to myself. What drew you to work for the Franciscan Spirituality Center. So, when I first left, technically they call that a leave from call so I was a pastor I had to take a break from that. So I went on leave from call and I thought that was going to be short time, just a year or two. I thought we’d do a lot of therapy was Sophia we would heal her of autism and off we would go. It sounds kind of silly and naïve to say that now, but I think honestly that's what I believed. So, I thought you being at home with her would be kind of a short-term thing, but I have a lot of time. The part that I missed most about being a pastor in the parish was meeting with people one-on-one. People would say, Pastor, I need to talk. I'm having trouble on my marriage or I’m having...