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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.60,0:00:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know a man who soars above the city every night.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.46,0:00:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his dreams, he twirls and swirls
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.46,0:00:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with his toes kissing the Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.33,0:00:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything has motion, he claims,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.14,0:00:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even a body as paralyzed as his own.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.98,0:00:24.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This man is my father.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.81,0:00:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three years ago, when I found out
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.71,0:00:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that my father had suffered a severe stroke
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.30,0:00:31.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in his brain stem,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.43,0:00:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I walked into his room in the ICU
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.90,0:00:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the Montreal Neurological Institute
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.88,0:00:40.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and found him lying deathly still,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.53,0:00:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tethered to a breathing machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.46,0:00:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paralysis had closed over his body slowly,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.89,0:00:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beginning in his toes, then legs,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.96,0:00:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,torso, fingers and arms.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.50,0:00:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It made its way up his neck,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.70,0:00:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cutting off his ability to breathe,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.90,0:01:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stopped just beneath the eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.38,0:01:03.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never lost consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.55,0:01:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather, he watched from within
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.14,0:01:08.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as his body shut down,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.45,0:01:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,limb by limb,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.58,0:01:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,muscle by muscle.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.54,0:01:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that ICU room, I walked up to my father's body,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.10,0:01:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with a quivering voice and through tears,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.70,0:01:25.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began reciting the alphabet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.11,0:01:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.01,0:01:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,H, I, J, K.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.14,0:01:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At K, he blinked his eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.09,0:01:40.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began again.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.25,0:01:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.74,0:01:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,H, I.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.75,0:01:49.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He blinked again at the letter I,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.89,0:01:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then at T, then at R, and A:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.88,0:01:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kitra.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.73,0:01:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said "Kitra, my beauty, don't cry.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.68,0:02:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a blessing."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.14,0:02:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was no audible voice, but my father
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.80,0:02:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called out my name powerfully.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.84,0:02:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just 72 hours after his stroke,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.94,0:02:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had already embraced
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.69,0:02:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the totality of his condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.16,0:02:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite his extreme physical state,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.66,0:02:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was completely present with me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.62,0:02:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guiding, nurturing,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.25,0:02:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being my father as much
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.50,0:02:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if not more than ever before.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.74,0:02:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Locked-in syndrome
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.30,0:02:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is many people's worst nightmare.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.70,0:02:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In French, it's sometimes called
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.11,0:02:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"maladie de l'emmuré vivant."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.19,0:02:46.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Literally, "walled-in-alive disease."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.51,0:02:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For many people, perhaps most,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.27,0:02:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paralysis is an unspeakable horror,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.80,0:02:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my father's experience
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.14,0:02:56.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,losing every system of his body
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.51,0:02:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not an experience of feeling trapped,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.57,0:03:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather of turning the psyche inwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.73,0:03:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dimming down the external chatter,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.93,0:03:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facing the recesses of his own mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.85,0:03:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in that place,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.69,0:03:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,falling in love with life and body anew.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.47,0:03:19.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a rabbi and spiritual man
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.17,0:03:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dangling between mind and body, life and death,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.28,0:03:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the paralysis opened up a new awareness for him.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.81,0:03:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He realized he no longer needed to look
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.22,0:03:33.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beyond the corporeal world
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.25,0:03:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to find the divine.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.50,0:03:40.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Paradise is in this body.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.39,0:03:44.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in this world," he said.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.15,0:03:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I slept by my father's side for the first four months,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.01,0:03:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tending as much as I could
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.12,0:03:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to his every discomfort,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.76,0:03:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understanding the deep \Nhuman psychological fear
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.12,0:03:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of not being able to call out for help.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.60,0:04:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother, sisters, brother and I,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.33,0:04:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we surrounded him in a cocoon of healing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.69,0:04:09.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We became his mouthpiece,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.79,0:04:13.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spending hours each day reciting the alphabet
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.62,0:04:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he whispered back sermons
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.98,0:04:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and poetry with blinks of his eye.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.65,0:04:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His room, it became our temple of healing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.10,0:04:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His bedside became a site for those
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.83,0:04:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeking advice and spiritual counsel, and through us,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.91,0:04:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my father was able to speak
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.45,0:04:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and uplift,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.64,0:04:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,letter by letter,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.64,0:04:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blink by blink.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.10,0:04:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything in our world became slow and tender
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.99,0:04:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the din, drama and death of the hospital ward
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.36,0:04:51.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,faded into the background.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.86,0:04:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to read to you one of the first things
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.96,0:04:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we transcribed in the week following the stroke.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.20,0:05:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He composed a letter,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.58,0:05:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,addressing his synagogue congregation,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.20,0:05:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ended it with the following lines:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.71,0:05:09.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When my nape exploded,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.19,0:05:11.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I entered another dimension:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.95,0:05:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inchoate, sub-planetary, protozoan.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.61,0:05:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Universes are opened and closed continually.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.20,0:05:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are many when low,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.26,0:05:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who stop growing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.46,0:05:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last week, I was brought so low,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.57,0:05:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I felt the hand of my father around me,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.00,0:05:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my father brought me back."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.42,0:05:36.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we weren't his voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.67,0:05:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were his legs and arms.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.00,0:05:42.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I moved them like I know I would have wanted
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.65,0:05:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own arms and legs to be moved
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.25,0:05:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were they still for all the hours of the day.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.14,0:05:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember I'd hold his fingers near my face,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.12,0:05:57.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bending each joint to keep it soft and limber.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.41,0:05:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd ask him again and again
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.76,0:06:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to visualize the motion,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.26,0:06:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to watch from within as the finger curled
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.78,0:06:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and extended, and to move along with it
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.85,0:06:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in his mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.56,0:06:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, one day, from the corner of my eye,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.58,0:06:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw his body slither like a snake,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.30,0:06:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an involuntary spasm passing through the course
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.60,0:06:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of his limbs.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.89,0:06:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first, I thought it was my own hallucination,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.10,0:06:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having spent so much time tending to this one body,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.66,0:06:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so desperate to see anything react on its own.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.32,0:06:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he told me he felt tingles,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.98,0:06:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sparks of electricity flickering on and off
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.52,0:06:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just beneath the surface of the skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.27,0:06:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The following week, he began ever so slightly
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.58,0:06:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show muscle resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.34,0:06:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Connections were being made.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.94,0:06:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Body was slowly and gently reawakening,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.16,0:07:01.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,limb by limb, muscle by muscle,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.71,0:07:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,twitch by twitch.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.64,0:07:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a documentary photographer,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.28,0:07:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt the need to photograph
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.08,0:07:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each of his first movements
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.28,0:07:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a mother with her newborn.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.93,0:07:18.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I photographed him taking his first unaided breath,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.43,0:07:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the celebratory moment after he showed
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.21,0:07:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,muscle resistance for the very first time,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.22,0:07:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the new adapted technologies that allowed him
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.93,0:07:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to gain more and more independence.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.81,0:07:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I photographed the care and the love
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.82,0:07:36.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that surrounded him.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.89,0:07:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But my photographs only told the outside story
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.30,0:07:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a man lying in a hospital bed
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.62,0:07:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attached to a breathing machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.27,0:07:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't able to portray his story from within,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.89,0:08:00.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I began to search for a new visual language,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.22,0:08:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one which strived to express the ephemeral quality
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.51,0:08:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of his spiritual experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.03,0:08:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally, I want to share with you
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.28,0:08:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a video from a series that I've been working on
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.64,0:08:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that tries to express the slow, in-between existence
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.91,0:08:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that my father has experienced.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.62,0:08:41.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As he began to regain his ability to breathe,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.17,0:08:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started recording his thoughts,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.80,0:08:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so the voice that you hear in this video
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.73,0:08:48.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is his voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.34,0:08:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Ronnie Cahana: You have to believe
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.42,0:08:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're paralyzed
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.15,0:08:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to play the part
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.91,0:09:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a quadriplegic.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.14,0:09:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.11,0:09:06.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.69,0:09:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in my dreams
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.46,0:09:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every night
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.30,0:09:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I Chagall-man float
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.21,0:09:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the city
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.34,0:09:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,twirl and swirl
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.56,0:09:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with my toes kissing the floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.48,0:09:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know nothing about the statement
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.38,0:09:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of man without motion.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.18,0:09:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything has motion.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.80,0:09:51.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heart pumps.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.15,0:09:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The body heaves.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.45,0:10:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mouth moves.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.16,0:10:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We never stagnate.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.23,0:10:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life triumphs up and down.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.06,0:10:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kitra Cahana: For most of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.13,0:10:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our muscles begin to twitch and move
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.86,0:10:18.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,long before we are conscious,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.37,0:10:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my father tells me his privilege
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.29,0:10:23.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is living on the far periphery
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.47,0:10:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the human experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.47,0:10:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like an astronaut who sees a perspective
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.10,0:10:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that very few of us will ever get to share,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.32,0:10:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he wonders and watches as he takes
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.43,0:10:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his first breaths
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.30,0:10:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and dreams about crawling back home.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.34,0:10:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So begins life at 57, he says.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.12,0:10:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A toddler has no attitude in its being,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.62,0:10:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a man insists on his world every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.32,0:10:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Few of us will ever have to face physical limitations
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.97,0:11:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the degree that my father has,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.93,0:11:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we will all have moments of paralysis
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.08,0:11:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.44,0:11:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know I frequently confront walls
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.66,0:11:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that feel completely unscalable,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.90,0:11:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my father insists
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.16,0:11:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there are no dead ends.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.03,0:11:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, he invites me into his space of co-healing
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.24,0:11:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give the very best of myself, and for him
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.84,0:11:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give the very best of himself to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.27,0:11:33.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paralysis was an opening for him.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.31,0:11:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an opportunity to emerge,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.66,0:11:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to rekindle life force,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.86,0:11:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to sit still long enough with himself
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.89,0:11:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so as to fall in love with the full continuum
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.20,0:11:45.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of creation.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.49,0:11:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my father is no longer locked in.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.48,0:11:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He moves his neck with ease,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.64,0:11:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has had his feeding peg removed,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.37,0:11:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,breathes with his own lungs,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.15,0:12:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaks slowly with his own quiet voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.63,0:12:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and works every day
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.94,0:12:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to gain more movement in his paralyzed body.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.15,0:12:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the work will never be finished.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.50,0:12:16.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As he says, "I'm living in a broken world,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.21,0:12:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is holy work to do."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.24,0:12:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.26,0:12:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)