I want to talk to you about symbols of the Holy Spirit as we explore the scripture to look at the various symbols of the Holy Spirit. We'll see different aspects of the Holy Spirit's nature revealed. I love the Holy Spirit. I know you love the Holy Spirit and honestly I think we should talk more about the Holy Spirit than he's spoken about and again these symbols will reveal various different traits of the Holy Spirit and this is going to be a three-part series. In each part of the series I will cover three different symbols. Go now to Isaiah chapter 6. This is Isaiah's encounter with the Lord. I want to first show you an example of a subtle mention of the Holy Spirit. There's three ways you can see the Holy Spirit in scripture. Number one, that's a specific mention that would be like in Acts chapter 2 where the Holy Spirit is directly specifically mentioned and his power falls and now I want to show you a subtle mention of the Holy Spirit. Go to Acts, excuse me, Isaiah chapter 6. I'll begin reading at verse number 1. It was in the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne in the train of his robe filled the temple. Now, who is Isaiah talking about here? He's talking about the Lord. Of course, go down here now to verse number 8 and pay attention to the wording that he's using here. Then I heard the Lord asking, whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us? I said here I am, send me. And he said, go and say to this people, listen carefully but do not understand. Watch closely but learn nothing. Okay, so here Isaiah is obviously talking about the Lord but you wouldn't know that he's actually also talking about the Holy Spirit. We know that God is 3 and 1. So go here to Acts chapter number 28. I want to show you something now. This is a subtle mention of the Holy Spirit. Acts chapter 28 verse 25. And after they had argued back and forth among themselves, they left with this final word from Paul. The Holy Spirit was right when he said to your ancestors through Isaiah the prophet, go and say to this people, when you hear what I say, you will not understand. When you see what I do, you will not comprehend. So many of us would have missed this mention of the Holy Spirit had we not cross referenced Isaiah chapter 6 with Acts chapter 28. So here clearly the scripture is telling us that the Holy Spirit was speaking directly to Isaiah. And that's an example of a subtle mention. A mention of the Holy Spirit's presence or power that takes a little more studying to see. So you would have just glossed right over that. I know I did before I read Acts chapter 28 and compared it with Isaiah chapter 6 and then realized oh that's also a mention of the Holy Spirit. So there's a specific mention of the Holy Spirit. You see examples of this. Again Acts chapter 2 is an example but you see other examples of this all throughout the scripture where you directly and specifically see the Holy Spirit mentioned. And then you see subtle mentions of the Holy Spirit where he's revealed with just a little bit of study. And then example of this would be cross referencing Isaiah chapter 6 with Acts chapter 28 verse 25. And finally there are symbolic mentions of the Holy Spirit. These are mentions of the Holy Spirit that use these symbols that we're going to discuss throughout this series. Now the Bible says in Proverbs chapter 25 verse 2 it is God's privilege to conceal things and the king's privilege to discover them. Psalm 25 14 says the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him and he will show them his covenant. Matthew chapter 13 verses 11 and 12 talk about the stewardship of revelation. If you use the revelation that God has given to you then he adds to your understanding. He replied you are permitted to understand the secrets of the kingdom of heaven but others are not. To those who listen to my teaching more understanding will be given and they will have an abundance of knowledge. But for those who are not listening even what little understanding they have will be taken away from them. Here we see that the principle the law of stewardship applies also to revelation that God will give to us. Now I remember as I began to comb through the scriptures wanting to know more about the Holy Spirit praying to God and saying Lord I want to know about the person of the Holy Spirit. Now some might become nervous when such prayers are prayed and they say things like well our focus should be Jesus and I agree our focus should be Jesus and in fact one of the roles of the Holy Spirit is to glorify Jesus. Jesus said he will glorify me he will speak those things I spoke to you. So the Holy Spirit points to Jesus certainly but this doesn't mean that we should be ignorant of the person of the Holy Spirit otherwise the scripture wouldn't have mentioned him at all. It's the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit and all too often we neglect that third person of the Trinity and we pretend like he doesn't matter or like he's not equal with the Father and the Son or that it doesn't matter if we study about him or not but because he's mentioned in scripture it's important that we understand what is mentioned in scripture about his person about his nature about his power about his will about his character and so forth and so when I began to study the scriptures I said Lord I want to know more about the Holy Spirit I have this passion and I believe God gave me a mandate to introduce my generation to the Holy Spirit that's one of the assignments God has given to this ministry is to help believers walk in a friendship with the Holy Spirit to understand the Holy Spirit his power and his presence and so forth and so I began to comb through the scriptures and I said Lord I want to know more about the Holy Spirit and so I saw all the specific mentions of the Holy Spirit and of course learned what I could from those and then I saw some of these subtle mentions of the Holy Spirit like when you compare Isaiah chapter 6 to Acts 28 25 again most would not have noticed that Isaiah chapter 6 is actually a mention of the Holy Spirit they would not have noticed that if they didn't compare it to Acts chapter 28 verse 25 which very clearly tells us that it was the Holy Spirit speaking to Isaiah the prophet so many might think that the Holy Spirit didn't even begin working that he wasn't present until Acts chapter 2 when in fact he was there since the beginning he was the spirit of God who hovered above the face of the deep but now I began to study and I also noticed that the Bible has certain symbols that represent the Holy Spirit's presence and power now let me be clear here so there's no confusion not every mention of these symbols is a direct reference to the Holy Spirit sometimes wind is just wind sometimes fire is just fire sometimes water is just water and so forth but then there are instances in the scripture as you begin to study where these symbols are in fact mentions or prophetic parallels of the Holy Spirit his person and his power so in this three part series I'm going to cover these three categories of symbols number one the elemental symbols of the Holy Spirit that's what I'm covering in this lesson now that is wind fire and water and then I'm going to cover the heavenly symbols of the Holy Spirit the dove cloud and light and then I'm going to cover the uncommon symbols of the Holy Spirit oil seal and wine now I want you to tell me in the comment section what do you love about the Holy Spirit let me know in the comment section whether you're watching live or on the replay so let's get into symbol number one again I'm covering the elemental symbols of the Holy Spirit for part one here let's look at number one and this is the symbol of wind so I'm going to oversimplify this now this is something I took from my book encountering the Holy Spirit in every book of the bible in the Old Testament the word for spirit is ruach the Hebrew word ruach can mean spirit wind or even breath in the New Testament the word for spirit is numa which can also mean spirit wind or breath now of course as far as the words and languages there is much more to it than that but for the sake of simplicity just note that ruach and numa can mean spirit wind or breath so look in Acts chapter two I'm going to read verses one through two here the bible says on the day of pentacos all the believers were meeting together in one place suddenly there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm and it filled the house where they were sitting the Holy Spirit comes in suddenly and from seemingly nowhere this nature that he has that's like wind is being used to describe him here in the book of Acts chapter two verses one through two now we understand that the Holy Spirit didn't begin his work in Acts chapter two he began his work in relation to how he works now with the church so it was a different way he was working now with the church but he had been active all throughout the Old Testament and even prior to Acts chapter two but here we see that the scripture describes his presence like the the roaring of a mighty windstorm I love that about his nature that just like the wind the Holy Spirit comes upon the scene suddenly and from seemingly nowhere isn't it amazing that we can be facing situations struggles trials and things that maybe sometimes even cause confusion and we can find ourselves in these plain ordinary dull settings of everyday life and then suddenly the atmosphere comes alive with the wind of the Spirit he whirls about the atmosphere transforming the situation making all things new and bringing refreshing like the wind he's invisible yet powerful unpredictable and sudden yet there's an order to the way he moves he's the breath of God look at John chapter 20 verse 22 then he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit upon those to whom he was speaking now the Holy Spirit is also described as the breath of God or the breath that sustains all living things now here I need to be very careful about the way I'm about to describe this only those who are truly born again have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit you can read Romans chapter 8 is just one example of this if we don't have the Holy Spirit we are not children of God if we are not children of God we do not have the Holy Spirit only those who place their faith in the finished work of the cross of Christ only those who believe on the Lord Jesus are born again and have the Holy Spirit in the sense that they're born again but this doesn't mean that the work of the Holy Spirit is limited to just born again believers now again when I say that some people might go well what do you mean exactly by that let me show you in Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils and the breath the breath into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul Job 33 4 the spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life so the Holy Spirit sustains life not just for the redeemed but the unredeemed now of course I'm not talking about spiritual life now I'm talking about actual physical life Isaiah 42 5 says this thus saith God the Lord he that created the heavens and stretched them out he that spread forth the earth and that which cometh out of it he that giveth breath unto the people upon it and spirit to them that walk there on so again this doesn't mean that everyone is redeemed I'm not a universalist I believe you have to place your faith in Christ repent of your sins to be born again but still the Holy Spirit sustains all physical life here on earth it was with that breath from Genesis 2 7 and that breath is still breathing that breath is still sustaining think about the grace of God the mercy of God the compassion of the Holy Spirit the humility that he has to sustain the very breath of the ones who curse him to sustain the breath and the life of those who rebel against him that's his loving nature that's his great patience that he has with mankind in general that he's willing to sustain the breath of life in them even though they use that very breath to speak against him the wind tells us of the Holy Spirit's unpredictability his sudden working he adds movement and vitality to our spiritual lives and when I say he's unpredictable I don't mean that he's unreliable I mean that he often moves in a way that goes against what we believe he should do but he will always be true to the word of God so this symbol of wind represents the Holy Spirit's unpredictability it represents his ability to come upon us suddenly it represents that he is invisible yet powerful like the wind there's a mystery to his movement number one is the symbol of wind number two is fire now keep in mind that the fire of God is not emotion the fire of God is not just zeal or passion the fire of God can cause zeal and passion but the fire of God is not in and of itself just zeal and passion the fire of God isn't even necessarily a move of the Holy Spirit or revival the fire of God is a person the Holy Spirit is the fire of God he is the key to passion and godly zeal he is the key to boldness and holiness he is that fire that burns within you that causes you to evangelize that causes you to set things on the altar that causes you to keep moving forward despite all the trials that may come your way he's the one who causes you to have a passionate love for Jesus that cannot be snuffed out by the things of this world or the criticism of man he is the fire of God living in us act chapter 2 verse 3 then what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them my dad was about 10 years old when he was attending a church service in which they were experiencing revival now this church ultimately planted many churches released many ministries i'm one of them that was released from this church planting movement and my dad was attending this service as a boy and he grew up in this revival and several years they were in this revival they were experiencing moves of the Holy Spirit he recalls one revival service in particular in that service like in many other services before it the people were dancing around the building they were dancing passionately but not disorderly there was a real sovereignty to the way that God was moving in that moment they were worshiping and praising God people were repenting of their sins he tells me that they were people that were drawing throwing their drugs on the altar and their crutches on the altar and people going and worshiping and prophesying and repenting and miracles bursting out all over the room powerful move of the Holy Spirit in the midst of that worship suddenly they began to hear this pounding on the back doors of the church my dad was sitting toward the back and he noticed that into the room burst a group of firemen and when they burst into the room at first it looked like they were ready to do some work and then their readiness turned to confusion he saw a look of bewilderment as they looked around the building they began to converse with the ushers and the ushers asked them what are you doing in here why did you burst into the room like you did you caused the scene a little bit here and the firemen began to explain that they had been called by people from all around the neighborhood and the people were calling and reporting that they were seeing flames of fire on top of the church building that smoke was rising from the facility yet when the firemen arrive they could not see the flames inside the building they saw them on the outside but they did not see them on the inside they saw the smoke they saw the flames but when they entered the building they realized that the fire that was burning was not an earthly fire that it was in fact the fire of the Holy Spirit a manifestation of his presence and power just as the children of Israel were led by a pillar of fire by night so the fire of God manifested in that revival meeting and in fact that wasn't the only time that that had happened at that church they had often had reports of their church building being on fire but not with a natural fire it was the fire of the Holy Spirit and in fact when I've told this story before I've actually seen in the comment sections people tell me about instances that were very similar at their church services but still my point is that there's a fiery nature to the Holy Spirit 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 19 says quench not the spirit now the word quench here is the same word used in Ephesians 6 when the Bible talks about the fiery darts of the enemy in other words it's describing the fiery nature of the Holy Spirit and the Bible clearly tells us quench not the spirit now why would the scripture instruct us or warn us to not quench the Holy Spirit because it's possible to quench the Holy Spirit I'm not saying our disobedience is stronger than him I'm not saying that he abandons us when we make mistakes I'm not saying that he can't do what he wants to do I'm saying that the Holy Spirit honors free will and that when we disobey or when we compromise or when we try to do things our own way or when we're cynical toward the move of the Holy Spirit and criticize everything that he's doing then we begin to diminish the influence of the Holy Spirit in our lives and he allows us to do so because the Holy Spirit respects free will and so when we quench that fire of the Holy Spirit it's to our own detriment how many times a day do we pour water worldly water on the fiery influence of the Holy Spirit in our lives Matthew chapter 3 verse 11 says I baptize with water those who repent of their sins and turn to God but someone is coming soon who is greater than I so much greater that I'm not worthy even to be his slave and carry his sandals he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire here again we see this pairing of the fire and the Holy Spirit in Daniel 10 6 we see something really interesting here and his face as the appearance of lightning and his eyes as lamps of fire and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude notice here in the book of Daniel we see that the vision of the Lord is described that the Lord had fire in his eyes you see this actually description a couple times where the Lord has fire in his eyes I believe that you can see the fiery nature of the Spirit within the eyes of the Lord when you look into the eyes of Jesus I believe you see the fiery nature of the Holy Spirit fire is associated with passion fire represents Holy wrath now you've heard it said that we shouldn't pray for the fire of God because the fire of God represents God's wrath well in some instances yes the fire does represent God's wrath but in other instances the fire also represents the Holy Spirit so when you ask for the fire of God you're asking for the Holy Spirit's presence and power or for the increase of the influence of the Holy Spirit's presence and power just like they did when they prayed next chapter four so fire is associated with passion fire represents God's Holy wrath fire cleanses think about how the children of Israel were instructed to burn the idols that fire that cleansing we must allow to burn in our lives as well the fire represents the Holy Spirit's cleansing power and the fiery zeal that he gives to us the fire is not just the zeal but the fire of the Holy Spirit who is the Holy Spirit gives us that zeal and so when we allow the influence of the Holy Spirit to take full reign in our lives what we experience is a cleansing we become consumed by the Holy Spirit's nature that's a prayer we should pray Holy Spirit in your fiery nature consumed burn away all those things which displease you take away all those things that are not of your nature take away all those things that make me any less like Christ purify me like go the Holy Spirit is the refiner's fire the Holy Spirit is that fiery presence in our life that removes the impurities and causes gold to rise causes the character and the nature of Christ to be developed in us the Holy Spirit is that one who is like that fire in your bones as Jeremiah described him and that fire in your bones gives you that passion and the zeal not just for holiness not just for the things of God but also the word of God he gives you the passion to declare it the passion to be bold he gives you that movement to your life why because there's energy there's life when the fire of the Holy Spirit is burning in you so number one is wind number two is fire and these are the elemental symbols of the Holy Spirit number three is water now when I was about I want to say and sometimes my timeline is a little bit muddled I'm sure many of you might experience something similar unless you sit down and write everything sometimes you have memories that overlap but I believe I was about 14 years old when I had this incredible encounter with the Holy Spirit I went to a church service and this church service was actually being held at a stadium in southern california I think there was like I think you could see like 20 25 000 people if I'm not mistaken and I remember arriving to this service technically on time but by the time I arrived there were seats taken all over and all the sections my grandfather and I had to sit up toward the top the upper section of the stadium and I'll never forget I know I was at least 13 because I was already preaching the gospel I'll never forget the minister down at the platform called out to the congregation and said I want every preacher of the gospel to get down here right now I didn't waste any time I ran out of my seat I ran down to the front and I remember coming into the press of people and it was rather difficult for me to get on the platform with the way that everything was situated and so I'm standing there and I'll never forget it to this moment it was a moment that had a profound impact on my life transformed me forever like marked my life marked my life and I'm standing there and I can feel coming from the platform like currents of water now the platform was pretty high the height of the platform was pretty high I think it was about shoulder height to me and I could feel as if I was in a a a stream of water the worship team and the choir were ministering that song holy holy holy are you lord and to this day we actually sing it in our services if you come to any of our services that's a song we often sing because these are the songs that marked my life and that was one of the songs that just brings me back to that place in the spirit where I first encountered the presence of the holy spirit that strong so the worship team is singing holy holy holy are you lord the elders and angels bow the redeemed worship you now and I remember standing there and my body was rocking because I just felt like these currents it was almost like I was waiting water like I was standing in a pool and the air around me was thick thick like water and I looked up and there was in front of me this usher who was standing on the platform motioning for me to come to him I walked over to him he grabs me by the hand and he pulls me up onto the platform he pulls me up onto the platform and the moment I stepped onto the platform I began to lose my footing it was like rushing water past my feet like like the water was rushing past me and I remember it being kind of like almost slippery like as if I was standing in rushing water that's the best way I could describe it as if I was standing in rushing water and so the usher's moved me forward to the pastor who was ministering he turns to pray for me I remember it was a very light touch just right right here on my face just a very light touch I closed my eyes and I remember thinking oh I guess nothing happened well when I open my eyes it turns out I was actually on the floor looking up at the stadium lights and I looked down at my body I was like shaking because it was like those currents now were in my body the power of the Holy Spirit was moving upon me when the ushers picked me up I couldn't even fill my legs and I'm looking around and I can see people shaking under the power of God they they needed assistance to get back to their seats too they were having trouble finding their way back and so they put us all down in this like this chair section back behind the stage like they just kind of sat us down there and when I had when I was seated in that chair I remember feeling like someone had splash cold water on me like when I was breathing was like refreshing like that was that was the best that was the best way I can describe it because it was almost like shocking like shocking to my system like cold water had been splashed on me and I was just taking a breath afterwards that had happened in one other instance one time when I was praying but it was very similar in that instance as well and I remember my body was shaking and from that moment on there was this this this flow of power on my ministry that I know it was an impartation from the Lord now of course God can use anyone he wants and he can do anything he wants even without us but that's the way God chose to touch my life in that moment that's the way God chose to mark me and that's the way God chose to move me along in the call now not everyone's experience will be the same but that's what I experienced it was that that refreshing water that I sense and even to this day people come on and some people feel like those currents of water moving around them in our services John 7 37 to 39 says this on the last day the climax of the festival Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds anyone who is thirsty may come to me anyone who believes in me may come and drink for the scriptures declare rivers of living water will flow from his heart when he said living water watch this now he was speaking of the spirit who would be given to everyone believing in him but the spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory now the Holy Spirit is not water but water biblically speaking is a symbol of the Holy Spirit Jesus himself used water to symbolize the presence of the Holy Spirit he brings life and refreshing think about how everywhere a river goes there is life that when a river has a nice flow that people can build civilizations next to that river that vegetation and plant life thrives that animal life thrives that people are refreshed and cleansed in a river where the river goes life flows Joel chapter 2 verse 23 and then verses 28 and 29 refer to the presence of the Holy Spirit in a way as water think look at the language being described here be glad then ye children of Zion and rejoice in the Lord your God for he has given you the former rain moderately and he will cause to come down for you the rain the former rain and the latter rain in the first month now watch this what's he talking about and it shall come to pass verse 28 and it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh he's the latter rain and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days I will pour out my spirit here the presence of the Holy Spirit is likened unto water the presence of the Holy Spirit cleanses refreshes quenches and gives life he gives life and vitality to your spirituality if you're tired and you're weary and you're carrying on in ministry just weighed down by the responsibilities it's time to drink from the river if you're struggling with some besetting sin or working to overcome compromise in your life you need to jump into the river for the river cleanses the presence of the Holy Spirit quenches and refreshes only the presence of the Holy Spirit can satisfy the deepest longing of the human heart only the presence of the Holy Spirit can refresh you spiritually only the presence of the Holy Spirit gives life and vitality and movement only the presence of the Holy Spirit is like water for the soul when we walk in the presence of the Holy Spirit we're refreshed we're strengthened we're cleansed stop sipping from the river and jump into the river stop just cupping your hands and saying I'll take just enough to bless me but not enough to inconvenience me stop sipping from the river and jump into the river jump into the flow of God's power jump into the flow of the work of the Holy Spirit surrender to the current to the streams of the Holy Spirit's presence and power number one wind two fire three water I want you to say this right now write it in the comments whether you're watching live or on the replay say Holy Spirit refresh me just write that in the comment section let that be your prayer Holy Spirit refresh me and Father I pray you would do it let that river begin to flow even now even now there's a river flowing even now his presence and powers coming upon you in a strong way just receive Father let the river flow open the floodgates of heaven I pour out your spirit upon your many are being refreshed right now just lift your hands receive don't think about who's looking at you don't think about how others might judge you just lift your hands close your eyes receive now father let that river refresh your people bring life and vitality I believe there are many watching right now who feel as though they've been drained tired weary just sort of struggling along in christian law the rivers of living water are flowing be refreshed in his presence I thank you Lord for touching your people we give you the honor and the glory now I 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The Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training will on Friday, September 24, 2021, launch a two-year initiative referred to as the St. Lucia Connected Activity. The project is funded through a U.S. $1 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development USAID. The project is a timely response to the need for building the resilience and capacity of St. Lucia's education system to address the challenges of online learning posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare the youth to take advantage of the opportunities created by a new digital economy that is driven by technological advancements. In collaboration with World Education Inc., a U.S. non-governmental organization, Sa'afah Lewis Community College, Tuskegee University and other partners, the Ministry will embark on a program of educator professional development, where teachers will enhance their digital skills through training in developing online content to strengthen teaching and learning in a virtual setting. Teachers will also be re-oriented in their methods of teaching instruction through the adoption and infusion of positive youth development approaches that place emphasis on teaching critical life skills. The project, which will be launched virtually, will feature remarks from her Excellency Linda Tagliela Teller, U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the OECS, and the Honorable Sean Edward, Minister for Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training.


I, well, I've been suffering with cramps and it's one of those things they can get really bad. One situation was where they literally had to, I had to call the ambulance and go to the hospital. It was really severe so some of you might understand what I'm talking about. You know, growing up I didn't have any trouble until you know later on in life so it was really one of those things you know I call it my monthly visitor but every time it came I was like oh Jesus please help me change, help me change my diet whatever it is I need to do which has also helped but I've been praying in the Lord that he would one day just you know take those pains away. And how did you receive your healing from this problem? Well it happened at the conference on when Apostle John T was going around praying for leaders and so he prayed for me but he wasn't specifically for that point and then immediately I started having my regular my monthly visitor came along and it lasted instead of two and a half three days which was pretty short normally for women it went pretty much with it went smooth it was pretty much five days and so I was just very taken aback by the blessing. And so you did not experience any pain afterwards? No no pain I was just surprised that I can my monthly visitor can be as as much at that time so without any pain. Yep all us ladies we know what she's talking about a man yeah and I know Michelle that you've got one more one more testimony to share with us about breakthrough in your finances can you please share with us? Well as one committed to the Lord I've always you know the last couple of years pretty much I would say maybe last six years or I've been really seeking God more and more and more and more and so I prior to coming here I was in California and so I start seeking God concerning work because I had gone on the mission feel I came back and I didn't know what you know what path God would put me on and so I started praying about you know getting work again you know or is it your will and the Lord had shown me by revelation two dreams that I would get work but at the time I was living in California and the dreams would be like okay the my former boss was giving me work like okay Lord what is it you're saying so until I came here and the Lord was directing me specifically here specifically to this church and and I was really stressed because I had you know I have my my house was taken no I was foreclosed and there was all these things happening and I had to you know I had just gotten married a lot of stress was going on with me I mean I was my hair was literally falling I had hair falling out of the shower I didn't know what to do and I was had done everything I can possibly do to serve God and seek his face so so I just obeyed and came here and on my by the time might when I got here within a week and a half time literally I got work and it was like it was like the work was pretty much handed to me I didn't even know I wasn't in a job interview was like hey come over oh get your fingerprints I'm like okay you know and the next day they call again come over we'd like you to bring some paper one okay is it that it's an interview no I'm like okay well and I was there and then it was just offered so I just at the same salary that I was when I back was back in when I had left my job to go to on the mission field so how long were you in search for a job and praying for that job I'm about I would say almost about a year I was pretty much without work for about a year and I was living off of my savings and and so as you moved here you got a job right away I got a job a week and a half just just arriving it was like touchdown and I was feeling the application crying my husband like just feeling the I'm like I can't do this you know it's been ten years I can all these little specifics I think it's a good place to clap our hands for Jesus Christ Michelle thank you so much in the conclusion would you please share a word of advice for people who might be struggling with some kind of a pain or a setback in finances what would you tell them we just need to really humble ourselves cry out to God seek his face and pray I'm in second Chronicles 17 I believe I'm not sure 17 maybe four it says very specifically if my people will humble themselves and humility we have a hard time understanding humility humility is being getting on your in on your face at times getting on your knees whatever it takes you to bring yourself at a low state whatever humbles you bring yourself low in your heart in your spirit the other thing is to seek God face the how do we seek him we seek him by being in the word not reading other board other books out there about the word reading God's specific breath word the word of God the Bible the other thing is to pray constantly praying it's not only just having time but throughout the day you're praying saying God bring me truth bring me truth so those are the things and then finally so pray seek humble and yeah pretty much those things if you do those things the Lord will answer your prayer


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I became involved in 2015 I believe the director Doug was just starting on the project and he had a couple of research research assistants and one of them saw my name online for a lecture that I had or a presentation I had given about the history of the Hobart building on Market at Second Street my company which is a historic preservation architecture firm had been working on the building and researching the history so I was learning about it and the Hobart building was one of the buildings that Chesley worked on with Willis Polk so Doug's assistant contacted me I had never heard of Chesley at that point partly I think because Willis Polk took all the credit for himself even though I'm sure he had many people who worked for him and but I was interested in the project and so I ended up contributing some historic research early on I did some exploration of projects that Chesley may have worked on with Willis Polk in his early career here in San Francisco and then another year or so later I did the filming in a little bit of narration and since then took another couple of years I think for editing post-editing and then we've just been showing the film and several of us have attended a few of these types of screenings which has been really fun to be involved in thank you thank you for coming how I got involved almost everybody in this film is a friend of mine when I did my documentary the damnedest finest ruins on 1906 I was a I was a wrestling coach part-time and Ben Burtz who Ben Burtz has won four Oscars for sound effects design his son was on the wrestling team that's how I met Ben and one day I asked him I said I need an editor for my film and Ben said he started rattling off days he said wait a minute I'm an editor and so we started so we worked together on the film then he went to work for Pixar so I had Craig Baron who's one of the great matte painting artists in the world and one of the great authorities on it he's also a friend of mine and then I believe Doug Stewart had actually seen my documentary and knew that I gave a lot of lectures about San Francisco history and so I probably came at it from a little different perspective I was not I was I knew of Chesley's artwork but I was not an authority on his art by any stretch Ben Burton some of the other folks were but because of the fact that I was aware that his designs had helped to sell the Golden Gate Bridge three quarters of the engineers and architects in the United States said you can't do this it's impossible you no one had ever built a big a bridge that big I mean it is still the most influential bridge in the world and and to build a tower in and the Pacific Ocean 65 feet down with the currents through everything it just seemed impossible so and that that case on that they build it in that has the cross section that actually was washed out by a freak wave and stuff and the percentage of skeptics went from 75 percent probably to 95 percent I'll never work Robert could talk more about that probably so they wanted to know for me what I knew about building and rebuilding San Francisco afterward you know and I knew I did for some weird reason know that Chesley almost fell out of the window he was he was quite a carouser to be on the Barbary Coast then till 2 30 in the morning and night before there were not a lot of savory activities going on in the Barbary Coast but I knew some of that stuff so anyway that that's how I got involved in everyone that Doug kept talking to kept saying you gotta get Della Sandra down there he's got an opinion on everything so I guess that's how I got here I guess is that working Doug just came to me because he saw the book I did on the dream of spaceflight but the reason I did that book was actually because I grew up during the time as you did I'm sure to when Bonestil was painting these pictures for colliers and the conquest of space and it's something that the film tried to get at but I don't think really came directly at it is how different the feeling was at that time then it became after the reality after we saw the reality in the 1950s there was a kind of equilibrium or balance in a small moment of time between the romantic fantasy of spaceflight on one side the Buck Rogers flash Gordon the pulps and the coming reality on the other side the v2 is it sent a second stage outside the atmosphere and we saw that it was going to happen and the two the coming reality and the old fantasy kind of enhanced each other and there was a moment when the fantasy was more than fantasy and the reality was more fantastic than it really became and it was a unique time to grow up and care about this sort of thing this was a time when we we still thought that there could be people on Mars I mean really in the 1950s for all we knew they were there were people on Mars I mean that's how little we knew about planetary surfaces a lot was a lot was said about Bonestil's accuracy a lot of things were accurate a lot of the detail but the pictures in the conquest of space for example were not he had a canal on Mars he had castle like rocks on Venus he had a liquid gas waterfall on the surface of Jupiter and so on but they were very romantic images and and just about everyone who became involved in the space program the engineers astronauts scientists most of them say that Bonestil was a motivation to get into the space program so in a way Bonestil launched the space program if we'd had some kind of extra powerful telescope and could have seen the barren realities of these of these planetary surfaces the space program might have been delayed for some indefinite period so Bonestil had that role but now some of those paintings really have shifted from scientific art to nostalgic art there's a nostalgia for me I cut those pictures out of the conquest of space I framed them and commune with those pictures on my wall when I was in junior high school in high school and and I think people born after the moon landing after the Voyager photographs can never really understand the feeling that that my generation had when we had that that momentary balance of the romance and the reality it's a unique period it'll never be again I got involved with this because of not knowing anything about Bonestil's science fiction work but just having discovered his paintings at the bridge and as art they were I've lost my voice I just had some surgery it's not come back yet I'm sorry is that okay now okay I'm sorry thank you anyway so I discovered these paintings at the bridge and that they were artist conceptions done prior and during the construction of the bridge before anybody could really visualize the bridge and so they were you know publicity pieces as such and when I started working to the bridge in 73 I always say that there were still guys there working at the bridge who had built it and so it was an interesting time and there was all you know stuff and there were files and stuff and now the files are archives and the stuff are artifacts as time has gone on we still don't have a museum hopefully they'll be a museum about the bridge someday but in any case came across the paintings and stuff and then this Fred Durant it was who later wrote a coffee table book came out in early 2000s about Bond Still and he was a curator at the Smithsonian and he was putting together a one-man show of Bond Still space science work and so in the process of researching it he'd come across the fact that Bond Still had done this stuff about the Golden Gate Bridge so that was important since the Golden Gate Bridge is so important so he comes to the Golden Gate Bridge and says the word Bond Still to the receptionist at the tell you got to see Bob David so so the conversation started and he advised me that Bond Still was still alive and living in Carmel and so then as a result I went to see Bond Still and the among other things and I bought some little visuals here this particular painting here this is the take that Brian because that's Bond Still one of the paintings he had never signed and so that as said in in the film that's him signing it at his table there and and what's I think is so cool is this is a view this is his studio on top of his house in Carmel and this is a view looking in the other direction of the room and I was sitting on my tripod against the far wall which is the wall you see here and that portal is Trumple it's painted on the wall and I had to be two feet away from it to realize it was so good and it's totally flush it's amazing I go gee it's totally flush he says yeah I painted it there he says so anyway that's just so cool the also in the in this is a view those of you who are Golden Gate bridge groupies like I am if you want to come up and look at this later this is that actual painting of the cross section of the south tower this was a topic of special interest because the it was such a complicated construction underwater such immensity and what have you and he did several cross sectional views of of that of that feature of the bridge so anyway and then then this is him sitting with that painting and my friend Mary Russell is with me here she would come with me one to when I visited the Bond Stills in Carmel she's in the picture but she's in back holding the painting vertically so anyway so then the film of five years ago Doug Stewart come to comes to the bridge and contacts our public information officer who's last name is also David like mine Priya David and you'll see her on KQED starting in the near future she just left the bridge last week take to take a new job she's gonna be doing I forget what it's called but it's that feature that the velvet Davis used to do commentary on news and things but I forget what it's called anyway so he contacted Priya Doug Stewart the film producer and so you gotta see Bob David and so then he was just so gratified when he met me that I had actually met Bond still in person and did these photographs among others and what have you so that's how I got into the film and the history of Bond still and the Golden Gate Bridge so thank you very much for all of you for for talking about that another question well one thing I I have to confess that I didn't know Bonestell before we put together this whole program and so and of course in in the movie and elsewhere you find that he's sort of referred to as like a forgotten artist or nearly forgotten artist why do you think he's nearly forgotten anyone have thoughts on that well half the people in America can't tell you who the vice president is so the fact that we are I don't mean to denigrate my country here I'm an Italian citizen it was well and speak the language quite well and when you go there they can give you chapter and verse and everything that's happened in 2,500 years for some reason America is a strange place maybe it's because we're not a homogeneous people we're a you know we're a polyglot and I don't know what just seems we don't care as much you know it's strange so it's very easy for things to fall by the wayside and and I think there was a point in the film and made a very good one how many of you folks by the way as long as we're asking us questions did not know much or or anything about chesley when this started almost everybody in here do you find it interesting yeah I think this is this is about this is a fun part I guess with the four of us do you know four of us sitting up here is you get to learn about things you know so I guess somebody said to me one time they said you mr. dull senator of people taught history the way you do it I would have paid attention I said I got news here if they did it the way I do it I would have paid attention um so I just think I don't know maybe we have the wrong approach to it you know maybe maybe memorizing the dates is not as interesting as the crazy characters but as it said in the film here the reality of what transpired replaced chesley's interpretations or imagination but you know as went said here without that that wouldn't have happened you know the golden gate bridge might not have been built if chesley had not told people it's going to be beautiful that's the first time I've ever saw I had ever seen that that horrible rendering of how they wanted to build the bridge I've never seen that before and I've been doing lectures on that bridge for a long time and I'd never seen that drawing so I guess I guess it just chesley became obsolete maybe that's the simple answer right it would just be they out they outdid them eventually with science well I think that for all the talk of accuracy that there really was a lot of inaccuracy and they don't the pictures of the solar surfaces of solar planets were were not what we found in the Voyager photographs so so they're really people that didn't grow up with those pictures don't understand the romantic feeling that that they that they that they had that they no longer have because we know they're not not that the reality is anything less there and it's kind of a shift from romantic wonder to intellectual wonder which is probably has a lot more depth and meaning but but I think they they serve their their purpose at their time and when the generation that grew up with them is gone I think maybe a lot a lot will be lost about what who he was and what he was and I would just say that after he passed away and wasn't continuing to produce artwork his pieces are in some collections private collections and otherwise and they've been shown at certain exhibitions but they're not readily available all the time for people to see and access so actually that's one of the great things about this film is that we've been able to share Chesley's story to a lot of people who hadn't been exposed before to his work I think another amazing thing to me about the film and and Chesley Bonestell is is how many different things he did you know he helped with architectural design and you know went to Hollywood and helped with the the films there and then of course had a whole career with the the space art or science fiction art as far as architectural goes Christina how many other buildings did he work on in san francisco um so he was most known for working on the Hobart building and Phyloli I believe he assisted with a handful of other projects for Willis Polk early on in the teens then he left and went to New York and came back and worked on projects in the 1930s which included the bridge as well as some work for the the Golden Gate international exposition on Treasure Island I think partly he he was really an illustrator he rendered these images he showed what they would look like what these buildings would look like once they were completed versus being a technical architect who is doing the blueprints I didn't really find any architectural drawings with his name on them um but he was publicized in architectural journals which is what I was researching because he was showing these beautiful illustrations of what the Hobart building would look like once it was completed things for advertising the projects um and was really talented with perspective which I think then lent itself to his later work both with the Hollywood map painting and his space art his understanding of of space and perspective but can I ask you a question wasn't his um effect on New York more significant than it was in San Francisco the Chrysler building and some others I think he got look when Doug asked me to participate I do what I always do I start researching because you know I mean I know what I know maybe what I could contribute but I'm interested in the whole story it certainly seemed to me Willis Polk was one of those guys who took all the credit or as much credit as you could possibly get and when he when Chesley went to New York um they gave him more free reign I think as I read and I understand it if I'm asking you can question that but he started to design buildings from the outside in in other words it wasn't like they didn't do the structural stuff and then bring Chesley in to do the skeleton Chesley started imagining things he started saying well we could do this so we could do that and then this sort of um you know form follows function is the architectural adage but in this case it certainly seemed like Chesley you know Chesley's conceptions of what they should be and unique looks that he could bring to the buildings you know were the were the focal point as opposed to as you said the nuts and bolts that's that's what I gleaned from reading it he really came into his own in New York more than here is that is that accurate well he was his early career when he was working here so certainly I would expect that he would have developed in his skills over the years um so the the early teens compared to the sorry the 20s when he was in New York just appear he got more um opportunity and respect and they knew that he was so good that they let him um go to the forefront more and in New York than they did here that's what I that's what I've seen everything I read indicated that thank you um so we have let's see we'll have about another um 15 minutes here um I would like to open up to some questions um I'm going to go to the back because I saw this this arm go up first and if you don't mind asking into the microphone thank you very much I know a lot about Chesley's art because I bought the two books his first two books as a boy and was very stimulated but I didn't know anything about the Golden Gate Bridge and about the building so this is a wonderful broadening of my mind about him uh two quick questions if I show up tomorrow with the administration building at the Golden Gate Bridge can I see these things are they open to the public um well the administration building is is exactly that if you have business there you come in and speak to the receptionist and go from there on days of board meetings um which are the uh I think they're always in they've I'm semi-retired now I'm not keeping track of things as I used to um if you look on the Golden Gate Bridge website there is a calendar of events for the board of directors and it'll show that on the fourth Fridays of every month is a board meeting and the board meetings are open to the public so you come in upstairs to the paintings are in the board meeting they're actually hanging in the hallway outside the board meeting about outside the boardroom on the second floor and sometimes just walk in and ask and say you're interested in seeing the the go the pastel paintings uh use my name depending on who you talk to you'll be welcome and second of all I seem to remember um there's only four of them on the wall right now so it's four more than I know about um I seem to remember as a boy also watching the Walt Disney show yeah and I believe they showed the Collier's images in their construction about going into space it might it might correct that those were Bonestell's images that Walt Disney used in his tv show I don't I don't have you're asking me I don't know if they Disney used the Collier's images I don't remember well Bernard von Braun was always on the Disney show if you recall and in that context he must have brought in the images I believe they were actually I believe they were that's because um a lot of his rockets about this much I do know were um he was a fanatic um for trying to be accurate obviously when he was doing the moon early he was inventing things but when he started to work with wonder von Braun um he based his paintings on the science he knew that day that for instance when you left the earth for the atmosphere that the rockets had to separate you couldn't carry that massive rocket with you so it'd go in different segments you got down to the to the smallest of the capsules John Kennedy from what I I've read him been told um read the work of wonder von Braun and saw chesley's drawings and that's why he made that I always thought that was that is inauguration but it wasn't it was later on what he said we'll we'll send the man to the moon in this decade and bring him back safely that was directly based wonder von Braun in the 1950s said we can do this we can go to the moon and come back and he hired chesley for a symposium to do the artwork on that and you know it was clever von Braun he knew that if people could visualize it that it would be a hell lot better than reading his complex mathematical formulas and I John I know I know reasonably sure that was John Kennedy's uh inspiration for picking it was a very forward thinking guy John Kennedy I thought he was a great president and a brilliant guy um so yeah I do believe that that's accurate I'm pretty sure about that okay more questions down here um maybe this is a question for you Christina but anyone who knows um regarding photographs of chesley bonus to himself when he was young and and particularly that photograph in Willis Polk's office showing all the staff I think chesley's one do you know where those photographs can be found who has the rights I'm not sure I didn't find that one myself I would know that um I think that dug the producer's assistance found that one uh but it could be here at the history room in the san francisco library I don't think more the california historical society um other uh repositories include um the uc-berkeley environmental design archives what is in the coffee table book yeah I've seen it I've seen it published in one of the books so the the credit for it must be in the book how about chesley bonus to his own papers or collection I'm guessing it might have come from his family but no one knows okay yeah okay any questions over here I have a comment and a uh question the comment about the crisis building I worked across the street from that in manhattan so I'm listening to an avenue if you ever get to new york and you'd be interested to see an extremely well preserved art deco monument that's the building to see it's gorgeous the lobbies the outside gargoyles everything we've got there makes it a fascinating building to see my question is um how did the u.s. government who led this pursuit of van bran when the german missile development program was absolutely top secret was actually done in uh poland rather than germany who led this initiative of seeing importance of getting someone like van bran who could join a group and point out where other talent existed in the german retreating armies there was a a program after the war to bring german scientists over here I forget the name of his operation something I can't think of the name of it now but they brought all kinds of scientists over in van bran was one of them um there's a story about uh he was trying to escape the uh and he was getting away from the russians and he went into the american zone and and uh he was stopped there and and the rest is history they brought him over here um I can't think of the name of that program but many many of the german scientists were brought over here right after the war there's an interesting little aside on humerus aside on on kennedy's decision to go to the moon everybody knows that that it was mainly to beat the russians as far as the political uh aspect of it and apparently he asked his science advisor what we could do to beat the russians and his first idea was could we desalinate the sea and the science advisor said no we couldn't do that and then he just uh came up the idea came to the maybe we could go to the moon american and british intelligence knew who the geniuses were in the german military and they also knew that russia was going to be their next enemy so the big rush was to get every one of the top german scientists before the russians got them i don't know the name of the program but i can't remember yeah but they they they wanted all that that was a they they had them targeted on brown and all those guys that they were going to snatch them before the russians got them so um that was a big part of program sorry i want to thank you for this program it was absolutely fascinating it seems like uh chelsea was the unsung hero kind of behind a lot of inspiration for the bridge and for the space program um but i'm sitting here just so curious about those s's in his name and just wondering if there's any special symbol symbolic meaning to that um s for space uh is it some kind of secret code that he got from the from uh some outer space um is there any meaning to those you may have stumped the authors i do this every year i do lectures i know it's twice a year you just got me and it's only february uh i because i knew this in the very end he was still putting that little and i thought it was a kind of a slip of his uh hand at that age but now i'm seeing it now it was very purposeful yeah but when he signed the painting in 82 or 83 i guess it was of that painting it was obviously not as steady as it used to be but he still had those little details yes he did yeah yeah well i'd like to add one more comment too on in terms of bond still in the bridge and overall i do a lecture about the history of the bridge uh frequently and in it um the architects for the bridge was a husband wife team by the name of Irving and Gertrude Marl er Gertrude was one of the first women to graduate in architecture at Berkeley uh and and they they had a firm they call themselves Marl and Marl they were in the D young building on market street and they were referred to Joseph Strauss the engineer of the bridge by among other by uh ira interestingly by um Maynard Dixon the painter and at that time Maynard Dixon the painter was married to Dorothea Lang the photographer and so the Marlows and Marl Marl and Marl and Maynard Dixon and Chesley Bond Stell i attribute to be the artistic consortium that this decided the bridge would be orange and that that's a big deal because bridges were always gray or there was a pale green they use sometimes and sometimes absolute black and so the Golden Gate Bridge being orange was a big big deal when it was done and of course it's part of its landmark feature so anyway i put that on the table for you uh and Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lang at that time lived on Gulf Street between uh Green and Vallejo which happens to be near where i live i never knew them of course way before my time but in any case Bond Stell and Strauss would visit them there at the house uh along with the Marlows and stuff and so there was this ongoing thing i was in touch with the Dixon's two sons in the 1980s and so i got the dinner table talk from the 1930s and uh so it was just interesting to hear about that happening so and picking up on Maynard Dixon and stuff you know his paintings now we have a Maynard Dixon painting at the bridge it's right in the main lobby as soon as you walk in on the left it's large 40 by 60 unusual for Maynard Dixon and but you look at it and you say oh my god that's Maynard Dixon and it's signed as well but um in any case uh when we we had an exhibit about the bridge at the California Historical Society for the 75th anniversary of the bridge in 2012 and it was the first time that this artwork the Dixon and the Bond Stell pieces and some other feet pieces uh left the building and went down to the Historical Society for the sake of the installation there and they were there almost a full year at the California Historical Society on Mission Street and the uh so they had for the first time ever these things had to be appraised to be insured to be transported and uh and they praised the Bond Stell pieces at about 50,000 each um especially the large one and then but the Bond the Dixon one they praised at only 125,000 and I said wait a minute his stuff goes for one to two million and they said well it's not his seminal work I go but yeah it's not his grandmother's rocking chair it's the Golden Gate Bridge you know and and of course then I realized later the job of this appraiser was to low ball it for the sake of the insurance premium so anyway that's a little aside on art any other questions okay one question over here hi thank you very much for the movie uh we all really appreciated it uh the operation paper clip was a name of the mission to capture the journals operation paper clip yes it was three or four years ago by the same title it was fascinating to read two quick questions uh one in the lobby of the administration building on Treasure Island there's some really interesting murals that show recovery of capsules in the ocean is there any connection to Bond Stell with those and second question I was really interested to hear about connection between uh Buckminster Fuller and Bond Stell do you can you tell us anything more about collaborations or conversations or information about that relationship thank you he only said he was here for dinner that night with Ansel Adams that's how I learned about it I talked about it later with Ansel Adams a few months later he corroborated the story but what the real connection with buck bucky Fuller was I'm not sure other the fact that you know they're visionaries in that same aura of things you know structures and you know domes etc and what have you I suspect in again the coffee table book by Durant about Bond Stell would be the primary source to really get into all of the details of this stuff so it came out in I get 2005 or something like that I don't know of any connection with the murals in in the Treasure Island building I don't think that there is one I have a question about his biography some of the details it it seems like he did not want for female companionship ever in his life does anyone have any insights into his charisma or his dating secrets he seemed to have quite a interesting life my only observation was the guy spent a hell of a lot of time on the Barbary Coast yeah he started out early like I like I said there there were no churches on the Barbary Coast that I know of it you know it made story villain New Orleans look tame and he was there a lot so it just seemed like he was you know I don't know that much about his life but I always stuck out to me that he was there a lot starting as a teenager I mean reasonably young like 15 16 years old you know it's amazing he didn't get Shanghai which would so we would have a slightly different story I think probably wouldn't be here if that had happened you what Rowdy yeah I guess yeah a little bit yeah and who his wife when I met him which was his fourth but fourth wife third woman the delightful person of all sorts and when he passed away in 86 she stayed in touch and she was classic old-time letter writer and would send us letters and things and then she she wanted to go to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge and and stuff and so in her late 80s after she had just had a hip replacement I took her up there and she was just wonderful character I mean just fabulous so so we have time for just one last question here yeah thank you guys for your contributions to this beautiful homage I was wondering since you guys seem to have a rich vast like history and of storytelling for San Francisco is there something in the water from Hatshachi with the imaginary where a lot of these like these storytellers for either through paintings or like Lucas films have set their imaginations into reality by coalescing these sort of what you were saying like the the space art sort of led to that exploration of Warner of a brawn even the the Golden Gate Bridge example where these artists came together are there other stories that you guys could share from local residents artists who've changed things well it's imagineered like sort of set a tone of coalescing what the future could look like and sort of well probably yeah but maybe not so much in painting I mean Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence further than get he changed America Allen Ginsberg's howl changed American poetry in 1956 or 57 the United States Supreme Court struck down the obscenity laws because of howl you know and I mean Lawrence further get he was a submarine commander in the Second World War I've known him for 50 years you know he was a great mentor and friend to me and he only opened that bookstore because he married a southern bell with a lot of money and he just decided he was going to do something different you know he and so there's a lot of visionary so that so I mean that just just think of what that grew into that grew into the hippie movement that grew into the environmental movement that grew into the summer of love that grew into you know San Francisco was a conservative city San Francisco had nothing but conservative mayors and and and crazy police chiefs and and were quite a bit different from that now you know so I believe that the city of San Francisco has had a had a profound effect on world culture that's unequaled by any other modern city I mean just look at that little area down there from the 1840s where you know when the city was first discovered in 1776 when it was first discovered by the Spaniards I mean Levi Strauss and and modern banking with you know with APG and ENI and all the things that that happened the television was invented in San Francisco the corner of green and get what's with the cross street which is a little Samsung yeah so we'll look at George Lucas did you know not necessary for the better if you've seen movies lately to some degree you know I don't I don't have nothing against that stuff I have all the other stuff just all the all the dramatic stuff no one would make Chinatown today or on the waterfront you know so I think it's just I think Chesley was one person who had an influence on a certain field in a city that has a habit of of influencing the world a disproportionate to its size you know I think it's extraordinary what has happened here that's I've been studying this now all my adult life and I'm just constantly amazed this is just one other chapter in my amazement and I don't even know why I'm sitting here I mean it's just was a weird thing that I got plucked to to to do this and I was knocked out by the opportunity well thank you so much we really appreciate it