I want to welcome you on behalf of the Diversity Committee from our school. I'm currently sharing the committee and we've put together a diversity webinar series for 2020. And today is our seventh webinar of the eight-part series. We have one more in November. And our presenters are sharing content around diverse topics which align with the goals of inclusive excellence and diversity, equity, inclusion, which really are tied into our mission of the school as well as our college and our university. You will be able to find a full list of past presentations as well as the upcoming one on our website. And I will share with you the upcoming webcast link as well as the on-demand page where you can locate prior recordings. We do also have a YouTube playlist dedicated to the Diversity Series, and I will share that link in a moment in chat, and our podcast. So several ways in which you can access these wonderful presentations afterwards. Tawana Hodg, she is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian at the University of Florida, George A. Smaither's Libraries. And she's presenting today on integrating cultural humility into librarianship.  Thank you, Michelle. Let me go ahead and share my screen. So it is a pleasure to be speaking to you all here today. I appreciate, Michelle, for doing a call for presenters and kind of accepting me to present on this topic. I first started learning about culture humility over five years ago when I was a Diversity Resident Librarian at the University of Utah, and learning with this alongside Lorelai Rutledge and Alfred Maldue, who I credit for, you know, being a part of the foundation for learning about this. And so I just want to acknowledge that it is a National Hispanic Heritage Month. This kind of goes beyond just, you know, acknowledging months or celebration awareness month, but to understand the contributions that those who are Hispanic or Latinx provide to this country and around the world as well, and that, you know, supporting people and celebrating them goes beyond just beyond a month, a day, or a year. I also want to acknowledge that it's National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and this is actually the same year that ADA, the American Disability Act, actually turns 30. And so there's a lot to acknowledge and to celebrate in this regards and wanting to make sure that people with disabilities, whether it's physical or psychological, that they are able to bring their full selves to work. So such an objective is that you learn about the concept of cultural humility, the difference between cultural competency and cultural humility. Why should we integrate this into a librarianship as well as several recommendations and how to do so? Okay, so these are just some conversation guidelines to help, you know, flow with the session here today. So respect, listening, using I statements. I think I feel not co-opting the experiences of someone else, feeling honored and present, acknowledging that there's a lot of things that's ongoing, you know, thinking about COVID-19, the fact, you know, civil unrest and other things of that nature. And so very happy that you are here with us here today and so continuing to be engaged with us. The right to disagree, understanding that, you know, there's conflict of opinions. And there are degrees to disagreements that it's going to touch on that a little bit more. The right to risk or to pass because I will be engaging with you all. And so I'm not going to be the stage-on-stage type thing. I'm going to be asking you all questions and really wanting to engage with you all, especially in the chat box and feel free to utilize the Q&A feature to ask me hard questions, challenging questions, questions that makes me pause and think. I am assuming that you have good intentions because you are here today, staying open to the process, you know, leading into your discomfort. Making space for others and taking space for, taking up space where space traditionally have not been made for folks. And this is a call-a-break space. So if you identify as iPOC, I want you to feel empowered to share your perspectives, to add comments, to ask questions. And this is from Deborah Daniels, University of Utah's Women Resource Center. And then next up are break space agreements. I initially learned about this through the ACRL virtual event. The keynote was Mackenzie Mack. And I fell in love with these and I've been using them ever since, which has been a few months since then. And so created by Mackenzie Mack, but inspired by Mickey Scott B. Jones. So the break space agreements are we agree to struggle against racism, sexism, transphobia, classism, sexism, and ableism. And the ways we internalize myths and misinformation about our own identities and identities of other people. We know that no space can be completely safe. And we agree to work together towards harm reduction, centering those most affected by injustice in a room, even if it means centering ourselves. We agree to set with a discomfort that comes with having conversations about race, gender, identity, the nonprofit and national complex, et cetera. We agree to try our best not to shame ourselves for the vulnerability that these kinds of conversations require. We agree to value the viewpoints of other people that do not challenge a conflict with our right to exist or challenge a conflict with another's right to exist. We agree that it's okay to have feelings. It's okay to feel uncomfortable when we are discussing conflict topics about boundaries, accountability, personal relationships, organizational relationships, justice and care. And so if you agree, I would like for you, and if you have access to the chat box to type in, I agree that you agree with these break space agreements and as we have this conversation and learn more about culture, humility and other topics here today that you abide by these agreements. So I'm going to give people a few seconds to type in, I agree, if you agree with the break space agreements. And Tawana, I'm just going to hop in because I don't know if you can see the chat, but we are getting lots of I agrees, majority, actually all I agrees thus far. Okay, that is great because I don't have access to the chat. So thank you everyone for agreeing to the break space agreements. And so Michelle had talked about the progress of stacking and so I'm just going to briefly reiterate it again in terms of if you identify as part of our marginalized group or in a representative group, especially if you're a BIPOC to use an asterisk at the start of your question or comment and then it gets routed to the top. So feel free to do that. We acknowledge that you have to self-identify, but progressive stacking is a way to give underrepresented voices the chance to speak first. Okay, so I just want to briefly do a breathing exercise and this is something that I've kind of adopted from one of the people I admire. Manda Lefroy, she's the founder of Mindfulness and LIS and just taking the moment to take a few deep breaths.  Are you being present? You know, I'm being present. What is your body telling you? What are you feeling? It's just kind of sitting with that for like a few seconds and it's just a way for us to calm down. You know, after we've probably been going since seven, eight, nine o'clock in the morning and that we have the opportunity to just sit and breathe for a moment. Thank you. All right. So ALA Code of Ethics. So most people have probably seen the ALA Code of Ethics. Why are probably, you're probably thinking about why do I bring this up? And this has been a core part of any cultural humility presentation that I do because, you know, this is our guide to ethical decision-making. Kind of a framework for dealing with situation involving ethical conflicts. And so one of the, one of this is just we provide the highest level of service to all library users, you know. And so we essentially, seeing that anyone that comes through our doors, okay, that we serve them and we serve them through appropriate and usefully organized resources, equitable service policies, equitable access and accurate unbiased and courteous responses to all requests. And this is something that we say that we strive to do day in and day out. But one of the things, and I would want you all to chime in in the chat box, when can you think about times where we happened, you know, provided the highest level of service to all library users, you know, where we seem to be erring on the side of inequitable service policies or inequitable access that, you know, how we respond to requests can be biased at times. What are some examples that you can think of, and this is not just truest libraries, but if you are outside of libraries, think about the things that you do and the policies and procedures that we may uphold that are not, you know, serving everyone. So there have been a couple comments. So e-book access, programming, Library of Congress subject headings that are biased or old terminology. Yeah, and those are just some examples of many that we can think of. And that's not to come from a deficient way of thinking, you know, libraries, you know, the goal of libraries providing access to information for all, you know, this is not a neutral or something that is objective, you know, this is something that, you know, we are, you know, libraries are very passionate about, library work is a very passionate about and has given so much to this, but also acknowledging that libraries are a reflection of the societies that we live in.  Okay, prioritizing security of things over inclusivity, such as creating barriers to people by, for example, requiring IDs to use the archives or special collections, making assumptions about tech access, saying quote, text us when you arrive, quote for curbside pickup, for example. Really with COVID, there's a lot of discussion here about shifting in-person programs to online libraries currently opening, but only allowing access to students that our university serves and not the public. Though we have traditionally been a public library, continue to support expensive subscription access publishing models that have been known behind a gate, or keep knowledge behind the gate, I should say, needing an address to sign up for a library card, police presence, partners for security, library fines, another great example, and then strict limits on which community members can enter or use the library even before COVID. So again, that aspect, and there's several others, forcing users to sign up for a card when they can choose not to, intimidating for their address when they might be or could be homeless, and also a library website, maybe mostly in English. So there's little to no visibility of, say, world language resources. And those are a lot of really great examples of some of the ways that gatekeeping occurs. And the thing is that for some of these, it's intentional, and some of them are unintentional. They are just byproducts of not really diving deeper into the changing demographics of our communities, you know? And in regards to what happened earlier this summer that is still affecting us before, during, and still now, with the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Arbria Mann, and the slew of people who I frame it as a lot of, most of America and other people globally acknowledging that racism is still a thing, you know? And that a lot of statements came out of that. And an understanding that for people of color in this country, their, how they operate, their lifestyles are vastly different than whites or Caucasian folks worldwide, but particularly in America.  That's not what we're saying. We're saying that as a black woman, I live and navigate this world, particularly in this country, a little differently. And so there was just a number of different statements that came out and acknowledging, you know, racism and anti-black racism that exists, you know? For those of you who may know, may not know, the librarianship profession is 86% white, even with the inclusion of the AERA Kaleidoscope Program, which was formerly known, I believe it was initiative to recruit a diverse workforce, as well as a spectrums program. And if you're a spectrum scholar, feel free to shout out in the chat box. But, you know, people, they have recruited, particularly people of color into the profession, almost at the same time that people of color are leaving, you know? And so really thinking about, what is our retention policies and things of that nature. And San Jose State University, which is libraries, which is an academic and research library, and even thinking about how the focus of the core commitment of values influence the things that we do, you know? That for ACRL, acknowledge and address historical racial inequities, you know, challenge oppressive systems. And a lot of that is for us to start thinking about, what do we know about the communities that we serve? What do we know about the history? And what ways have there, what ways have we have had gaps and how are we correcting those gaps? And that all of these different statements, you know, means that we have not been doing this on a, you know, mainstream level previously. And there's been library, there's been articles that have been written about how even in libraries, though we fight for democracy, you know, there's a way that we end up promoting whiteness. And wherein everything that is not white is other, you know, and getting, and getting at that and getting at what does it mean if somebody who's undocumented looks at our catalog, our library catalog and see the use of illegal aliens, you know, and this is referring to the documentary change the subject, which I would suggest that people watch if you're unfamiliar with it. And I'm thinking about vocational awe, you know, and provides the article, like amazing article that was written over two years ago. And if you're not familiar with it, I strongly suggest that you read it. But for this article, basically asking us to think about, you know, we think of librarianship as being inherently good, secret notions and therefore beyond critique.  Yes, I will post the name of the documentary into the chat box. And so culture is, culture is our way of living. It is complex, it is dynamic, continually involving, constantly in flux by our experiences by the people that come into this country, the people that live here, the people who were born and raised here, people who immigrate here. It's always in flux and the food and the language and the things that we cherish, you know, but there's also isms and phobias. So racism, sexism, classism, sizeism, ableism, ethnocentrism, antisemitism, ageism and phobias such as homophobia, ismphobia, xenophobia and transphobia. There's any that I might be missing, feel free to add them to the chat box. But a question to you all, have you all experienced these in terms of people who've been, you know, sexists or racists or plasses or elitists? You know, in terms of academic institutions, there's that difference between like if you're affiliated with the institution or if it's not, you know, sizeism, ableism, even thinking about ableism and those with invisible disability versus a physical disability. You know, what has been your experiences like? What have you had to fight for? And Tawana, I'll just jump in real quick about the documentary. Has that changed the subject? Is that the one you're referring to? Okay, so just so everybody knows, I'll put it in the chat. Change the subject is being aired on PBS for free through December. So I'm going to put the link into the chat for all of you. And there were just a few additional comments I want to add here. Someone mentioned earlier about creating programming centered only on white clientele when the community is changing and adding a collection in different languages not enough so everyone should be represented equally as well as continuing to support library publishers and vendors who do not comply with current accessibility standards. So even considering accessibility. And you're asking about isms, rankism, particularly within academic institutions, sizeism. So feeling like there's something that is overlooked a lot, sizeism. Those are the other two that came up. Thank you. Thank you for contributing. You all and I will make sure to update the slide to include the things that you will have added from the chat box. And so I'm going to go through these next few slides a little quickly because I think at this point everyone knows what implicit bias is and kind of understanding that they're pervasive. They're separate and distinct from explicit biases and beliefs in most cases and they take consistent long-term effort to minimize your bias response. And from this article from Andrews Kim and Watanabe, Cultural Humility as a Transformative Framework for Library Institutes and Youth, just kind of some examples. You know, people might feel uncomfortable. They have varying levels of confidence with cultures outside of their own. Sometimes, you know, people have a tendency to declare a patron's or a student name is too difficult to pronounce or spell. You know, and say they give them maybe an English sounding name or they give them a nickname. I can't tell you how many times I've had my name is spelled. Even by Zoom, you know, it differs from my correct name, spelling name.  Making assumptions about the home life or the culture of the patron. We have a tendency to lead to those assumptions. We have these automatic associations that occur from the media, from previous experiences that allow us to kind of make those associations, those assumptions and being able to relate to diverse life experiences. So there's this precious association test that exists and it's just a way to kind of try to figure out what our implicit biases may be. There's been a lot of debate and conversation about the validity of it and things of that nature. I'm not here to tell you you must take it or anything like that. This is just one of several ways of trying to get at what our implicit biases might be. And our biases impact. They may not always kind of lead to an action necessarily. It might just be things that we think or perceive of others. But when we engage with other people, these associations have a tendency to control us whether we are conscious of them or not. There are a privilege checklist that exists. So these are just a few and to just quickly read one from each. The thin privilege checklist. I can go home from meetings, classes and conversations to not feel excluded, fearful, attack, isolated, outnumbered, unheard or afraid at a distance because of the size of my body. I can worry about, this is from the white privilege checklist. I can worry about racism without being seen as a self-interested or self-seeking. And from the able privilege checklist, parts of your body or extensions of your body are not referred to as that thing.  And so I am going to put the link into the chat box for you all.  And on the line, essentially, you're going to write down, well, not write down, but you could if you wanted to, but you can just mentally just state, where do you think, if it's closer to the middle, your identity have more privilege. If it's closer to the edge, it has less privilege. And then thinking about, and then part of the activity that I want a few people to share in the chat box is to identify three salient identities. That means the most to you, that you, that is important to you, and kind of list why. And so let me bring up the chat box and give you guys this link. So I will give you all a minute or two to do it, to work on this, but essentially, you're going to kind of look at this and for this activity to identify three identities that are important to you, because what is important to you is not always important to, is not important, what's important to you is not always what other people describe to you, or want to talk to you about, essentially, or Dean, that should be important to you. And so I'm just going to give you a minute to do this. And as you think about this, I'm just going to go through the next few slides, but I really do want a few brave participants, volunteers, to just put in the chat box, what your three important identities are and why. So some bias-reducing strategies, and you all will have access to this PowerPoint presentation. And like I said, feel free to add questions into the chat box.  Counter-stereotypic imaging is imagining an individual situation that contracts your stereotype. People might assume that women are bad drivers, and envisioning that, you know, a woman is a NASCAR driver, things of that nature. Another one is positive contacts. So this is, I think, something that libraries do particularly well is positive contacts, increasing opportunities for positive contacts with members of a stereotype group. So I see this happening in academic and public libraries and other libraries as well. So I'm going to stop right there and see if there was any folks who added anything to the chat box. No responses yet, but again, this is completely voluntary, and if you'd like to share, and what was it, three identities as well as why you chose them? Yes, from the wheel. And so if you, you know, say that age, education, or, you know, race and race if you're black, kind of really thinking about what are the things that's most important to you? Because I think a lot of times we don't have the opportunity to stop and reflect and think about what are all my identities, you know, and being able to call them out. And so community support is being able to find organizations, associations, and groups that support or aids in your different identities. So that you can find, like say a therapist, you can find grocery stores that sell food that you're familiar with, that you grew up eating, that you're able to find religious support in that, in your community.  Thank you for that question, Laura. And so Francis put in the chat about education, religion, and age, that they shape how they think about the world and that they change. And that's the thing is that our identities and what are we selling identities might change over time, you know? And so for us to be able to acknowledge that and some of them are social constructs that power and meaning have been infused, you know, into them. And so thank you all for sharing. And so, that's the thing that you all was probably itching to get at. So cultural humility. Cultural humility incorporates a lifelong commitment. So this is not something you, you know, can decide. I'm just going to do it for like two seconds and then that's it. And this is self-evaluation and self-critique. And it's not critiquing to say that it's in a deficient way of thinking or anything like that, you know? So acknowledge that we can't possibly know everything that there is to know about a particular group and their culture. And a question I will pose to you all. What do you, how would you describe American culture? And so feel free to put in the chat box. You know, how would you describe American culture? Particularly to someone who did not, was, did not grow up in America, was not born and raised here. And so as people are happily in the chat box I'm just going to continue with this definition. And it's redressing the power imbalances. And in this particular, this is coming from the medical field in regards to the patient physician dynamic in developing mutually beneficial and non-paternalistic partnerships. It is being other-oriented or person or patron-centered. It is honoring who that person is and what they bring. Okay. Is engaging in consent and consistent self-affection.  Is it expressed in respect and a lack of superiority even when cultural differences are present? And so it's not kind of falling into that trap of ethnocentrism of believing that one culture is superior to another or one perspective or lifestyle is superior to another. But I'm going to stop right there and see if there was any folks who responded to the question. How would you describe American culture, especially to someone who was not born or raised here? I think everyone's really excited and engaged with the identity exercise. So I don't know that we've moved to that question but it's been great, the engagement and the sharing here. So thank you everyone. Yes, thank you. Let me see if I can see the chat box. Okay, yes, now I can see the chat box. Yes, thank you so much for sharing and just scrolling up and just looking at some of this. Because when we think about it, like the identities that we hold, they have a culture to them, a set of norms and mannerisms and language and how we talk to certain people, how we don't talk to certain people and who we engage to, whether we pray in the morning or not, we take Sundays off or not, or how we dress, things of that nature. And so in understanding that, for me, I was born or raised in St. Thomas, which is an island. I like to say it in the middle of the Caribbean seas, 32 square miles. I'm American by birth, birthright citizenship, but I did not grow up in the mainland. And so that's very different from the Black people that I've met who was born and raised here. And though we are Black, I consider myself Afro-Caribbean, my experiences are vastly different. And even within BIPOC, and even within folks who are melanated, their experiences are not all the same. And there's sometimes this expectation that all BIPOC people know all BIPOC people and have the same experiences. Not exactly, no. And so if people are putting in, in terms of like, how would they describe American culture? And some people are saying American exception, very xenophobic and hateful at times, consumerism heavy, self-worth through consumeristic ideals and different stuff like that. And people are saying similar things, people are saying different things. And so really understanding that depending on who you are and where you were born, which I wouldn't say timeline, which generation you were born into, the movements, you know, that kind of influences how people perceive and experience the world. And so, you know, thinking about that. And so for me, cultural competency, which has been something that has been integrated in so many disciplines, and there was even a class I had in graduate school that talked about cultural competency, the challenge with cultural competency, I think is that there's people who believe that we can be competent in a culture. In ours and other people's, excuse me, that there is a set of characteristics or criteria that you can read this book chapter and not really understand, you know, Native Americans and, you know, their relationship with the healthcare system and different stuff like that. And to acknowledge that, one, we, there's no, and for somebody to say that competency, that, you know, we do this one thing, we get this type of approval, we are competent, we don't need any ongoing training or education on this. And it also to me puts the onus on that person from that culture to educate us, to educate me on your culture. And the flip side of a cultural humility, or maybe cultural humility is kind of a, on the spectrum, which is kind of a moving point on the next step, is that cultural humility is, you know, for us taken on the onus of educating ourselves about different communities that we're working and engaging with. And so for cultural humility, it can empower a stronger sense of pride in one culture that you don't have to make excuses or provide disclaimers or anything like that, acknowledging and feeling a sense of, like they say, pride and encouraging, you know, people to respect one another's culture. And not, somebody mentioned that, a melting pot.  And that's not what we mean. And I think, you know, libraries have an opportunity to dismantle dominance their typical narratives because we're in the business of collecting information from everyone's perspective, you know, and making sure that we are working with those communities that we are collecting from and we acknowledging that our previous practices have been questionable at best, extremely traumatizing and problematic at worst, but acknowledging that and working on restorative justice and reconciliation in different aspects. And that self-affection is realistic and ongoing, self-appraisal, it's mindfulness, it's taking the time. We're so busy. And I think sometimes, you know, there's that pridefulness in being busy. We're so busy that we, at tendency, and we have so much that puts on us that you're doing for people's job at once, that we're unable to take the time to be mindful, you know, that would allow us to check our power imbalances and challenge assumption, you know, understanding that this is sustained commitment. And it's like when you're exercising, you know, you haven't done it for a while and you're trying to get your body to do this. And so you're not trying to do everything at once, but you're starting off in bits and pieces that are sustainable. This is active engagement. It's not passive. You know, somebody is not watching this presentation or the other things or diving into the other resources is not going to mean that, uh-huh, you know, you're just consuming it and you're not doing anything with it. And this is lifelong. There's no checklist. There's no stopping point. You're not going to get a handout that's like, this is step one, and then this is step 50. If you do this, then this happens. That's the beauty of cultural humility to me. Be humble. And so this is a model. Be humble about the assumptions you make about knowing the world from your peasants or patrons or colleagues' shoes. This is not always a patron-centered of focus. Understand how your own background can impact the care or the service that you provide for your patrons. Motivate to learn more about other people's background and culture. For me, it feels like it shouldn't, you shouldn't have to, we shouldn't have to wait until bodies drop, until lives are lost, until people feel that they are dehumanized in order for us to do the necessary work to learn about others. And as you learn and understanding, you know, about different perspectives, begin incorporating this into how you understand people and engage with them, that this is lifelong learning and emphasize respect and really just genuinely listening to people. So I'm going to stop right there and see if there's any questions or comments before I move on. Tawana, I have a comment I want to mention here. So I teach a new course at San Jose, Cultural Competence for Information Professionals. And the way I've really described cultural competence is that it's a journey and it's ongoing. It's not, you go through these steps and you're proficient. So it's a, I think it ties in with its lifelong learning, but it's also an engagement process. It may change. You might, you know, take 10 steps back and then maybe 10 steps forward, but it's not really linear in the sense that it is an ongoing journey. And I really like how you describe how cultural humility is different in the spectrum and how it fits in. If it's in with cultural competency and really the self-awareness, the biases, understanding your own values and value orientations. So I appreciate this piece and I'm going to ensure my students listen to this if they're not here today because it directly relates to the course I'm teaching. And I even think I will modify and add just a specific module on cultural humility. So thank you. You're welcome. And there are pros and cons. There's pros and cons with anything. And I think with cultural competency, there is a lot of things to be taken from it and to be embedded and to be utilized.  I can't remember the exact term because it legitimately combined it. But I'll find that article and send it to you, Michelle.  You're going to be asking those questions and even being conscious about the questions we ask and how some of those questions we ask can reinforce assumptions, you know, and may end up making the person uncomfortable to even reveal some more, you know. And Tawana, there is a question that's come into the chat if you might want to address it now. I see it. In the Q&A, I'm sorry, it's not in the chat. What are the best ways to deal with personal biases to you? I find that it is important to library workers to understand other cultures and that because of seniority, learning about other people's culture does not seem to be important to their work anymore. How must a large library system make sure that this is a priority and this is important? To answer your first question, I think once you understand what your biases are, I think really looking at, like the bias-reducing strategies, you know, is one way to learn how to reduce your bias response. I think it's being able to engage in that self-reflection. It's having people you trust, like in different settings, who are willing to call you out.  But to kind of help you think about, maybe there's another way that this could have been said or even thinking about our moments of silence. And in terms of prioritization from those who are in senior or administrative leadership positions, I think for me, I always connect it back to what is the mission, vision, and strategic plan. You know, if it has anything in there about providing a welcoming inclusive community, how can we do that if we don't generally know what our community and understand how our biases can potentially, and most of the time to impact how we design programming, the services that we provide people, you know, how are we making sure that we are getting critical feedback? How are we keeping ourselves accountable, you know, to these things that we said that we are doing? At my university, after in their acknowledging racism, their 15-point plan, you know, they talked a lot about, you know, focusing on Black experience for 2021 and different stuff like that. And there's been a number of statements that came out from different organizations. And for me, it's following up with them. If they don't make it a priority, and if it's not important to them, then what is? If it's not serving their community in a way that everyone feels welcome and invited and feel like they belong, then what else is more important? And I frame it that way because we are in the business of supporting people, including our colleagues, including our patrons. So we have to be able to understand what their lived experiences are and making sure that they do not feel like they are perpetual strangers or that they are othered in this country that they have every right to be considered a human being and have basic human dignity and respect. So, honey, I hope that hopefully that I've answered your question. Erin, you're interested in other ways, in ways other libraries have engaged to their cultural communities to find out the resources, programming, support that they want from their library. So I think that this could be a question to folks in the who are participating and who are here, so feel free to chime in and answer that question. I think for me, in my job, I've been here for eight months. I haven't had the opportunity to systematically dive into the community, but I've embraced the opportunities of meeting with other people and letting them connect me to others, that relationship building, that trust. But acknowledging that libraries from a lot of underserved and underrepresented communities that libraries may not be seen as a place that they trust because it's an institution and at times libraries have not been for the people. And so it's acknowledging that historical and intergenerational trauma, acknowledging that there is trust that has been eroded to the point that it doesn't exist anymore and it's really figuring out the history, you know, what has happened, what is still happening. And it's not just the job of like a community engagement person or department, it's everyone's job because when somebody comes into the library, they for the general public or for any student faculty or staff, they're not going to say, understand the person from the front desk, you know, from an AED essentially. And so it's getting everyone to understand that part of their job is working to learn about their communities. Oh gosh, I have eight minutes left. So Erin, hopefully I've answered your question and I think that there are other people who will, who might respond to this question but I think it's a great question. Okay. Engaging in reflective practice, I won't hammer this any further but guiding questions for critical reflection. So in what ways do I consider my PhDs unique circumstances? Do I lump them together and base my interaction and previous experiences with members from their cultural groups? You know, what, in what ways are unit library, so like your unit or department or library, state, national, international, organization, association, policies, enact racism, classism, sexism and other power relations. So taking it into these policies and procedures that we, you know, uphold, you know, and thinking about, are they reinforcing the particular perspectives and people that we, that we serve, you know, what are my own cultural experiences? You know, how do they ship my practice? And so openness, reflective practice, journaling. I used to not be a really great journaler but even if it's just jotting down a few thoughts and it's carving time out of your day, whether it's in the beginning, middle or end, to engage in this, this reflective practice which journaling can help you with. And so kind of getting closer to the end of my presentation because I really do want other people to ask me a lot more questions and to challenge me. I'm always excited about that. So things for the trainings and other stuff that we do. Using non-dominant first-person perspective.  And it goes beyond just like adding, you know, citing black women or, you know, citing people of color and things of that nature is really looking at like, do you have a statement that encourages definition, not definitions, encouraging discussion on controversial, uncomfortable topics, you know, because I'll get to that a little bit later. Using lived experience. You know, there's people who privilege credentials over lived experience and to me, they one should not be privileged over the other. When I used to teach instruction sessions, you know, I used to use the example that, you know, you could have somebody who has a PhD in molecular engineering.  Encourage groups to explain their reasoning. Use examples that reverse common stereotypes and discuss race, social class and privilege. And there's been information about how the demographics of higher ed changing the demographics of this nation is changing and making sure that we are being proactive and not reactive. And so, you know, with COVID-19 acknowledging that community involvement might be incredibly difficult, especially since a lot of you all mentioned about in order to use library, you have to be, especially an academic library, you have to be affiliated in some way, ship or form. But I think, you know, providing the opportunity for the community to be involved in different steps of the way and for them to be co-creators in some of the things that we do. You know, providing opportunities for positive encounters, which is what this is part of and which this is doing. And question how your biases may affect the services you provide at your library. And remembering that learning happens through discomfort, areas of growth for ourselves, some key takeaways. And as engaging in these conversations, I have a ton of resources that is what I'm really good at. My references and Kimberly Crenshaw, Dr. Kimberly Crenshaw, who is known as the founder of Intersectionality. If we can't see your problem, we can't fix the problem. And so, any other questions? And then this is my contact information. Thank you. Thank you so much, Tawana. This was, I took like two pages of notes. So this is really informative for me and in my courses and what I'm doing and to support students. And so if there are any questions, we have about three minutes, but if there is a question, if you can go ahead and put it in the Q&A and we'll let Tawana address those. And yes, someone asked about the resources citations. You will get a copy. I won't say we'll get a copy on our website. We will post the recording as well as a PDF of the presentation and any other resources that Tawana would like to share. Yes, and I can stay on for maybe another five to 10 minutes if there's any pressing questions. And like I said, I want you all to question and challenge critical thinking, things that you heard me talk about or state. And you all are most welcome. I enjoy sharing the gospel. Let me stop sharing our question melody and there's so much more to learn. Every time I do this, I learn a little bit more myself and through engaging with you all. And so I'm really excited and I see some familiar people who are in attendance and you know, new folks. So thank you. Thank you for coming. But and you don't have to struggle in this alone. You know, like this is not like an isolated activity. I don't want you to think that you have to like, you know, enclose yourself into a dark space by yourself and work on this.  You know, and when I learned about this, you know, five years ago, it was a struggle for me too when I'm still learning different ways to, you know, employ this, but also even, you know, mentally check in myself, you know, and be like, why do I think this way? Like, why are you responding in this in this in this manner? You know, and forcing me to kind of like, even think about things before I say them, you know, and sometimes we think that these things end in just kind of like whether we do decide to do some things also when we don't decide to do something when we decide not to say hi to someone or let them in the face or to even just acknowledge their existence, you know, and there's times where sometimes that's just what people want, you know, is just to know that you see them as a human being and you treat them as such and they don't have to fight for basic human to Tawana to you just made me think about reflection and taking the space and the time to reflect on, you know, if a situation does occur or actually every interaction we have, but taking that time to really reflect on your own reactions or your own behaviors and, you know, maybe what went right, what went wrong, what you could do better, how we can each improve while we're on this on this journey as I call it. So I think the reflection practice is a great tool, we'll say, to really help you to inform and also to, you know, retool yourself if you need to, if something does occur. Yeah. Yes, we this is life on we are works in progress to not put additional pressure on ourselves to be like we should I need to be here, you know, it's I've said this before it's not about just seeing the right thing. It's about doing the right thing, you know, that, that, that action piece that I think a lot of people are, are clamoring for, you know, in this moment. And I appreciate everyone who came. This has been great. I have enjoyed this so much and please my contact information is there. Reach out to me. If you have any additional questions and if you want to provide feedback that I talked to quickly that I see on Tim, I'm just joking. You did great. Fabulous. I, I so appreciate you and your, your time, your expertise and the value you're bringing to, you know, those that are here today, but also those that listen to this later. It's invaluable and can't put a price on it. So I really appreciate you. Um, yes, I didn't have to say, but I don't see any other questions. Um, so thank you again. I see tons of thank yous. Um, and yes, very important to support each other and for our communities. Um, any final, final thoughts before I, I close this out? Well, we're all in this together. Um, and our liberation is tied to the liberation of others. Um, and so I so appreciate, um, everyone who's attended and who are continuing to do this work and involving others in this work as well. Thank you. Fabulous. I think you wrapped it up beautifully. So I'm just going to close with that. And again, thank each of you for attending or listening to this and to our wonderful speaker, Tawana, for being here today. Take care and have a great day, everyone. You too. Bye. Bye-bye.


Hello, Feud Nation. Jonathan Cross here, filling in for Adam on Trailer Trash. The reason I'm on this week is I have a big hand in Hollywood. I come up with a lot of great ideas, and I helped out on Hunger Games Rogue One. I mean, Star Wars Rogue One. We get an opening shot of a Tesla ship flying over Lake Michigan. You can see the rings of Saturn overhead. Here's a new type of stormtrooper. I've dubbed them Terra troopers. They mine from the ground. They're grittier. They're rough for looking individuals. There's a young Jin Osa. I think that's the name they went with at the end. I pitched her name to be Mary Sue. She's going to be perfect at everything. Let's see if that plays out though. I'm not sure.  I don't know what it is about her that turns me on so much. Perhaps it's the Overbyte. Maybe it's the Britishness. I don't know, but she is just sexy AF. A lot of action going on right now. Our team is in the process of stealing plans. We all know this is a sequel to Episode 7. It takes place between 7 and 8 where a Rogue One crew is stealing the plans to a death galaxy. You know, and there you can see the death galaxy in the distance being formed. All right. I'm going to do what I need. This guy right here is all smiles. We actually call them Smiles McGee Unset. He's a fun guy. I'm requesting a cold sun. Here of course to see 3PO. We got a couple upgrades. Changed his color, but he's still got that same wacky personality we love. And here's Goggles. Always has those clear trademark Goggles on. I love him. This is where Smiles McGee really shines. Look at the rest of the crew. They're all kind of giving normal expressions and reactions. And then there's Smiles. He's the equivalent of the over the top YouTuber reactors. This is frustrating. They did the opposite of what I suggested. They put her in a full body gear with just her eyes showing. I wanted her to just be wearing glasses and nothing else. That's really frustrating. His stick is going to be a lightsaber in the final product. I guess they haven't edited that yet. Oh wow. I can't believe they're showing this in the trailer. This is huge. So Smiles McGee is holding Chewbacca's crossbow, his laser crossbow. He took it from Chewbacca's severed corpse after old Bacca was killed in between seven and eight. He's killed off camera very unceremoniously. It's going to be talked more about in the Chewbacca Star Wars spin-off film. Goggles is just not having it right now. This reminds me of Battlefront and how fun it would be to do this. Of course when Battlefront 2 comes out, you'll be able to purchase this as DLC six months after the release window. A very Mad Max-esque shot.  This is a custom skin. It's a new thing that I've introduced into movies. Basically you can watch the movie multiple times purchasing DLC costume packs. So the actors, the vehicles, everything will have a different look the next time you watch the movie. We have about 400 cuts of the film, each containing different outfits and vehicle looks. It's festive, there's a Christmas pack. Now these walkers are too scale and that's important to point out because we did have three cast members die by getting crushed to death. Well there you have it, Rouge One, a Star Wars story. And when you see it and love it, you know who to thank. I got to get back on the horn quick with Hollywood, see if we can get this Jin thing figured out about her outfit. Yeah Terrence, it's Jonathan Gross. Yeah, just got done watching the final Rogue One trailer.   That is the opposite of what I envisioned. I wanted her naked with shades on. It just makes sense, it's more practical, she has better movement control, we all know that women aren't bulky animals, they need to be limber, they need to be flexible in and out of situations.  Jennifer Lawrence would have thrown a fit about being in nothing but shades on. She went blue for a couple X-Men movies, she's gonna do that. I know she's not British, I know British people are better actors, it's in their chemistry, it's in their makeup, but I wanted J-Law.  Alright, I gotta go, I'm still recording, I gotta shut this off.


Hi, I'm Daniel Weisberg, search advocate at Google. And today, I'll talk about how to use Search Console to learn which of your pages have been crawled and indexed by Google and any problems found during that process. Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google Index. Googlebot processes each of the pages it crawls in order to compile a massive index of all the words it sees and their location on each page. When a user enters a query, Google Machines search the index for matching pages and return the results we believe are the most relevant to the user. The index coverage report discussed in this video will give you an overview of all the pages Google indexed or try to index in your website. To learn more about how indexing works, read through our documentation. It will help you get the most out of this video series. Check the links in the description. Before I go into the report, I want to say a few words about when and how often you should check the index coverage status report. If Search Console detects a new index coverage issue on your website, you will get an email. But if an existing issue gets worse, you won't. This means that you don't need to check the coverage report every day, but keep an eye once in a while to make sure that nothing is going from bad to worse. When you open the index coverage report, the first page you see is the summary page. The default view shows indexing errors on your website. But you can click to show valid with warnings, valid, and excluded. In addition, you will find a checkbox to add to the main chart the number of impressions your pages got on Search. Here's what each status means with some examples. Errors prevent pages from being indexed. Pages with errors won't appear in Google search results, which can mean a loss of traffic to your website. For example, you might get an error when you submitted a page containing the no index directive. Additionally, Google might find a server error, or your page might be returning a 404. All these cases would prevent the page from appearing on search results. Issues on pages you submit via site maps are explicitly called out, since they're most likely to be problems we should resolve. Valid with warnings are pages that may or may not be shown on Google search results, depending on the issue. But we think there is a problem that you should look into. For example, Google might find pages that are indexed, though blocked by robots.txt. This is marked as a warning, because we're not sure if you intended to block the page from search results. If you do want to block this page, robots.txt is not the correct mechanism to avoid being indexed. To do so, you should either use the no index directive or request HTTP authentication to see your page. Valid pages have been indexed and can be shown on search results. No need to do anything. Excluded pages were not indexed and won't appear in Google. But either we think that is your intention or we think it's the right thing to do. For example, the page have the no index directive, your choice, or the page is a duplicate of another page, Google's choice. Or the page is simply not found and returns a 404 error. For a more comprehensive list of issues, check our help center. In the summary page, you should start by checking the chart to learn if your valid page's trend is somewhat steady. Some amount of fluctuation is natural. And if you're aware of content being published or removed, you might see that reflected here. Let's take a look at the errors list now, as they are the most pressing issues. The table is sorted by severity and the number of affected pages. So start investigating at the top of the list. If your site doesn't have any errors, you can also follow along with any of the other tabs. Click the top issue to drill down into the issue details. The details page shows an overtime distribution of all pages suffering from this issue and provides a list of examples that you can check more closely. You'll also find a link to learn more about the error in the Search Console Help Center. In addition, you should click an example URL and inspect it. This will show all the details available for a specific page, as explained in the URL inspection episode of the series. Try both the indexed and live versions. What you see in the index coverage report reflects the index data in the URL inspection, and it might differ from the live test result. Watch the URL inspection episode to learn more about it. Once you understand what needs to be fixed, you have two options. Make the required changes yourself or share the details with a developer that can perform cold changes to your website. You can do that by grabbing a link using the Share button. The link grants access only to the current page plus any validation history pages for this issue. It does not grant access to other pages for your resource or enable the shared user to perform any actions on your property. You can revoke the link at any time by disabling sharing for this page. After you or your developer have fixed the error on all your pages, click Validate Fix, and Google will validate your changes. That's the index covered status report. Hopefully now you understand how to read the information, prioritize your fixes, and let Google know when you do it. Don't forget to subscribe to the Google Webmaster's YouTube channel, where we'll be publishing lots of Search Console videos. Stay tuned. Hey, Green. Hey, Blue. What's up? Oh, good. Did you watch the new episode of the Search Console Training series? No, I didn't watch the last one. You want to watch with me? Of course I do. Let's go.


There is someone today in a dark place that needs your light. Guide and take them to his place of hope and grace. Born into a rich musical legacy, singer-producer, multi-instrumentalist Chris Golden, son of the Oak Ridge Boys William Lee Golden, began his music career almost as soon as he could walk. Despite number one hits, entertainer of the year awards, playing for six living presidents and performing around the world, Chris understands who he serves, Jesus. After being approached one night, by whom Chris calls an angel, he was told to quit playing for the ones who paid his check, but the one who gave him his gift. This is his story. This is today's Nashville. This is faith. Chris, it's so good to see you again. It's great to see you again. Welcome to my home. It's amazing. I love this room. There's just so much to see. Tell me about it. Well, this is my house of music. It's not just this room. It's just about every room. When I first moved in here, I had my cousin Dana come up here, and she was going to help me find my style. She said, you know, you don't really have a style. So music is your thing. You've got all these instruments around. You should put them all over the house. So, you know, I made a drum chandelier, I got a grand piano bookcase, you know, guitars on the wall. I tried to put, this is the first guitar I ever had right here. My uncle Rayford got us that guitar, and that's the one I learned to play on. But I wanted him to be able to work and get it off the wall and play it. So I call this the house of music. It's a home, H-O-M-E, house of music and entertainment. That is so wonderful. And I notice all the awards behind you. Yeah, they're just dust collectors. Dust collectors, no. You've had quite a few number one hits. I've been blessed. I have. You have.  And take me back to where it all started, because you come from a very talented family. I do. I come from a long line. You do. I guess I'm about a, you know, it really started with my great-grandfather, Lee Rush Golden. He was a holiness preacher, and he played the fiddle. And he used to play at the Brush Arbors and stuff like that. And he had his own radio show in Bruton, Alabama, and that's where my father got his start as a little boy playing and singing on Grand Daddy Golden's radio show. My dad, you know, joined the Oak Ridge Boys when I was two years old. So we moved to Tennessee in a cattle trailer and brought the family up here. How long ago was it? I was about two and a half or three when we moved to Tennessee. So I basically just went to school in Tennessee, though. And all the rest of my growing up years, I spent on the farm in South Alabama. My mother and father were from the same small town in Bruton, Alabama. And my mama's family was very talented, too. She was one of eight brothers and sisters. They all played and sang, played different instruments. Her daddy played the fiddle as well. And fiddle is something that I never really got the hang of. I can play a lot of different instruments, but I think it skipped the generation. My daughter's plays very well, and she comes out and plays with the Golden son. But anyway, man, it was just something that always came easy for me, you know, music. And you're one of three sons, right? Actually, there's four of us. My mama's baby with my mom and dad had three, and I'm the baby of that. And dad had another son many years later. He's, like, he waited 40 years, and he was going to try to do it. We love your dad, too. Yeah, I do, too. So you came to Nashville. You went to school here? I went to school at Good Pastor Christian School. They put us in school pretty early on. And in Christian school, I started there. I went there most of 12 years. There was a little bit of a period where I lived with my grandparents for a while, and I went to school down there. But when I came back, I went back to Good Pastor Christian School.  So it got pretty heavy toward the end. And I'll probably learn more about the Bible from my grandparents than I did in Christian school, maybe it was because I wasn't paying enough attention at school, and you know, you might wonder some time, but uh... Did you have a personal relationship with Jesus at that time, or was it just...? I did not. Okay. I did not. Because I think a lot of people look at that and say, you know, you've been brought up in Christian school, and, you know. But there's a big difference between that, isn't it? It is. It is. I learned all about it. I learned everything about it, but I never had that personal relationship, and I guess I was probably about 14 years old, and one of the summers that I was with my grandparents, they didn't have a television. All it was to do was play music, and hang out in the kitchen, or pull weeds, and we'd rather play and sing. There was a little church down the road called Golden Memorial, holding his church, that we had a key to. It was built in honor of my great-grandfather. He had 13 children. My granddaddy was one of the identical triplets. It was Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and uh... You know I'm a triplet. Aren't you? Yes, I am. That's one thing we had in common, and I remember that. Okay, I might... So they were identical. They were identical triplets, yes. Did one pass away, or...? Two of them did. My granddaddy was the runt, and he was the only survivor. Really? He was a little bitty man, and my grandmother was a poet and wrote a lot of Christian poems and stuff, and they took us to the revivals all the time. Sometimes they'd start out as a week long, and turn into two and three weeks, and we'd go just about every night. And I can remember, that's when I first went to the altar, I felt that calling to go, as when I was about 14 years old.  From 14, and did you know that you always were going to be a music? I did. It was something that always came easy for me. I never really had to try that hard to...you know, music just came really easy for me. I was able to pick up different instruments and play them by ear. You know, it was something that I feel like was a gift, and it was my gift. And I felt like I'd be turning my back on my calling if I...I knew it was my calling pretty early on. And even during those times where it looked like I'd forgot about God, I always felt His hand on me, and I know that He never forgot me. I was taking the long way around to what, you know, sometimes a man has to take the long way around to come back to what means the most. What was it like growing up with your dad always being on the road with the Oak Ridge boys? I had a great mama. I had a great mother. She was the mother and the father about three, two hundred and fifty days out of the year. You know, when my dad was home, he was usually at the office every day. He managed the group. So whenever he was home, they were still, you know, booking dates and doing radio interviews or stuff like this. And, you know, he was...he worked a lot even when he was home. So... Your mom, we're going to talk about her. She impacted your life tremendously. In a big time way, all of our lives, you know. Everybody she ever met, she impacted. I heard about her. We're going to talk about her when we come back. Okay. Chris, you were talking about, you were about 18, 19 joining the band. You were saved at 14, but you felt like you... I felt like I strayed there. You know, with the church I grew up in, backsliding was a bad deal. You know, that was worse than never being saved in the first place. And I felt like I was saved, but, you know, in the holiness church sometimes I never felt like I was saved enough. And I don't know if that's... Yeah, it was every experience of that, you know. I think a lot of people feel that way.  And it's the relationship with the Lord that sets us free. It is, but I always felt the spirit with me, you know. I always felt that holy spirit on me. And it took me till I was even a little older to realize some of the things I was thinking about in my mind was actually that holy spirit whispering to me, you know, it took me a while to tune into that.  How long were you out there? For about 10 years, probably, out in LA. I was just, that was just a one trip. I mean, we were always on tour. I've never not been on tour since I was, you know, 15 years old. When I was 15, I played with him. You were talking about strain for 10 years. Yeah, I was saying, I was talking about strain for about 10 years. When you sat out there, I was thinking I was about 10 year period of my life. What was going on then?  When did God get ahold of you and say, OK, Chris, it's... I always, maybe it was the thing that part of the deal of me going to the Lord when I was younger, it's like I always almost felt guilty ever, you know, a lot of the time. I'd always had that kind of that shame, you know, of all things that sometimes going on, but I got tired of that. I remember everybody has to have their pigsty moment, right? When you say, man, I'm not living like this anymore. I'm going back to what means the most to me. So I had that same kind of moment. And a lot of it was finding out I was going to be a father. And I thought, man, I wanted to be the kind of example that my grandparents were to me for my children and my grandchildren. And I knew that I had to... When I became a man, I put away childish things, you know. I remembered that verse all my life. I had to learn a lot of verses and that was one of them. So it was time to put away childish things. And I sort of rededicated my life to it. I had an experience that I feel like was a heaven sent. What I feel like was a real angel that come and basically told me, you know, you need to quit playing for the people that are coming to see you and writing your check and play for the one that gave you the gift. Who was that? It was out in Cerritos, California. And it was something I was scared when it happened. I got the, you know, trembles all over. It scared me because I was in such a dark place at that time. Feeling unfulfilled and doubting my calling. I wanted to sing. I'd been a singer before I became a drummer. You know, actually I started drumming when I was a kid, but it was something that I never lost my desire to sing. I felt like I was just doing that to feed my family and kind of hard to jump off a moving train. I was working with the Oak Ridge Boys and Alabama and Restless Heart. And we were on the road all the time. So it's kind of hard to jump off of that. But anyway, I started making gospel music. I went home and sort of changed my trajectory and started singing gospel music and making gospel records. And I've been blessed ever since, you know. So was it an actual person that came and said, hey, stop? Yeah, it was a man. It was a man, yeah. But I don't know his name. I don't know him. I don't know who he was. I looked for him after the show and never saw him again. What did you think about it? It impacted my life so much. At the time that I called my family, I called my dad, I called my brothers, I called my mom, I called my aunt Lynette and said, I think I just saw an angel. And I believe in angels, you know. I believe in, in my heart, I even told him, I asked him twice if he was an angel. I said, are you an angel? He said, I'm just a messenger. I said, well, that's what angels are. That's what angels are. And I said, I don't know it. I may not know until I get to heaven if you were. But I do know who sent you. And it was, the timing was perfect. I love what you said. So I sort of rededicated my life at that time. And I hadn't looked back. I love that you state, that you play for Jesus now. For the one that gave me the gift. The one that gave you the gift. Tell me about some of your songs. I love The One, Your Son. That's fairly new, isn't it? It's a powerful song. It's on my latest album. And it's a song written by Jennifer Lane and Mark Normor. And it was written from the perspective of someone had told them not to bring their son back to church.  And they told him not to come back to church. Well, what better place to have somebody come to? Right. To come. And that was her thing was, well, what if that were your son?  Or are you gonna love him through it till he finds his way? Let's show the love of Jesus. It's the most powerful one that I do in concert. And I wanted a lot of people that they wanna take it home with them. Or it impacts a lot of people. But it's not just about that circumstance. It could also be, they may wear the hair different there. They may be tatted up. And people judge. People judge. I had a lady come up to me at a church in Inglewood, Florida and say, you got off the long hair to be singing gospel music. I said, ma'am, I don't know if you know this, but I'm the cleanest cut guy in my whole family. What'd she say? She didn't know. Did she really want you to say that? I've seen a lot of pictures of Jesus, you know. But God has really changed your life. And we're gonna talk about some of your other songs coming out, what he's doing. And talk a little bit about your mom and her final days and how she was able to spend them here with you. She was. So we're gonna talk about it. She was right here. We're gonna talk about it in a minute. Chris, I love the fact that all your music is about Jesus. And that is your main goal now is to share his message, isn't it? It is. I'm still playing and singing for the one that gave me the gift. Every project that I've done for the last 10 years has been that, every song that I've recorded as a solo artist. Now I am doing some things with my family that is more secular, things with my dad and my brother and my daughter and my kids. But the first record that we recorded as a family, we're all gospel songs. And then it just kind of evolved into other things that we all love to play and sing like you are my sunshine. And you know, the American song book basically and it's all family friendly. It is a little on the secular side for what I've done the past 10 years. But as a solo artist, I play and sing in a lot of churches every week. I travel around the country and I share my story and try to encourage people and lift them up a little bit and let them leave a little lighter than they walked in and try to give them a good dose of hope and light. They light, you know. Will you sing one for me? I will, I will. What do you want to hear? Thank you. Thank you, Lord, for this day. Yeah, this is my, I know what I wake up singing every day. Lord, help me when I'm falling and running out of faith. Stop me when I'm doubting that things will be okay. Show me the way to find my way. Thank you, Lord, for this day. And help me when the war that I can take when I make myself half crazy trying to do it my own way. Give me the words I need to pray. Thank you, Lord, for this day. Catch me when I stumble and blindly lose my way. Help me find the answers to this mess I made. Keep sending those angels to keep me safe. Thank you, Lord, for this day. Thank you, Lord, for this day. Thread of grace. Thank you for this day. Lord, remind me to remember that life is not a race and teach me to surrender and live each day with grace. Show me how to walk on feet of clay. Thank you, Lord, for this day. Catch me when I stumble and blindly lose my way. Help me find the answers to this mess I made. Keep sending those angels to keep me safe. Thank you, Lord, for this day. Thank you, Lord, for this day. Thank you, Lord, for this day. Thread of grace. Thank you. I love it. I love your music, Chris. Every single one.  Thank you, Terry. Next time, maybe it'll be a little later in the day and I'll be warmed up for it. It's wonderful. So did you write this song? I did not. A good friend of mine wrote that and my brother, Ressie, recorded it first on the solo album he did called Sober. And I always loved it and he wasn't doing it live and he said, you know, I got two or three of these songs, I think it'd be good for you and it was a guy that I had known. His brother, only two piano lessons I ever had were from a guy named Costow Davis. His brother, Steve, wrote that but he wrote a big hit called Take Time to Know We're Back in the 60s and when he was just a kid, he was like 16, 17 years old but he had a re-awakening of his spiritual life and he wrote some gospel songs and I recorded a couple of them and he passed away just this past year but whenever he saw me do that on the hook of the show and he told me, he said, I've never liked anybody singing any of my other songs. He said, but it sounds like he wrote it. It does, it does.  You're also in a band with them. I am. The Golden's. Yes. And doing an album on my daughter right now is somewhere between Bluegrass and Broadway. If you can imagine that but she's a great singer and plays fiddle and I'm doing another album with her right now and also my son, Elijah, he's up at Brown University but he's writing songs. We're gonna be recording some before he goes back this year. My middle child is also super talented. She's a great singer and usually steals the show. So that's a whole another generation, you know? So that's fine. They're fifth generation players and singers. Well, we only have a few minutes left. I wanna talk about your mom and how you spent the last few months with her. Yeah, it was during the pandemic. We found out early on during the pandemic that she had pancreatic cancer. It was inoperable. We brought her to Tennessee for second opinion. She'd been sick and we found out that was going on and for where her treatments were, it was a long way from her house. She still lived in that same small town in Brewton, Alabama. Her brothers and sisters, you know, everybody was sequestered at home.  And so she came here to live with me for the last 10 and a half months. So it was for the first time since I was 15 years old, I didn't have one date in the book and we would set up in this living room every week and I was doing those Facebook lives and playing for people. You know, that's like, when they said music is non-essential, it's like then church is non-essential. Both of those hit me hard because I play music in churches. So it was a double whammy for me. But if they'd know anything about our family, it's like air and water. We gotta have music. So we set up here in the living room and I played and sang a lot. I did a Facebook live every weekend for a year and she was my audience. And she would clap and she would request songs and they would do that and we got to be with her. My brother had come from overseas and he was able to be with her too. We were all just kind of hung out here in this living room a lot. And I wouldn't take anything for that last time we got to spend together. She was a big part of my spiritual journey too because I know she always prayed for me and prayed. She was loved by a lot of people. She was, she was indeed. Chris, thank you so much. What an honor and blessing to sit down with you again. Terry, I appreciate you taking the time.  Well, I hopefully we're shining the light. You are shining the light, trust me. That's what we're gonna keep trying to do. Chris, thank you. As long as I have breath, I'll keep singing for her. And trying to make a difference, you know, because it's not just for doing it for other people. The closest I ever feel to God is when I'm playing music and singing songs to him and about him. That's when I feel closest and that makes me want to sing all day long. Chris, thank you. Thank you, Terry. My friends, my prayer for you today is to give the Lord the thanks for all your blessings. This is today's Nashville. This is faith. Cornerstone Television wishes to thank all our faithful viewers whose consistent prayers and financial support have made this program possible.