Presentation 52
Presented on: Saturday, December 26, 2015
Presented by: Roger Weir
We come to the final presentation in this year of preparation. And to close out of an era of presentations on a weekly basis. One of the qualities. That the 20th century was able to. Gift us with. Are some of the most major artists of human civilization. And many of the basic geniuses are still unsung. The greatest composer of the 20th century. Has no books on him. Not a single one. Even though he lived to be over 90 and his. Musical works run to more than 400 compositions. Alan Havana's. Who was the special pride of Seattle, Washington and. Patronized by those kinds of people that founded Boeing and Microsoft. Et cetera. Very avant garde city. Among the. Visual artist genius. There were a pair of women, Georgia O'Keeffe and the woman I'm going to talk about for just a little bit here. And while Georgia has become literally an icon of art. By our time now. The other is yet to be discovered. And her name was Sonja Delaney. In 1967. She, like Georgia O'Keeffe, lived into her nineties. George lived to be 99 and Sonia lived to be 94. And they worked right up until the last day of their lives. Sandra was born in 1885. And she. Designed a special car when she was in her eighties. And this was the. French Italian sports car that she designed. 1967. She was always known by the last name of her distinguished husband, also an artist, Robert Delaney. But Sonja was by far the major genius. Her maiden name was t e r k Turk. She was of Ukrainian birth. Which at that time was the part of Mother Russia. But when she was five and. Semi orphaned. She was sent to her maternal uncle who was very prosperous. We lived in St Petersburg. And so from age five until her college, she grew up in St Petersburg and took summer vacations as the wealthy avant garde of St Petersburg did. They often went to Finland for their summer vacations, and so she did two. And became enamored with the quality of. The Finnish face and her very early portraits of. The Finnish. Women and Finnish men show a kind of a sternness which they inclement weather. And the historical circumstances have bred into the Finns. So she would have been in Finland about the time that Sebelius was becoming one of the world's great composers in Finland. And also a time at which St Petersburg was the cultural center of Russia, a European centre on the equal of Paris, London, Berlin. Florence. She had a quality to her, which was to be able to take something that was ostensibly stern, like an automobile or the Finnish determination. The motto in Finland is a CSU. In Finnish and it means determined. To live. And one reason why Finland was able to break away from Mother Russia was that the outnumbered Finnish soldiers simply did not give up. They never give up. And so it was wiser. The czars had learned and passed on to the Bolsheviks that you can take a part of their land, but you better leave them enough land so that they will agree to not encroach, to regain their property. And so the Kerala Peninsula was divided and the eastern part became part of Russia and is still but still has a Finnish tone. And Finland reaches from the top of the Baltic where Helsinki is, so that it has a Baltic civilization, quality of Sweden and southern Norway and Denmark, northern Germany, parts of Poland, Lithuania. Latvia. Estonia. St Petersburg. And so that Baltic quality is a northern Mediterranean. It's a sea that has many variants of civilization very close by. And so it has a quality of interchange and exchange rather than domination. In large part, the Mediterranean took longer to settle into that sort of situation and eventually settle for a polarization. An Islamic Maghreb along the African coast and a Christian empire along the northern coast. For Sonia Delany. Her. Immediate. Penetration into the highest qualities of civilization in art was the publication in 1913 of a little art project that grew into something massive. And the Reproduction, published by the Beinecke Rare Book Room of Yale University Library, put this facsimile out for its centenary about 2013. And the facsimile, if you can find copies, goes for more than 1000 a copy now. The originals are in rare book rooms or private collections of the very wealthy and not available. One of the qualities of this little book, and this is a small version of it, is that it unfolds. And is almost seven feet long. And when it is opened, it looks like this. It has her huge scroll of avant garde modern art, which she helped create. She was original. She wasn't a cubist. She was somnium. And on the left is the long poem by an art artist poet. He was kind of an outlaw, and he chose a pen name, which means. The embers of ashes. Bless Sandra's and his long poem is about a journey across. On the Trans-Siberian Railway, which had just been finished at that time and went from St Petersburg all the way to the far Pacific coast. Of the Russian Soviet empire. They. We're stopped in 1905 by the Japanese who went to war, and the Japanese Russian war largely was won by the Japanese, and that stopped the Russian Empire. About where Vladivostok is now. And the farthest reach of that in the Pacific Ocean is the island of Sakhalin, which in very ancient times was neither Russian nor Japanese, but was in fact settled thousands and thousands of years before. By the I knew people and the I knew people are pre civilization white heavily haired the I knew men have enormous beards and long hair and the I knew women are very rugged in fact the I knew are very similar to the Finns. They have a language like Finnish that is not a part of the Indo-European family of languages because those people were there before there was an Indo European family language group. This journey from St Petersburg to the frontier of the I knew and the FA thousands and thousands of miles away was able to be traversed on the Trans-Siberian Railway. And Blaise Sandra's poem is about the first poet to take that trip and to write about the incredible courage that it took to live on the scale that was now opened up. And his companion was a very small, a petite prostitute named John Johanna Jane. And the poem is entitled La Prose du Trans-Siberian et la Petite jeune de France. And so. This is Blaise Sanders poem, and this is not a petite prostitute, but Sonya Delany, whose art reshapes the way in which the poem is read. And when they are stretched out, it's almost seven feet. It's actually six feet seven inches. And Sandra's pride fully figured out that if you took all of the copies of the addition of the poem, they would be as tall as the Eiffel Tower. And what suggested it to him was that at the bottom of Sonja's composition is a abstract Eiffel Tower in red. Her husband, Robert, did a whole series of art presentations, paintings and other things, sculptures and so forth on the Eiffel Tower about the time that she was making this immense contribution. But what is significant for civilization is that Sonja Delany's long scroll. Has a parallel in Zen Buddhism in Japan's greatest artist, on a par with Rembrandt and European art. And his name was Sasha. This is a great reproduction of a self portrait of Sasha. And Sasha was a renaissance man in every. Every estimation. Even as a child. He was drawing. And eventually. He was realized that he was not going to be a business man. He was not going to be a part of the Shogun's entourage. So the only place to actually put him was in a monastery, a Zen monastery in Japan. And. He was born about 1420 and lived to be 87 into the 1500s. So he is a contemporary with the Italian Renaissance in Florence. His Chinese contemporary on the massive mainland of China was one of the figures that we talked about last week. Wang Yang Ming Ming in Chinese. Pronounced Meng is the word and the character for it of brilliant. Not just bright but brilliant because it's person dynamic. And so the Ming Dynasty is the Chinese epitome of the person regaining the brilliance of their lives, their persons, and the art, which now extends charismatically to create a history that has a continuity with the great past, reborn like a renaissance and pushed forward and beyond and out into a future where the energy of the continuity of the new past and the presence. Exploring the future makes of time, a continuity of a dynamic. And that that dynamic of time energy without measurement because that continuity is infinite. Its only source can be zero. A field of zero not to 0.0 points vanish. That's what they do. If you go back to perfect zero, you lose the ability to measure it. It goes not off the graph. It doesn't show on the graph. So if you open his long scroll one way, it's completely blank. It's completely, as they say in Zen. The Sanskrit original word is Zenyatta, meaning empty. Mu in Japanese. Is an emptiness. That has a fertility to emerge into form. And so in session's time the conspicuous co on. The riddle saying. That stymies any attempt for measurement or judgment or calibration. By the mind in whatever contortion and angle and take whatever. Refines itself and vanishes. So the CO on move is emptiness is form. Form is emptiness. That complementarity of zero and infinity of continuity and not just invisible. But so called nonexistent. Is the complementarity of the real. Hence a true mindfulness. Vanishes. And creatively can reappear. Who knows? Sessions long scroll opened the other way gives a journey that emerges out of the zero field, out of the emptiness, out of the sonata, into the Sanskrit word for such richness. Is tacit to. When to. Vanishes, that vanishing is no longer called Zenyatta. That vanishing is called in Sanskrit. Gotta, gotta. Gotcha is not distinguishable in any way. From Sundiata. But whereas Zenyatta is zero, God is infinite. So the classic name for the historical Buddha, who was able to be the first one to make that yogic journey all the way through to God, to his testator was God. And so they called him to thank God. And that's what he called himself, one whose subtleness is gone. And yet speaks before you currently. So then. Reached an epitome. When it came into contact with the Buddhism of the Mahayana, going through the vastness of Central Asia, not like a Trans-Siberian Railway, but like an incredible billowing of genius of many aspects of the Mahayana that eventually would gather into clusters of storms of genius, which had all the scintillation of jewels. Jeweled people. Jewels of this journey. And the Sanskrit word for that jewel diamond is Vajra, Vajra IANA. At the time that the Vajrayana was concentrating itself in Tibet as a part of the massiveness of the complexity of what we would call Chinese civilization. In China proper. There was the beginning of Zen. Where. The not the Vajrayana specifically, but the whole Mahayana Vajra Buddhist. Coming upon the primordial city of China was. Surprised. To paraphrase Milton's phrase, surprised by joy. And one critic wrote a humorous book on that. And Berkeley in 1960s, and he called it Surprised by by Sin. But the Chinese then was born out of the surprise by the real. And the genius there was winning an illiterate woodcutter. Raised by just his mother. And in order to support the the two of them, he would go out and cut wood and scavenge and bring it in and they would sell it for a little bit and get rice. When he got to be a young man, he was no longer able to be supported even by his old mother. And he was orphaned. And he went in to be a servant in a monastery. To literally be the dishwasher. Was the monastery where the fifth Chinese patriarch of Zen Buddhism, Ma Su and Shu, who had been grooming a special young monk to be the sixth patriarch. And he was the darling of every aspect in every one. So when it came time to pass the lineage. Which consisted of matzos bowl. It goes all the way back as a resonance to the Buddha. Showing that what he owned and was using was the bowl to collect the alms food on a daily basis and the robe to clothe himself and a small needle that's kept in the lapel of the robe because it is not a robe that you buy or make. It is made out of scraps of thrown away fabric in the spring cleaning of villages, and you would pick out scraps. And so your own quilted calico robe fresh every spring. So you had your needle, your robe and your bowl, and that's all you had. You ate with fingers. Barefoot. When it came time for the fifth patriarch to pass on to that star who was supposed to show that he had the mindfulness to be empty and yet here wrote his CO on. And his Chinese characters, and it was posted pretty late in the evening night, and everyone had gone to sleep and expected to wake up and find the new sixth patriarch. And the last person's. After all, the monks had gone to sleep. Where the fifth patriarch Matsu in deep meditation, he had read his neophytes script and it was the brilliantly mirror mind clear. Shows only the dust collecting from the air audit. Queen egg. Still working in the kitchen. Noticed it. By that time learned to read. And so wrote his little subscript to it. What? Mirror. What mind? What does. So Matsu came upon him and read it. Invited him to his room, gave him the bowl, the needle and the robe, and told them to get out of town. He said, Everyone is going to be jealous of you. You're a nobody. You don't have any background, no education, no position, nothing. And that is what John Zen is not about. Not even is. You are the sixth patriarch. All of that took place at the founding of the Tang Dynasty, which eventually rotated into the Son dynasty and then was decimated by the Mongols, Genghis Khan and his descendants who just took over everything. They went as far as France before they were stopped. And they took over all of China, of course. And so the Yuan dynasty was the Mongol dynasty and Genghis Khan down several generations became Kublai Khan, who was the first to reach out with this kind of Mongol grandeur and contacted Europe to the extent that in Venice, the Polo Brothers decided that they would take this Trans-Siberian caravan and go to the great Con in China and open up a trade route, let's do some business. And so Marco Polo and his uncle and so forth went. All of that became superseded by the rediscovery. In the renaissance of China exactly at the time of the Renaissance in Europe, and establish the Ming Dynasty, where young Wang young man was the genius of that. And since you came from Japan, Exactly. At that time with his genius and brought the creme de la creme of the Renaissance into Japan and made the long scroll so that one either way could have an understanding. And it was Sonja Delany in her great book. The little version of Celsius Long Scroll is available on the web. Amazon. You can buy it for, I don't know, 20 bucks less. You cannot buy Sonja's work. It's just not available. But you can you can find copies of parts of it and you can go to Wikipedia. Lapras do Trans-Siberian at De la Petite Jan de France is on the website and you'll find all kinds of things. And after a break, we'll come back and we'll see that the Zen. Of great women. Artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Sonia Delany are like a victory of the comprehensiveness that it isn't the arguments based on polarity, but it is the realization that comes out of simultaneity, which Sonia Delany was the founding genius of. Let's take a little break. Let's come back to. This final continuity in presentation. The theme title for 2015 was The Future and the New Past. The future is polarized and split by a present now, which rhymes with Oh. Because that polarity. Dices up. But presence anciently primordial, really allows for a continuity of time. Which becomes conspicuous in Einstein and the theory of relativity especially. His beginning, written in spare moments. In the coffee shops after working at the patent office in Bern, Switzerland. At the time that Paul Clay was growing up there. 1905. This is first relativity excursion and then, of course, later. 1921. The Great Theory of Relativity. The quality of relativity. Einstein. Einstein's genius. Was really not in mathematics. He wasn't a very good mathematics student. But he was able to enter into the field of vision. Which is infinite. Conscious. But it's consciousness. It's tacit to. Can be gone and still yet really be in presence. This is a mystery, of course. Cannot be measured or explained. It isn't something to be understood. It's nothing. To be accessed. Occasionally. And then. With practice and learning in continuity, so that time in its continuity has a cosmic presence that transcends time and space. And has many mysteries. Like Georgia O'Keeffe living into her nineties and Sonia Delaney living into her nineties. The great Zen master in the 20th century lived into his nineties. Suzuki is born in 1870. He lived until 1966. I remember towards the end of his days, he spent a lot of time one summer in the mid 1960s in the community of outlaw scholarly persons in Cuernavaca, Mexico, the community that the star of that was the psychiatrist, Erich Fromm. And also there was the great educator. Jean Suzuki also came there. About the time I began in graduate school and teaching at San Francisco State. About 1965. Ivan Ilyich, the great educator. Erich Fromm, the great psychiatrist. Suzuki, the impeccably, immensely brilliant Zen master. He wrote not only in Japanese. He could write in Chinese. He could read Sanskrit. But he was especially refined and English. Even as a young man. As a boy. And Suzuki. This is a rare photograph of Suzuki with his wife. She was English. Beatrice. Beatrice Lane. She loved cats. Her little cat or kitten. And. Yes. Real Zen masters, Mary and. She wrote a book on Buddhism on her own. She was really extraordinary, like Sonia Delany, like Georgia O'Keeffe, etc., etc., etc., etc.. Suzuki. Had a Zen master who had passed on and left a new Zen master. His name was Soy Shaku. Soy and Shaku. Got invited to Chicago in 1893. They were going to hold did hold famously held a World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, downtown Chicago, The Loop. In 1993 for the centenary, they held a Second World Parliament of Religions, and that was not even a pale echo of the genius before. But in 1893, Chicago was really dynamic. The young Frank Lloyd Wright was already working with Louis Sullivan to make a completely new architecture. And from India came the Swami Vivekananda, bringing the first real glimpse of Vedic wisdom. And Vedanta and Chauhan Shaku was to present Zen Buddhism. But in order to do this, he needed to be able to have an English translation of what he was going to say. And so it was up to the novice Suzuki to turn his Zen presentation into English. And it was impeccable, such that the Chicago cognoscenti of which they were really sophisticated by that time, recognized that it isn't the so called Zen master. It says young man. And so one of the head honchos in writing, publishing, and he called CARAS, he took a chance and he said to the Zen master, I would like to have your monk translator come and work with me here in Chicago. And when they were back in Kyoto, of course, the Zen master playing Zen master said to Suzuki, as Matsu had said to you, We think it's a waste of your time and anyone's time unless you first have your experience of satori, of disappearing into the emptiness. So you have to do this before you can go. And by the way, if you don't do this and the time comes for the ship to leave and you don't do this, you will have to commit. Harry Carey. Supercool. Couldn't do it. And the young. That is is okay. Realized it was I think he was 22 years old. 21. 22 years old. So he gave up in the zendo. He just relaxed and to. When he came out of the zendo, he was looking and realized that all the trees and buildings were transparent to him. And he looked down at his own self, this robe, and he was transparent too. So he was let go by a greatly surprised Zen master that. He hadn't really understood that at all. And. Here it was in the flesh. English, speaking on a par with Japanese speaking, etc.. The genius. So the first thing that Paul Harris had to do was not to translate Japanese, but he found out that he was very capable in Chinese. And Paul Harris wanted to do an English translation of Lao Tzu. And so he asked if the kid can you can you help me make a translation of Lao Tzu into English? And so a very capable 20 some year old Suzuki took the classic Chinese text. Character by character, by character by character. The Daodejing Dirk Jing is 5540 characters. The original from Lao, his name means old master. His real family were the Lees. Li like Lippo. Like Lee Cheng Min, who was the founder of the Tang Dynasty and so forth. That family, the Lees. There's still a very great family in China. A Chinese girlfriend who was of that family from Hong Kong. Ten bedroom house, etc.. The air was his real name. The arrangement of those Chinese characters originally had no punctuation whatsoever. It's what I used to call a cascade. It was a waterfall of written language. And the only way that one could read it out loud, give it voice, lift it off the page, lift it off the written characters into spoken voice Language was to work in breathing breath. Which on that level is a five part, a quintessential yoga. Not only the polarity of inhale, exhale, but the pairing of inhaling with a pause, however small. The split picosecond Before you breathe out, the inhaling ceases to be in. There is a pause, however minuscule it is. Then the breathing out, which also has a pause, however. On that level. It's sometimes attosecond, which is the atomic scale. So that breathing breath prana is a four cylinder dynamic. That's what keeps the engine of time of energy going as four cylinders, just like space time. But there is a quintessential fifth like the thumb. That fifth. Is that the only way that that pair of pairs has a continuity that's alive as well as extant, is that it has a third, a thrice greatest quality. It has someone something some. Such ness that breathes in logic and science. It's called an operator in mathematics. In order to have an analytic, you have to have an operator in the equation. Yes, there are equations, there are the qualities, but there are always in a kind of a symmetry of symmetries. And there relativity is actually a continuity. Einstein was at home in that even as young man also born in the 1870s like TS is. That quality of that quintessential that fifth makes of the frame a star. Five. So that one of the ancient symbols of that quintessential is the star made by the unbroken continuity of the line going into the dimensions of a symbol. And in order to understand the constellations of the stars in very ancient times in Central Asia. The caravan routes traveled by night, not by day, because by day there were thousands of miles of steppe land. It was all the same, the same from Samarkand, all the way to that mountain range that splits them off from the Gobi Desert, etc.. So they learned to travel by having an operator that was at home under the stars. So that that Central Asian wisdom, whenever encountered wisdom of the real, was able in its continuity to not just absorb it or weave it in. But to be with it, to be real with it. So Suzuki is a great translation of the Tao Te Ching. Served me at a time where I was presented with an opportunity and a challenge to. Translate something that had been ineptly tried by scholars for some while, and that was to make a translation of the original writings at the original language of Indo European language of Avesta. To make a translation of Zarathustra, his original poetic writings into English, into actually American. And it took more than a decade to do and teach. Suzuki is taking each Chinese character, taking each Investec word, and making a frame of possible ways to express that word, but to distill it's an alchemical term out of that frame of possibles. The operator that allowed the energy of the continuity to be real in time and expression. And it reads somewhat like this just a few lines. Zarathustra His original writings were in hyacinths that were like poems. They were like hymns. They were like odes. And the notes were collected and they were collected so that there were seven yarns that made a beginning Gotha. There were two medium paired polarity goths of four Yassin's each seven, four, four and an eight in a single goth. That concludes the frame of the four gospels. The 16 Yassin's. The pair of eights 16 The moment of Thought The cheetahs at the Buddha in his below Attosecond below atomic realization that a moment of thought in space time has 16 parts, but only eight of them are discursive. The other eight are always. I used to call it a trill. They're always in the flow. So that that moment of thought always has the breath pausing real within it. If you can use language spoken and then eventually written to have the silences as punctuation in the breathing of the speaking or the writing so that the fresh air can just be real. Here's how they beginnings of. That 16 years of Zarathustra because Chaitra here is Chaitra is a the the Prince of Manly patience. Good cause the chosen gift most glorified. Dedicate effective worship as Asha's inner step. Asha is the feminine way in which order comes into being and is able to maintain itself in the real in the current, in the continuity. To be fertile, to be participatory. To be simultaneous. Good question. The chosen gift. Most glorified. Dedicate. Effective worship as ashes inner step inward deeds. Mazda's best place immersion Mazda is the the radiant the radiance. Which is that presence. These are Mazda's primary goals. Ahura Asha. And our army. D All of these are helper spirits that are feminine. Asha for order a as. The masculine Lord that serves and pairs with and is with lives with the feminine Mazda. Specializing in sharing presents, and thus Asha and our Magi. The spirit of love. The Holy Spirit of love that takes the feminine ordering of life into the feminine appreciation of love. And this is what brings over it to be real in life and love. Don't ask. These are mazda's primal Ahura Asha and our maty teaching. Glad Asra the directions of human bestowing salvation, though human is the spirit of good mind. It is human, is masculine, softer is masculine, or her as masculine, but masculine here as the way in which Mazda presents is shareable. The presentation of Sasha's long scroll done in actually printed in Vermont, Rutland, Vermont, not far from where John Dewey was born. The back cover is just the raw wood. It's the blank, which is not blank. It's not even empty. It's open because presents has all all of its continuity is in openness, not measurable. Thank goodness. So Sasha's most famous Japanese print. Aside from the journey of the long scroll is his portrait of Bodhidharma, who became the first Zen master in China and the 28th Zen master from India and Bodhidharma. After 28 Zen masters from the Buddha on first pass to Maha Cassiopeia, who was at one time a black magician who tried to terrify the nascent Buddha, beginning to teach, who had come into his yoga camp with 500 black magician yogis. And they specialized in terrorizing anyone who came in to be an interloper. And Cassiopeia. Motion to the Buddha. You can sleep here in my little hut. And then tried to terrify him with nightmares all night long. Huge snakes and all of this kind of stuff. And in the dawn, gossip and all the black yogic monk savant baddies were shocked to find the young Buddha emerging not only calm and clear. But utterly astoundingly real. He had dispersed the entire phony atmosphere. And all that was left was the radiance of the presence. And so as was done in ancient India, they all became followers of the Buddha right then and there. And because Yapa became Maha Kashyap, he was the first one to take Zen in India from the Buddha's presence. And so Bodhidharma was the 28th, and he was the first in China, and he was the sixth. And when they returned all of that lineage, that journey, so that they're not only was there a seventh patriarch, but anyone at any time of any gender, of any background. That entered presents in a shared way. They all were seventh patriarchs. This is the way in which Wenig began his his sutra. It's called the platform Sutras. Like a computer platform. It's it's the it's the source out of which all apps and guides and programs are able to be expressive. This, by the way, is winning. This is his actual body. This is a photograph made in 1937 by Professor Joseph Needham from Cambridge, the master of Keys and Glenville College Cambridge, who organized and wrote the great 20 volumes of Science and Civilization in China. Tens of thousands of pages. He took this photograph because Queen Egg's body, he petrified like you, petrified wood. He petrified his body into what one would colloquially just say is anthracite coal. But it preserved him so that one could see he was it was this guy. Quite real, quite historical, because history is quite real in presence. The master who ascended the high seat at the lecture hall of Typhon Temple and expounded the dharma of the great perfection. Over 10,000 monks, nuns, lay followers, officials, etc. gathered to hear him. The master who said, Good friends, purify your minds and concentrate on the dharma of the great perfection of wisdom. The Master stopped speaking and quieted his own mind, and that presence suffused. Emptiness of the real. Then after a good while, he said, Good friends listen quietly. My father was originally an official at Fon Young. He was dismissed from his post and banished as a commoner to Chin Chow in London. While I still was a child, my father died. My old mother and I, a solitary child, moved. And from there, the story that has been told unfolds for the first time. With the genius of. Sonja Delaney. The first person to understand the profound ness of Sonia Delany in her ability to take a paired continuity with expressivity and put them together almost as if a space based time was operative was the greatest French philosophic genius of that day, of the 20th century of perhaps ever. Henri Bergson And in 1922, he wrote the fourth of his great philosophic books, duration and simultaneity, because all of Sonia Delaney's work was on simultaneity. Chapter two is on complete relativity concerning the reciprocity of motion relativity no longer unilateral, but bi lateral inter inter ference of this first hypothesis, with the second ensuing misunderstandings relative and absolute motion propagation and conveyance systems of reference all the way from Descartes to Einstein. Chapter three. Following it is concerning the nature of time and just to outline succession and consciousness origin of the idea of a universal time, real duration and measurable time concerning the immediately perceived simultaneity, simultaneity of flow and of the instant concerning the simultaneity indicated by clocks unfolding, time unfolding time and the fourth dimension and how to recognize real time and Sonja Delany how to take that recognition into the real into life love learning. As a gift. Thank you.