WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.080 align:middle line:90% 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:07.840 align:middle line:84% There's a great documentary on the Reverend Al Green. 00:00:07.840 --> 00:00:11.740 align:middle line:90% Anybody ever see it here? 00:00:11.740 --> 00:00:13.840 align:middle line:84% We should all get it from Netflix this week. 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:16.000 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.245 align:middle line:84% There's this amazing scene where Al Green-- 00:00:19.245 --> 00:00:21.370 align:middle line:84% you know, he had a conversion experience, you know? 00:00:21.370 --> 00:00:24.070 align:middle line:90% He was, you know, singing. 00:00:24.070 --> 00:00:26.640 align:middle line:84% Did you see Barack Obama sing with Al Green? 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:27.340 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:27.340 --> 00:00:28.390 align:middle line:90% Wasn't that adorable? 00:00:28.390 --> 00:00:30.040 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:30.040 --> 00:00:31.570 align:middle line:84% That's the guy we elected, right? 00:00:31.570 --> 00:00:33.546 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:33.546 --> 00:00:36.020 align:middle line:90% 00:00:36.020 --> 00:00:39.020 align:middle line:84% There's an amazing scene where Al Green is preaching 00:00:39.020 --> 00:00:40.970 align:middle line:84% in his church, and he's telling the story 00:00:40.970 --> 00:00:44.800 align:middle line:84% about the woman who thinks, if I just 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:48.138 align:middle line:84% touch the hem of his garment, and she thinks, 00:00:48.138 --> 00:00:49.180 align:middle line:90% you know, I'll be healed. 00:00:49.180 --> 00:00:51.610 align:middle line:84% And she touches-- she grabs ahold 00:00:51.610 --> 00:00:56.650 align:middle line:84% of just the edge of Jesus's tunic, 00:00:56.650 --> 00:01:00.320 align:middle line:84% and he says "somebody touched me." 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:05.410 align:middle line:84% And, but he's Al Green, right, so he goes, "somebody-- 00:01:05.410 --> 00:01:06.880 align:middle line:90% I mean, somebody touched me." 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:08.153 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:08.153 --> 00:01:10.570 align:middle line:84% And then he does it again, and again, and then pretty soon 00:01:10.570 --> 00:01:11.528 align:middle line:90% he's singing it, right? 00:01:11.528 --> 00:01:12.610 align:middle line:90% Somebody touched me! 00:01:12.610 --> 00:01:14.200 align:middle line:90% And it's so amazing. 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:15.880 align:middle line:84% It's such an amazing, amazing thing. 00:01:15.880 --> 00:01:17.950 align:middle line:90% I can't-- wow. 00:01:17.950 --> 00:01:20.643 align:middle line:84% If you want to just be lifted up, go go watch this thing. 00:01:20.643 --> 00:01:21.310 align:middle line:90% I'm telling you. 00:01:21.310 --> 00:01:24.313 align:middle line:90% 00:01:24.313 --> 00:01:25.980 align:middle line:84% Here's a poem called, "After the Movie." 00:01:25.980 --> 00:01:28.050 align:middle line:84% It really should be called "After the Divorce." 00:01:28.050 --> 00:01:29.970 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:29.970 --> 00:01:30.840 align:middle line:90% OK? 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:32.268 align:middle line:90% I think I mis-titled it. 00:01:32.268 --> 00:01:34.560 align:middle line:84% It really needs to be called that, "After the Divorce." 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:36.165 align:middle line:90% And anybody here relate to this? 00:01:36.165 --> 00:01:37.110 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:37.110 --> 00:01:37.870 align:middle line:90% Raise your hands. 00:01:37.870 --> 00:01:38.370 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:38.370 --> 00:01:41.760 align:middle line:90% "After the Divorce." 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:44.820 align:middle line:84% The movie was The Talented Mr, Ripley. 00:01:44.820 --> 00:01:45.870 align:middle line:90% Remember? 00:01:45.870 --> 00:01:48.585 align:middle line:90% Early Matt Damon. 00:01:48.585 --> 00:01:50.040 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:51.030 align:middle line:90% So there's that. 00:01:51.030 --> 00:01:53.580 align:middle line:84% And there's a reference to Matt Meister Eckhart, 00:01:53.580 --> 00:01:57.840 align:middle line:84% the great 14th century theologian, a reference 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:01.080 align:middle line:84% to the great 20th century philosopher, theologian, 00:02:01.080 --> 00:02:06.225 align:middle line:84% Simone Weil, and a reference to Janis Joplin. 00:02:06.225 --> 00:02:08.885 align:middle line:90% 00:02:08.885 --> 00:02:12.390 align:middle line:84% "My friend Michael and I are walking home 00:02:12.390 --> 00:02:15.150 align:middle line:90% arguing about the movie. 00:02:15.150 --> 00:02:19.560 align:middle line:84% He says that he believes a person can 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:26.010 align:middle line:84% love someone and still be able to murder that person. 00:02:26.010 --> 00:02:27.540 align:middle line:90% I say, 'no. 00:02:27.540 --> 00:02:28.470 align:middle line:90% That's not love.' " 00:02:28.470 --> 00:02:30.438 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:30.438 --> 00:02:34.440 align:middle line:90% " 'That's attachment.' 00:02:34.440 --> 00:02:35.190 align:middle line:90% Michael says, 'no. 00:02:35.190 --> 00:02:36.360 align:middle line:90% That's love. 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:40.170 align:middle line:84% You can love someone, then come to a day when you're forced 00:02:40.170 --> 00:02:45.880 align:middle line:84% to think, it's him or me, think me, and kill him.' " 00:02:45.880 --> 00:02:46.380 align:middle line:90% Oh my god. 00:02:46.380 --> 00:02:50.100 align:middle line:84% " I say, 'then it's not love anymore.' 00:02:50.100 --> 00:02:55.470 align:middle line:84% Michael says, 'it was love up 'til then, though.' 00:02:55.470 --> 00:02:59.280 align:middle line:84% I say, 'maybe we mean different things by the same word.' 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:01.830 align:middle line:84% Michael says, 'humans are complicated. 00:03:01.830 --> 00:03:06.030 align:middle line:84% Love can exist even in the murderous heart.' 00:03:06.030 --> 00:03:11.190 align:middle line:84% I say that what he might mean by love is desire. 00:03:11.190 --> 00:03:14.910 align:middle line:90% 'Love is not a feeling,' I say. 00:03:14.910 --> 00:03:17.970 align:middle line:84% And Michael says, 'then what is it?' 00:03:17.970 --> 00:03:22.290 align:middle line:84% We're walking along West 16th Street, a clear, unclouded 00:03:22.290 --> 00:03:25.890 align:middle line:84% night, and I hear my voice repeating what 00:03:25.890 --> 00:03:28.230 align:middle line:90% I used to say to my husband-- 00:03:28.230 --> 00:03:36.570 align:middle line:84% 'love is action,' I used to say, and say, and say to him. 00:03:36.570 --> 00:03:41.250 align:middle line:84% Simone Weil says that when you really love, 00:03:41.250 --> 00:03:46.630 align:middle line:84% you are able to look at someone you want to eat and not eat 00:03:46.630 --> 00:03:47.130 align:middle line:90% them." 00:03:47.130 --> 00:03:48.882 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:48.882 --> 00:03:50.196 align:middle line:90% 00:03:50.196 --> 00:03:53.280 align:middle line:84% "Janis Joplin says, 'take another little piece 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.850 align:middle line:90% of my heart right now.' 00:03:56.850 --> 00:04:02.400 align:middle line:84% Meister Eckhart says that as long as we love any image, 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:07.050 align:middle line:84% we are doomed to live in purgatory. 00:04:07.050 --> 00:04:09.870 align:middle line:84% Michael and I stand on the corner of 6th Avenue, 00:04:09.870 --> 00:04:11.010 align:middle line:90% saying good night. 00:04:11.010 --> 00:04:14.400 align:middle line:84% I can't drink enough of the tangerine spritzer 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:15.690 align:middle line:90% I've just bought. 00:04:15.690 --> 00:04:19.620 align:middle line:84% Again and again, I bring the cold can to my mouth 00:04:19.620 --> 00:04:24.000 align:middle line:84% and suck the stuff from the hole the flip-top made. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:25.500 align:middle line:90% 'What are you doing tomorrow?' 00:04:25.500 --> 00:04:27.240 align:middle line:90% Michael says. 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:31.170 align:middle line:84% But when I think he's saying is, 'you are too strict, Marie. 00:04:31.170 --> 00:04:33.660 align:middle line:90% You are a nun.' 00:04:33.660 --> 00:04:38.130 align:middle line:84% Then I think, do I love Michael enough to allow 00:04:38.130 --> 00:04:44.640 align:middle line:84% him to think these things of me, even if he's not thinking them? 00:04:44.640 --> 00:04:47.880 align:middle line:84% Above Manhattan, the moon wanes and the sky 00:04:47.880 --> 00:04:50.700 align:middle line:90% turns clearer and colder. 00:04:50.700 --> 00:04:53.790 align:middle line:84% Although the days after the solstice 00:04:53.790 --> 00:04:56.160 align:middle line:84% have started to lengthen, we both 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:00.590 align:middle line:90% know the winter has only begun." 00:05:00.590 --> 00:05:04.000 align:middle line:90%