WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.820 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.820 --> 00:00:06.930 align:middle line:84% As far as publishing goes and writing. 00:00:06.930 --> 00:00:09.670 align:middle line:84% I often talk to children about books. 00:00:09.670 --> 00:00:13.560 align:middle line:84% And one of their commonest questions to me 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:18.390 align:middle line:84% is how long does it take to make a book. 00:00:18.390 --> 00:00:20.490 align:middle line:84% And sometimes it's how many minutes 00:00:20.490 --> 00:00:22.170 align:middle line:90% does it take to make a book. 00:00:22.170 --> 00:00:24.900 align:middle line:90% 00:00:24.900 --> 00:00:29.880 align:middle line:84% And they're appalled when I say all my life. 00:00:29.880 --> 00:00:33.960 align:middle line:84% But that's really the true answer as I know. 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:36.150 align:middle line:90% John would agree. 00:00:36.150 --> 00:00:38.520 align:middle line:84% It's been a great pleasure for Ross and me 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:41.820 align:middle line:84% and the rest of our staff because many people have helped 00:00:41.820 --> 00:00:43.890 align:middle line:90% to publish this wonderful book. 00:00:43.890 --> 00:00:46.680 align:middle line:84% We're really the proverbial pygmies standing 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:50.220 align:middle line:84% on the shoulders of giants or maybe lots of other pygmies, 00:00:50.220 --> 00:00:52.050 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:00:52.050 --> 00:00:56.460 align:middle line:84% This has been a huge project over many years. 00:00:56.460 --> 00:00:59.850 align:middle line:84% A solo activity in a group activity. 00:00:59.850 --> 00:01:02.880 align:middle line:84% And lots of people deserve to be thanked. 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:06.540 align:middle line:84% Some of them are here and some of them are not. 00:01:06.540 --> 00:01:09.360 align:middle line:84% Writing and publishing a book is a process. 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:12.540 align:middle line:84% And it's also like making a movie. 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:15.985 align:middle line:90% It's a team as she said. 00:01:15.985 --> 00:01:17.610 align:middle line:84% There have been people who cheered Drum 00:01:17.610 --> 00:01:20.370 align:middle line:84% along and applauded his work and supported him 00:01:20.370 --> 00:01:24.450 align:middle line:84% and contributed either knowingly or unknowingly 00:01:24.450 --> 00:01:26.970 align:middle line:90% their voices and their stories. 00:01:26.970 --> 00:01:31.320 align:middle line:84% This book is just a wealth of stories and voices. 00:01:31.320 --> 00:01:35.700 align:middle line:84% And as another writer it's really very tempting when 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:37.620 align:middle line:84% you read it to think oh this is good, 00:01:37.620 --> 00:01:39.345 align:middle line:84% I could do something like that maybe. 00:01:39.345 --> 00:01:43.070 align:middle line:90% 00:01:43.070 --> 00:01:45.120 align:middle line:90% And I'm also a-- 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.490 align:middle line:84% I'm a fourth generation rancher myself. 00:01:47.490 --> 00:01:50.220 align:middle line:84% And reading through Drum's stuff I've 00:01:50.220 --> 00:01:54.090 align:middle line:84% had these shocks of oh my gosh that's like old Uncle John 00:01:54.090 --> 00:01:59.970 align:middle line:84% and it's also immensely enlarged my Spanish vocabulary 00:01:59.970 --> 00:02:02.880 align:middle line:84% in certain areas that it was defective in. 00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:07.050 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:07.050 --> 00:02:12.600 align:middle line:84% Our employee Liz helped me with the Spanish proofreading 00:02:12.600 --> 00:02:15.870 align:middle line:84% and she and I would sit over Drum's text 00:02:15.870 --> 00:02:20.840 align:middle line:84% and Liz would go just I didn't know you could write that. 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:26.790 align:middle line:90% But it's very rich step. 00:02:26.790 --> 00:02:28.830 align:middle line:84% Other telling moments where when Drum 00:02:28.830 --> 00:02:31.650 align:middle line:84% would call us up and whistle over the phone that the 00:02:31.650 --> 00:02:34.230 align:middle line:84% tunes that he wanted to get into the book. 00:02:34.230 --> 00:02:35.970 align:middle line:84% And he'd sit there listening to it 00:02:35.970 --> 00:02:38.460 align:middle line:84% and thinking this is going to be hard. 00:02:38.460 --> 00:02:39.630 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:39.630 --> 00:02:43.680 align:middle line:84% But they're in there, quite a few of them are in there. 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.440 align:middle line:84% Another memorable time was when Drum 00:02:46.440 --> 00:02:48.720 align:middle line:84% tried to get 15 more pages into the book 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:50.800 align:middle line:84% when it was already at the printers. 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:51.455 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:51.455 --> 00:02:51.955 align:middle line:90% I know. 00:02:51.955 --> 00:02:54.930 align:middle line:90% 00:02:54.930 --> 00:02:58.570 align:middle line:84% But I kept telling him that those new poems are great 00:02:58.570 --> 00:03:00.630 align:middle line:90% and this is the next book. 00:03:00.630 --> 00:03:03.360 align:middle line:84% And I really look forward to seeing the next book 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.510 align:middle line:90% and I hope we all do very soon. 00:03:06.510 --> 00:03:08.160 align:middle line:90% So thank you, Drum. 00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:08.760 align:middle line:90% Thanks too. 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:10.500 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:10.500 --> 00:03:11.000 align:middle line:90%