Sunday, January 31, 2010

like soot






Neither of her parents was thinking abt the other one the night that she was conceived. Everyone agreed that she had done well for herself after a childhood spent looking for the hand that wasn’t holding a cellphone.

S: “So you have a pretty unique success story. How did your spiritual quest lead you to being the host of Search for the Real?”

E: “Well, I met A*** in Nepal, where we were both doing a bit of soul-searching. We decided that, much like the tree in the forest, our search was irrelevant if it wasn’t being
narrated.”

X: “?”

S: “Did you find what you were looking for?”

E: “Our show is less abt trajectory & more abt feelings.”

X: “?”

Off-camera, she connects the dots.

“It looks like soot. Only I can see it. Some of us are completely covered in it, while others just have spots here & there.”