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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.87,0:00:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Singing) I see the moon. The moon sees me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.79,0:00:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The moon sees somebody that I don't see.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.86,0:00:33.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God bless the moon, and god bless me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.39,0:00:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and God bless that somebody that I don't see.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.37,0:00:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I get to heaven, before you do,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.05,0:00:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll make a hole and pull you through.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.89,0:00:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll write your name, on every star,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.78,0:01:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that way the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,won't seem so far.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.89,0:01:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The astronaut will not be at work today.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.60,0:01:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is cold and sick.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.50,0:01:16.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has turned off his cell phone, his laptop, his pager, his alarm clock.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.89,0:01:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a fat yellow cat asleep on his couch,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.85,0:01:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rain drops against the window,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.80,0:01:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not even the hint of coffee in the kitchen air.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.01,0:01:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody is in a tizzy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.77,0:01:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The engineers on the 15th floor have stopped working on their particle machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.71,0:01:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The anti gravity room is leaking
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.71,0:01:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even the freckled kid with glasses,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.32,0:01:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose only job is to take out the trash, is nervous,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.84,0:01:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fumbles the bag, spils a banana peel and a paper cup.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.78,0:01:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody notices.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.38,0:01:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are too busy recalculating what this all mean for lost time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.30,0:01:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many galaxies are we losing per second.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.87,0:01:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How long before next rocket can be launched, somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.01,0:01:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An electron flies off its energy cloud.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.74,0:01:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A black whole has erupted.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.02,0:01:56.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A mother finishes setting the table for dinner.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.22,0:01:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A law and order marathon is starting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.53,0:02:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The astronaut is asleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.04,0:02:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has forgotten to turn off his watch,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.96,0:02:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which ticks, like a metal pulse against his wrist.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.76,0:02:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He does not hear it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.51,0:02:09.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He dreams of coral reefs and plankton.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.67,0:02:12.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His fingers find the pillowcase, his sailing mask.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.68,0:02:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He turns on his side. Opens his eyes at once.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.40,0:02:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He thinks that scuba divers must have \Nthe most wonderful job in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.67,0:02:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much water to glide through!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.38,0:02:30.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.69,0:02:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.88,0:02:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was little, I could not understand the concept
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.00,0:02:39.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you could only live one life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.77,0:02:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't mean this metaphorically.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.64,0:02:44.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I literally thought that I was going to get to do
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.97,0:02:47.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything that there was to do
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.51,0:02:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be everything there was to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.03,0:02:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was only a matter of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.90,0:02:54.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ad there was no limitation based on age, or gender,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.71,0:02:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or race or even appropriate time period.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.66,0:03:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was sure that I was going to actually experience
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.01,0:03:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it felt like to be a leader of the civil right movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.52,0:03:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a ten-year old boy living on a farm during the dust bowl,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.44,0:03:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or an emperor of the Tang dynasty in China.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.09,0:03:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mom says that when people asked me what
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.74,0:03:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to be when I grew up, my typical response was princess-ballerina-astronaut.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.33,0:03:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what she doesn't understand is that I wasn't trying to invent some combined super profession.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.44,0:03:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was listing things I thought I was gonna get to be:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.87,0:03:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a princess, and a ballerina, and an astronaut.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.95,0:03:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm pretty sure the list probably went on from there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.40,0:03:36.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I usually just got cut off.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.59,0:03:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was never a question of if I was going to do something, so much of a question of when.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.88,0:03:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was sure that if I was going to do everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.70,0:03:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it probably meant I had to move pretty quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.71,0:03:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there was a lot of stuff I needed to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.66,0:03:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my life was constantly in a state of rushing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.01,0:03:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was always scared that I was falling behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.02,0:03:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And since I grew up in New York City, as far as I could tell,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.94,0:04:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rushing was pretty normal.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.11,0:04:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, as I grew up, I had this sinking realization,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.93,0:04:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I wasn't gonna get to live any more than one life
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.02,0:04:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I only knew what it felt like to be a teenage girl
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.02,0:04:12.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in New York City,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.05,0:04:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a teenage boy in New Zealand,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.93,0:04:17.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a prom queen in Kansas.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.82,0:04:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I only got to see through my lens and it was around this time
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.01,0:04:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I became obsessed with stories,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.09,0:04:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it was through stories that I was able to see
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.03,0:04:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through someone else's lens, however briefly or imperfectly.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.02,0:04:33.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I started craving hearing other people's experiences
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.85,0:04:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was so jealous that there were entire lives
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.05,0:04:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I was never gonna get to live, and I wanted to hear
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.01,0:04:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about everything that I was missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.01,0:04:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by transitive property, I realized
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.33,0:04:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that some people were never going to get to experience what it felt like
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.07,0:04:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be a teenage girl in New York city.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.05,0:04:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which meant that they weren’t going to know
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.70,0:04:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the subway ride after your first kiss feels like,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.18,0:04:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or how quiet it gets when its snows,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.06,0:04:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I wanted them to know, I wanted to tell them
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.99,0:05:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this became the focus of my obsession.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.67,0:05:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I busied myself telling stories and sharing stories and collecting them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.46,0:05:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And its not until recently that I realized
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.49,0:05:11.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I can't always rush poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.95,0:05:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In April for National Poetry Month there's this challenge that,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.11,0:05:18.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many poets in the poetry community participate in,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.67,0:05:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its called the 30/30 Challenge.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.06,0:05:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea is you write a new poem every single day for the entire month of April.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.80,0:05:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And last year I tried it for the first time, and I was thrilled
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.04,0:05:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the efficiency at which I was able to produce poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.00,0:05:38.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at the end of the month I looked back at these 30 poems I had written,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.31,0:05:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and discovered that they were all trying to tell the same story,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.40,0:05:46.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it had just taken me 30 tries to figure out the way that it wanted to be told.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.83,0:05:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that this is probably true of other stories on an even larger scale.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.66,0:05:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have stories that I have tried to tell for years,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.02,0:05:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rewriting and rewriting and constantly searching for the right words.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.06,0:06:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a French poet, an essayist by the name of Paul Valery
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.02,0:06:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who said a poem is never finished, it is only abandoned.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.74,0:06:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this terrifies me because it implies that
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.26,0:06:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could keep reediting and rewriting forever and its up to me to decide
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.00,0:06:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when a poem is finished and when I can walk away from it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.76,0:06:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this goes directly against my very obsessive nature to try
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.04,0:06:22.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find the right answer, and the perfect words, and the right form.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.31,0:06:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I use poetry in my life, as a way to help me navigate an work through things.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.01,0:06:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But just because I end the poem, doesn't mean that I've solved
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.05,0:06:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever I was puzzling through.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.14,0:06:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like to revisit old poetry,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.76,0:06:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it shows me exactly where I was at that moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.61,0:06:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what it was I was trying to navigate and the words
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.20,0:06:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I chose to help me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.09,0:06:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I have a story that I've been stumbling over for years and years
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.10,0:06:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm not sure if I've found the prefect form,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.03,0:06:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether this is just one attempt
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.06,0:06:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I will try to rewrite it later
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.97,0:06:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in search of a better way to tell it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.83,0:06:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I do know that later, when I look back
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.11,0:07:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will be able to know that this is where I was
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.74,0:07:05.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at this moment, and this is what I was trying to navigate,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.01,0:07:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with these words, here, in this room, with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.73,0:07:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So -- Smile.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.86,0:07:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It didn't always work this way.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.52,0:07:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a time you have to get your hands dirty.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.01,0:07:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you were in the dark, for most of it, fumbling was a given,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.03,0:07:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you needed more contrast, more saturation,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.08,0:07:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,darker darks, and brighter brights.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.00,0:07:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They called it extended development. It meant you spent
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.05,0:07:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,longer inhaling chemicals, longer up to your wrist.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.90,0:07:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't always easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.36,0:07:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grandpa Stewart was a navy photographer.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.04,0:07:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young, red-faced with the sleeves rolled up,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.31,0:07:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fists of fingers like fat rolls of coins,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.41,0:07:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he looked like Popeye the sailor man, come to life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.51,0:07:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crooked smile, tuft of chest hair,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.24,0:07:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he showed up at World War II, with a smirk and a hobby.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.77,0:08:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they asked him if he knew much about photography,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.42,0:08:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he lied, learned to read Europe like a map,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.28,0:08:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upside down, from the height of a fighter plane,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.02,0:08:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,camera snapping, eyelids flapping, the darkest darks
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.09,0:08:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and brightest brights.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.01,0:08:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He learned war like he could read his way home.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.02,0:08:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When other men returned, they would put their weapons out to rest,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.05,0:08:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he, brought the lenses and the cameras home with him.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.87,0:08:25.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Opened a shop, turned it into a family affair.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.65,0:08:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father was born into this world of black and white.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.04,0:08:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His basketball hands learned the tiny clicks and slides
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.60,0:08:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of lens into frame, film into camera,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.06,0:08:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chemical into plastic bin.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.00,0:08:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His father knew the equipment but not the art.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.01,0:08:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew the darks but not the brights.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.00,0:08:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father learned the magic, spent his time following light.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.02,0:08:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once he traveled across the country to follow a forest fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.99,0:08:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hunted it with his camera for a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.97,0:08:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Follow the light," he said.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.30,0:08:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Follow the light."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.83,0:08:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.29,0:09:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The loft on Wooster street with the creaky hallways,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.51,0:09:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the twelve-foot ceilings, the white walls and cold floors.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.52,0:09:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was my mothers home, before she was mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.29,0:09:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before she was wife, she was artist.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.24,0:09:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the only two rooms in the house,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.96,0:09:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with walls that reached all the way up to the ceiling,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.11,0:09:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and doors that opened and closed,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.74,0:09:18.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were the bathroom and the dark room.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.71,0:09:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dark room she built herself, with custom made
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.04,0:09:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stainless steel sinks, an 8 by 10 bed enlarger
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.01,0:09:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that moved up and down by a giant hand crank,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.04,0:09:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bank of color balanced lights,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.06,0:09:31.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a white glass wall for viewing prints,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.41,0:09:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a drying rack that moved in and out from the wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.86,0:09:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother built herself a dark room.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.93,0:09:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Made it her home.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.08,0:09:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fell in love with a man with basketball hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.98,0:09:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the way he looked at light.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.26,0:09:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They got married. Had a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.36,0:09:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moved to a house near a park.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.01,0:09:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they kept the loft at Wooster street
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.01,0:09:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for birthday parties and treasure hunts.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.87,0:09:53.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The baby tipped the gray scale.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.61,0:09:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Filled her parents' photo albums with red balloons
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.08,0:09:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yellow icing.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.07,0:09:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The baby grew into a girl without freckles,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.54,0:10:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a crooked smile,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.00,0:10:05.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who didn’t understand why her friends did not have dark rooms in their houses,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.71,0:10:07.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who never saw her parents kiss,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.49,0:10:09.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who never saw them hold hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.45,0:10:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But one day, another baby showed up.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.04,0:10:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This one with perfect straight hair and bubble gum cheeks.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.86,0:10:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They named him sweet potato.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.57,0:10:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When she laughed, he laughed so loudly,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.02,0:10:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he scared the pigeons on the fire escape
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.06,0:10:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the four of them lived in that house near the park.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.26,0:10:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The girl with no freckles, and the sweet potato boy,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.90,0:10:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the basketball father, and the dark room mother
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.03,0:10:30.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they lit their candles, and they said their prayers,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.87,0:10:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the corners of the photographs curled.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.70,0:10:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day some towers fell
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.75,0:10:39.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the house near the park became a house under ash, so they escaped.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.85,0:10:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In backpacks, on bicycles to darkrooms but the loft of Wooster street
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.01,0:10:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was built for an artist, not a family of pigeons
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.81,0:10:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and walls that do not reach the ceiling
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.78,0:10:52.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do not hold in the yelling
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.09,0:10:56.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a man with basketball hands put his weapons out to rest.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.74,0:11:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could not fight this war and no maps pointed home.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.01,0:11:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His hands no longer fit his camera,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.68,0:11:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no longer fit his wife's,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.36,0:11:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no longer fit his body.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.86,0:11:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sweet potato boy mashed his fists into his mouth
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.71,0:11:10.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until he had nothing more to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.23,0:11:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the girl without freckles went treasure hunting on her own.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.02,0:11:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on Wooster street, in a building with a creaky hallways,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.64,0:11:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a loft of the 12-foot ceiling
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.49,0:11:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a darkroom with too many sinks
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.48,0:11:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the color balance light, she found a note,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.03,0:11:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tacked to the wall thumb-tacked, left over from the times before towers,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.94,0:11:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the time before babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.48,0:11:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the note said: "A guy sure loves the girl who works in the darkroom."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.01,0:11:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a year before my father picked up a camera again.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.94,0:11:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His first time out, he followed the Christmas lights,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.58,0:11:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dotting their way through New York City's trees.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.01,0:11:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tiny dots of light, blinking out of him from out of the darkest darks.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.97,0:11:54.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A year later he traveled across the country to follow a forest fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.87,0:11:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stayed for a week hunting it with his camera,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.53,0:11:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was ravaging the West Coast
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.50,0:12:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eating 18-wheeler trucks in its stride.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.48,0:12:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other side of the country,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.06,0:12:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to class and wrote a poem on the margins of my notebook.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.05,0:12:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have both learned the art of capture.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.76,0:12:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe we are learning the art of embracing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.45,0:12:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe we are learning the art of letting go.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.00,2:06:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You. (Applause)