Enjoy this excerpt from A Season of Longing that includes audio clips of a reading from the Acknowledgements section and a poem!

In the movie, The Matrix, the main character, Neo, is given an audience with the Oracle, the seer who reads the future, to find if he is “The One.” She let’s him reveal his doubt, and later apologizes to him, implying that he is right to doubt, adding, “You’ve got the gift, but it looks like you are waiting for something.”