Prologue: Part 2

(SLOW FADE IN)

The moments of months pass, primarily enveloped within gray clouds of the most vague of consciousnesses. Time has not yet succumbed to a more lineal subjugation of unhindered possibilities, the reduction of which seems to adults to be of an utmost necessity. But it is on its last shaky legs. In  another year or two it will be forced to inch forward dragging the weight of eliminated opportunities upon its back. Its passage at this juncture is punctuated only by the minuscule adjustments to the clarity of focus that are possible to achieve by unbiased, small eyes.

These moments of unfettered sight will eventually distill into muddled eccentricities or capricious curiosities, haphazardly catalogued, then locked away in the furthermost regions of memory. Rumaging through these derelict realms is where the search for clues sometimes turns when there is little tangible evidence to persue. The vain hope of such a quest is to retrieve the brighter jewels of a life well met. This effort now yields only shards and fragments of Time’s mirror reflection: A first nickname, the guitar in which candy was hidden (and promptly forgotten), the Lakota war club hung near the top of the coal cellar stairs.

Normal Child     2007, Copyright Emma G

 

If memory serves us (whom it always does serve, even if it does not serve Truth) the child is in all appearance at least,  normal. All appendages are account for and all senses operate within accepted parameters. Normal additionally here infers the ability to be open to possibility in all things without preconception. However within the constraints of the time continuum of our tale, genetic science has not yet advanced beyond the simplistic recognition of chromosomal gender classification into either XY male or XX female. Serious investigation at this point is still largely subverted by the primitive superstitions of a Judeo-Christian worldview and the puerile ramblings of behavior psychology implying absolute authority from societal constructs imposed during childhood. An alternate neurological basis has yet to be proposed and even rudimentary research into the biochemical impact of prenatal hormonal mechanisms will not occur for another twenty-five years.

Appearances, as oft elsewhere noted, can be deceiving, and in this case most assuredly were. The child is indeed by our primary definition exceedingly normal. But the impact of the circumstantial influences of daily life prove to be anything but.