Pivotal Moment

“I grew up in a small town. I went to school there. Then one day a new family moved into our neighborhood. They had a daughter about the same age as I was and they had a younger daughter as well,” Gan said, while speaking of an early pivotal moment as a teenager.

Everyone Gan knew up to this point had always lived in the same town and had gone to the same schools. Right up to his early years in high school.

“Our town had a particular culture. We viewed the world in the same way,” he continued.

They also viewed history through the same lens. It had never occurred to him that there may be a different point of view.

“We got to know our new neighbors fairly well. They were real nice people from a nearby state. I hadn’t considered the possibility of significant differences,” Gan explained, right before he described a perspicuous moment of ideation.

It was a shift earned through observation, a moment from the past he seemed to pull easily from his pocket, as if it were a favorite, comfortable wallet, filled with personal historical currency. His eyes drifted from the present, as if a vehicle of time travel, allowing him to relive what he thought was going to be a typical barbeque with neighbors they were still getting to know.

“The daughter, about my age and in high school, had gone to school in the state they recently left. The younger daughter had been in our local school for a couple of years,” Gan said as he aptly painted through voice.

He went on brushing in details of the scene that had occurred some forty years earlier. Saying that as the conversing group relaxed in his backyard, it soon became clear that the sisters had been taught wholly different perspectives of the area’s history.

“Theirs was such a stark, contrasting assessment of the same historical period, that I was want to simply sit and observe the unfolding moment. I wondered at the divide and how it had occurred within the same family,” Gan illustrated with auditory, pictorial strokes.

He stood in the present, while reposing on his childhood patio, with the scent of barbeque seemingly-still-vivid and wafting through his memory, as if present.

“The moment and its people changed me,” Gan said as he phased into the now. “I understood, for the first time, that others, even living underneath the same roof, could view current and historical events very differently. And, that an everyday experience, seemingly insignificant in its initiation, could become a pivotal, life changing moment.”

“I just sat back, observed and listened; saying wow!” – Gan Nunnally

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