Egg Tooth
Egg Tooth I was yesterday with a woman selling flowers at the local Bandon Marketplace and she referenced her "Egg tooth", which is a special tooth that babies born inside of eggs have, placed usually on their snouts, and is the special tooth they use to initially break through the egg shell and to begin their life outside the shell. Once free, this egg tooth usually withers within the first couple of months of life. Immediately I spotted an untested (for me) metaphor, and thought immediately of my upbringing as a shy and withdrawn kid, and how I used hitchhiking as my egg tooth. The unconscious awareness that I needed to grow, and getting away, putting myself in a position of having to interact with strangers. I was lucky enough I guess to be born into a generation when hitchhiking was still a viable and accepted form of transportation for teenagers. I did a lot with it, and it did a lot to me. There have been many times in my life when I look back for its stren