Unrelated to any hard partying, sex tapes, or topless photo shoots, I have lost my crown. I feel so naked without it. While I feel no shame over the loss of my crown, I admit I feel a little, over having one in the first place.
I, unwittingly, relate crowns to elderly people and hillbillies, and beauty queens. And since I am neither officially a beauty queen nor octogenarian, I am feeling a little bit Okie. Fortunately mine is a molar and the crown is white rather than the traditional silver or gold. What feels more backwoods (besides sucking tepid coffee through a used straw) is the remaining gruesome knob of a tooth that is revealed when I pull back my cheek. I try to distract myself. But, like a moth to the flame, my tongue is beckoned to the jagged and hypersensitive nub of a tooth.
In contrast to the beauty queens who frequently forfeit their crowns, my new more lustrous crown shall be restored this Friday.
Maybe I will revisit the matter of more regular flossing.
In the midst of divorce, now, more than ever, my children look to me. "They look to me to see how merciful and generous I am in good times. They look to me to see how strong and faithful I am in bad times. They watch, they listen, and they model. Years from now I want my children to remember a childhood lived well, with a mother who was loving, consistent, devoted, funny, disciplined, playful, and totally present and emotionally available."(Kristin Armstrong)
I hope it goes well, been lucky enough not to have had a crown of any sort, or a sex tape or anything else you mentioned... I need to get a life..lol
ReplyDeleteI once told someone I was saving for a crown and she looked at me rather strangely. I realized she thought I was saving for the kind you wear on your head and not in your mouth.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the "saving for a crown" story. How funny! Its kind of too good to be true. I wished it were mine.
ReplyDeleteEh, I hate when I lose a crown or worse, the whole thing cracks and tries to fall apart!
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