Background – My son Matt and I were baking a cake for my father-in-laws
80th birthday, and Matt tackled the task of separating the
eggs. As he was flopping the yolk from
one shell to the other he noticed the white, stringy thing hanging from the
yolk. He calls me over, points it out
and asks me if it’s a fetus. I have a
good laugh and then tell him that I don’t know what it’s called, but that it’s
definitely NOT a fetus! In light of my clearly lacking knowledge as
to what this thing is called and what its purpose is, he shrugs me off and
declares that he’s pretty sure it’s a fetus.
I have little else to add except “It’s
NOT a fetus” and we move on to finish the cake.
S.C.O.U.T. – A little over an hour later – yes, just ONE HOUR later -
cake cooling, I settle into my reading chair with my UJBR “Supremely
Satisfying” edition of random trivia and pop the book open to pg. 61 where I
had left off the last time I read. The
title of the next section is “Test Your Egg I.Q.”. That familiar tingle begins to creep down my
spine as I read the blurb about the stringy white thing attached to the yolk of
an egg. It’s called the “chalazae” and
its primary function is to hold the yolk in place.
I sit for a moment – stunned - and contemplate the
over-whelming feeling that my world is nowhere near as solid as it appears and
that there are moving parts and energy that we humans have only just begun to
become aware of. If I live for 100 years
you will never convince me that this was just a mere coincidence. My son asks me a question that I don’t have
the answer to, and one hour later the answer randomly appears.... I use the
word “randomly” very loosely here. Uncanny,
simply uncanny.
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