eleven o’clockish

 

When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of
sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.

~Winnie the Pooh

 
I should have known better. It was simply getting too hot outdoors, and everyone was wilted and worn. Sometimes though, exhaustion can be the catalyst for the most genuine expressions, as was true for this sweet and most accommodating six year old, who’d been “trying” so hard to give me exactly what she imagined I wanted from her. Only in her perfectly depleted state did she finally surrender her desire to please, and what remained was an “I’m over you lady, this is who I am, accept it” mien. By this point in time she would not know, nor care in the least, that it was exactly what I was hoping to see from her.

Incidentally, when I thought to put the Winnie the Pooh quote with this particular image I looked at the accompanying EXIF information and noticed the that capture time was precisely 10:58:51am. So she was, without a doubt, feeling a bit eleven o’clockish.

~Cynthia