Anna & Little Anna @ 6AM

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 It is a sunny Sunday summer morning.
 Anna and Annita walk to the store
 to get bagels & cream cheese...
 for a big family breakfast.

 Everyone else is still asleep in their house.
 Anna wants to awaken the family
 with bacon vapors.

 They get  three grocery bags plus Anna gets a cup of cappuccino.
 Since it  is cumbersome for her to carry everything, she straps
 the bagel bag on her four-year-old daughter's shoulder,
 over Annita's Winnie the Pooh sweatshirt.

 The bag would drag if  held in the child's  hand
  but is  the tot up to the task?

"It's like you're a grown-up girl carrying a purse," says the mother
"It's a bagel purse," says the daughter.
 They both laugh. 

 But ten seconds later, the bag slips of the child's shoulder.
 Mother  resets  the bag and then ten more  seconds later,
 the slippage  is  repeated.

 After the third occurrence, Anna re-claims the bag.
 But the heavier weight is now on her mind,
 not on her wrists.

 My daughter can't carry a two pound bag. Is this what Dr.  Bliss 
 meant by a latent learning disability with physical implications?                              

 Au contraire, Momma!

 Dig the glide in the stride of the Winnie The Pooh-shirted child
 as  she  swings  her  arms  so  freely,  thinking  about
 pumpernickel&cream cheese and Sunday sunshine
 with a smile that fills up the sky.

 And who gets to carry all the baggage?


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Footnote
Originally written in 1998, ANNA & LITTLE ANNA & 6AM
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
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