breakfast
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh, said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It’s the same thing, he said.
Winnie the Pooh (New York: Penguin, 2009).
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day…No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
Adam Bede (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917), 168.