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Dear Reader,
I chose the word "assignment" to focus on every day this year, so now it's the mantra that guides me through my day. I wake up in the morning, drink my one cup of coffee and ask the question, "What's my assignment for today?" I warn you, if you give it a try, it's not magic. I don't hear a loud, booming voice, "Suzanne, your assignment for today is.... Now get to it and don't screw it up!" Rarely is it immediately clear to me what my "assignment" is for the day, and sometimes it's not until late in the evening, when I'm reviewing events of my day, that I realize, 'Oh, I see now, that was my assignment.' I smile, because it's a little bit of magic. Little being the key word, because most of my assignments are simple, seemingly little nothings, but they seem to make a big difference.
It was 7 a.m., I was in my nightgown, bent over, plugging in the electric bubble machine in front of my house. A runner was passing by on the sidewalk, "Good morning, Bubble Lady." I could hear the smile in her voice. Later in the day, when I went outside to fill my bubble machine there was a small calling card tucked in the handle of a bottle of bubble solution. "LOVE your Bubbles! I got a machine of my own!!! Thanks, Robert."
Sometimes assignments are scheduled in advance, and I'm given a deadline. (Since I write a daily column, I'm used to deadlines, so it's a perfect match.) I'm currently working on next Monday's assignment. I sew quilts for fun, but I can't keep them all, so I give them away. Who do I give them to? I never know in advance who I'm sewing a quilt for, but somewhere in the sewing process it becomes clear whose quilt it is. Dr. Al's birthday is this coming Monday and he's my Monday assignment.
What's today's assignment? I haven't heard yet, but I do know that as I'm writing to you, I'm recalling the joy I've felt from all of my assignments.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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AUTHORBUZZ: No Darker Place (Thriller) by Debra Webb
From the moment my first was born I instinctively understood there was nothing more terrifying than even the mere thought of losing a child. As I wrote this thriller I often called upon that deeply entrenched terror. Detective Bobbie Gentry has been to the darkest place any woman can be taken and survive. Now she just wants revenge--even if it kills her.
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