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Dear Reader,
I'm on vacation today until August 9th, but I have no idea what I'll be doing. I've decided to simply get up in the morning and see where the day takes me. I hope one of the days takes me to Lakeland, Florida. There's an amazing park, near the library, where swans and ducks live and I love to feed the birds. While I'm gone, my Dear Reader spot will feature memorable columns with back stories, guest authors and some fun giveaways, I'm sure you'll enjoy. Signing off for a bit, out the door, and on vacation.... Suzanne Beecher.
If I'm paying attention and ready to listen, there's a story waiting for me everywhere I go.
I handed the bank teller my deposit and we started chatting about the early, hot, humid weather, which soon led to "The plants sure need more rain, don't they?"
And that's when she told me her "Once upon a time," true story...
"A gardenia plant was growing outside of my window," the bank teller settled back in her chair, "it had been blooming for 15 years in my yard, so abundantly, and it got so tall I had to trim it back a little bit. It was a beautiful plant, blooming right outside my kitchen window. It sounds kind of silly, but every day I'd say good morning to my gardenia plant while I was pouring my coffee. But then suddenly it died for no apparent reason. I expected the gardenia to keep blooming for many more years, because it looked so healthy and I took good care of it. But one day it died anyway, and since it had gotten so big, I was going to ask the man who cut my lawn if he would take it out of the ground for me. But before he could get around to it, I looked out my kitchen window one morning, and noticed a flowering vine had encompassed the gardenia plant--wrapped itself totally around my old gardenia plant and in a way, made it bloom again.
So I decided to let it be, to not to take the dead gardenia plant out, because maybe it was nature's way of making things beautiful and taking care of things. A cycle of life, don't you think? I still can't understand what happened to my gardenia plant. But I guess it's the way things were supposed to be, because whenever I look at the flowering vine, I remember my beautiful gardenia."
If I'm listening, everywhere I go there's a story waiting for me. What a blessing.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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B. S. INCORPORATED (Fiction) by Jennifer Rock and Michael Voss
Business Solutions, Inc. is in chaos. While employees stalk free snacks and rendezvous in the stairwells, company execs and shady consultants are running the company into the ground. Can former warehouse guy Will Evans and corporate mercenary Anna Reed set aside their differences to save this dumb-but-well-intended company from itself?
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