When I arrived at the office this morning, a letter was waiting on my desk. Folded delicately and wrapped in a soft yellow ribbon, the note shouted to me from across the room, since everyone here at WTL News is familiar with these notes wrapped in yellow ribbon. Our Benefactor always wraps His messages this way, so I quickly crossed the room and excitedly picked up the note to read its contents. 

This was the first correspondence I’d received since the office meeting last week, where I’d been promoted to being WTL’s first Time Traveling Journalist, so I was itching with curiosity and excitement for what might be inside the note. Could it be a traveling itinerary so soon? Or better yet, maybe it would instruct me to take an in depth training seminar, explaining exactly what my new position was? What exactly was I being expected to do, anyway? 

Sure, I am able to pack light and travel fast, capable of surviving out in the field for long periods of time. Interviewing folks and writing about it has always come easy to me, flowing from mind to page smoothly, as if I’d been born with a pen in my tiny hand. Ever since the office meeting, I’d been pondering what might be in store for this quirky girl from country, turned investigative columnist… or Time Traveling Journalist, as the new name plate on my desk boldly reflects.

The note from my Benefactor instructed me to report to the Archives Department, where I was to be given full access to all of WTL Historical Records for study! Apparently, I am to spend this entire week perusing all of the documents, making myself more familiar with all of our history. At the end of the week, I am to submit my first three choices in time, for my first On The Job Training assignment. 

My boss knows me so well, choosing to teach me hands on, as this is my natural way of really learning and remembering things. How better to figure out my new job, than to simply immerse myself in the task at hand. Reading a thing, talking about a thing, or even dreaming about a thing, doesn’t really make it work like it should until you DO the thing, if you get my way of understanding. 

With this in mind, I am off to the Archives to DO that which has been instructed so far, trusting that the records might reveal more of the What When Where and Who part of my new position. Personally, I have a handful of history participants that I have long since had a desire to investigate. Is it wrong to say that I already have a favorite in mind? She is someone that I’ve always found to be intriguing, as well as, incredibly selfless! I wonder how much I will be able to find on her in the records, as I’ve not found much in all my other research. 

Oh well, I shall report to the Archives for my assignment, trusting my Benefactor to make the right choice for me at the end of the week. I shall do my best to thoroughly study all that lay before me, selecting the top three destinations, even if my first choice isn’t the one He sends me toward. If nothing else, I can discover as much about her as I can, while searching through the records. Perhaps I can visit her at another time if things work out, as time it seems, has now become my career…