Author: Simona A. Brinson

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  • Friday Favorites: If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

    ~by Emily Dickinson~ If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain. ©mylifeinword.com All rights reserved.

  • Small Rebellion: A Christmas Story

    The fourth-grade classroom at Avalon Elementary smelled faintly of pencil shavings and floor wax. Construction paper wreaths were crookedly taped to the walls, their glitter shedding onto the linoleum whenever someone brushed past. Outside, Naples winter meant open windows and salt in the air, not cold, but December still arrived with a kind of expectation.…

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  • MY SECRET PLACE

    Touch me in my secret placeThat only you can find.When you reach that secret placeBlow my ever-loving mind.But where my love, shall you begin?Start by touching me skin on skin.Touch me here. Touch me there.Touch me. Touch me, everywhere.Touch my legs. Touch my thighs.Where do you think my secret lies? Take your hands and trace…

  • Friday Favorites: I Have Not Tired of the Wilderness

    ~by Everett Ruess~ I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the…

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  • HIS GRACE

    By the grace of God, my darkness ended.Through night’s tunnel, my soul He tended.Through many nights and countless days,He held my hand; He led the way.He stroked my heart so soft, so tender,To my supplication He did render,An answer to my pleading prayer:“Give me strength, for if I am to bearSuch heartache, anguish and blinding…

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