Holman’s House By Darrell B. Grayson on the Dead Mule

Holman’s House, a new chapbook by poet Darrell B. Grayson, can now be read online at The Dead Mule School Of Southern Literature.   Presented by editors, Valerie MacEwan and myself, this chapbook is the first publication of the Second Edition of the Mule.  There’s lots more to come.  Other chapbooks and poems will be online in late April.

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A special thanks to Esther Brown for her help with the preparation of the manuscript.  Read this extraordinary poet.

Healing Our Memories by Henri Nouwen

Forgiving does not mean forgetting. When we forgive a person, the memory of the wound might stay with us for a long time, even throughout our lives. Sometimes we carry the memory in our bodies as a visible sign. But forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. When we forgive our parents for their divorce, our children for their lack of attention, our friends for their unfaithfulness in crisis, our doctors for their ill advice, we no longer have to experience ourselves as the victims of events we had no control over.

Forgiveness allows us to claim our own power and not let these events destroy us; it enables them to become events that deepen the wisdom of our hearts. Forgiveness indeed heals memories.