Please welcome guest blogger, Dina Corcoran, whose poem, Forgiveness, offers a surprising glance into the subject. Dina is a memoirist, poet and survivor of the 2017 Tubbs Fire. She has won awards two years running in the Jessamyn West Literary contest.
Forgiveness
In friends I like a cheerful nature
And honesty enriches the deal.
I’d sooner sit with realness
Than suffer the pretentious.
Wanda, with her southern accent and fake genteel manner,
Asks “Why is it you don’t like me?”
Gently I caress her hand.
It’s not her nature to understand.
Building a Better Story 
What an interesting take on forgiveness . . . forgiving people for not having capacities you want them to have. Maybe, just maybe, that frees us to see the capacities they do have.
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Maybe! Dina always has an interesting slant on things.
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