IF THE SOULS COULD SPEAK

Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As I am now, you soon will be. Prepare for death and follow me. After reading these words on a tombstone, Michael J. Maxson, author of If the Souls Could Speak, embarked on a journey toward renewed purpose and passion in his life. Left a widower after twenty-four years of marriage, Maxson searched for a new lease on life and found it in, of all places, a graveyard. Following his wifes untimely death, Maxson grieved by regularly visiting his wifes grave and then other graves, reading and recording the epitaphs that spoke to him. He covered thousands of miles as he traveled to more than seventy sites in North and South Carolina and collected hundreds of epitaphs. The quotes are powerful and his message is simple