[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Weekly Wide-Awake: The Angels and the Furies
The angels, the furies/ Are never far away/ While we dance, we dance,/ Trying to keep a balance/ To be perfectly human/ (Not perfect, never perfect,/ Never an end to growth and peril),/ Able to bless and forgive/ Ourselves./ This is what is asked of us.
May Sarton
May Sarton’s poem, The Angels and the Furies came to my attention this week. I think about the real life angels that live around me. I think about the furies that too often steal my peace. This happens to me everyday. I miss seeing the good when I am consumed by the bad. I miss dancing with the angels. The angel and fury dance is exhausting, so I try to change the steps.
I wrote about the value of mindfulness in the search for happiness and how the principles of Tipping Points might apply to wide-awakeness this week. I also considered widening my circle of compassion at this time when my heart can feel so hard and my expectations can negatively frame my experiences. I was reminded that the angel and fury dance is most fluid and beautiful when I am working toward my something, too.
About Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
