[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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Autumn
Thus all doth fall. This hand of mine must fall And lo! the other one:—it is the law. But there is One who holds this falling Infinitely softly in His hands.
From “Autumn” by Rainer Maria Rilke
I find comfort in the idea of falling Infinitely softly. I find comfort knowing I am not alone in falling. I find comfort in knowing Love is guiding it all. In fact, falling is the dance of life itself. The fluidity of falling welcomes impermanence and change and rhythm. The fluidity of falling celebrates life’s truth and light and center. The fluidity of falling is the seasons, the sun and moon, and the water that wears away the rock. The fluidity of falling surrounds our falling apart and back together in grace and faith and love. That is Autumn’s promise.
About Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
