[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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There Won’t Be Trumpets
There are heroes in the world
Sutton Foster singing “There Won’t Be Trumpets” from Stephen Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle
Princes and heroes in the world
And one of them will save us
Wait and see
Wait and see
I am thinking about waiting. I am thinking about Advent. I am thinking about this Gandhi quote. “We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” I am thinking about our capacity to meet these hard times by tapping in to the divine mystery. I am thinking about Jesus’ birth as divine mystery. As an invitation to be love in the world.
If we don’t have to wait. If we know there won’t be trumpets. If we understand the divine mystery. It lands on us to be the heroes in our stories, and in the story of our world. It lands on us to get into the arena and love ourselves and one another. It lands on us to forgive, to offer and accept grace, to serve, to celebrate, to grieve, to repair, to hold. There is nothing for which to wait. We are already love. There won’t be trumpets or heroes, simply love.
About Katie
From 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.
