[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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What To Do When It’s Your Turn
“The body decides. The voice in your head narrates.”
Seth Godin
I have spent a lot of time taking turns. I have hurried and rested. I have rushed and waited. I have leaped and stood still. I have danced and crawled. What I know for sure about taking turns is the body knows. The body knows and then the body decides. The body decides before the voice in your head narrates. I have studied how the body knows — tapping into magic, paying attention, searching for wonder, noticing miracles, visiting shaman, bathing in healing waters, playing in imagination.
I agree with Godin that the body decides and the head narrates. The body decides what to create and our mind explores the as if and not yet. The body is about blood and guts and scar tissue and the mind builds a story. The body is about muscle memory and the mind is about the left and right brain.
I know several things for sure about taking a turn. It is my turn when I can do nothing else but take it. It is my turn when sweat and joy and dance. It is my turn when the headlights in my pitch black darkness guide. My turn is always right on time time.
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.
