On Being Listening Party — Celebrating 20 Years

[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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On Being Listening Party — Celebrating 20 Years

I have listened to On Being for years. It was the first podcast I followed before I knew what podcasts were. It has been church and rock. It has been friend and secret knower. It has been muse and artist. It has been communion with the what if and not yet. It has been balm when questions have rubbed the vulnerable parts of me raw. It has been music when I have needed to quiet all the noise. It has been mana during darkness and light.

I wrote about several episodes in a previous Weekly Wide Awake. This episode is the Listening Party hosted on the occasion of On Being’s 20th anniversary/reimagining. It is a celebration of the voices and insight gleaned from the past and a nod to the new direction On Being will take in the upcoming future.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. On Being.

Click here to listen to the On Being Listening Party