Weekly Wide-Awake: On Moving

[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: On Moving

Stasis is a sieve through which I drag myself.
Jane Huffman, On Moving

A sieve separates solids from liquids. I pour my thoughts and actions, my feelings and fears, my hopes and desires, my past and future, my stories and words, my ebbs and flows, my falling aparts and back togethers through a sieve. Separating it all out. Piece by piece. Experience by experience. Memory by Memory. Searching for understanding.

Let me explain.

Rather than being a fixed state, stasis — for me — means moving between it all. Back and Forth and Forward. Not too far from Center. Never resting and never hurrying. Careful to create and not destroy. Paying attention to it all. Returning to gentle along the way. The sieve as lens. The sieve as mirror. The sieve as breath. The sieve as sweetness.

We have a choice. We can drag or dance. We can cry or sing. We can dream or dread. The secret is the divine movement between it all.

Weekly Wide-Awake: On Moving

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