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Widening the Circle of Compassion
Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and com...
read moreWhat a fig tree taught me about the fragility of life
“Grow back? You don’t know that!” I shot back, and looked to my dad for backup. After all, he was the one who had called these landscapers. “It’ll grow back,” he said quietly.In this country, many of us can take so much for granted in nor...
read moreOn Self-Respect
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which, for better or for worse, constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, parado...
read moreWeekly Wide-Awake: There is no Frigate like a Book
There is no Frigate like a Book/To take us Lands away/Nor any Coursers like a Page/Of prancing Poetry./This Traverse may the poorest take/Without oppress of Toll;/How frugal is the Chariot/That bears the Human Soul!Emily Dickinson I have returned ...
read moreAbout 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.