[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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Estranged from Beauty – none can be-
Estranged from Beauty – none can be -/ For Beauty is Infinity -/ And power to be finite ceased/ Before identity was leased.
Emily Dickinson
I am grateful that we are all connected to Beauty in a deep down, molecular, big, cosmic way. I am grateful that Beauty is Infinity like stars, sand, whales, and butterflies. I am grateful that Beauty’s arms are wide enough to embrace us all. That is comforting in a world where age can make Beauty feel finite, definitions can make Beauty feel rigid, and identity can make Beauty feel separate.
Truth is not estranged from Beauty. As Keats suggests, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” Maybe Truth meets Beauty at the point of Infinity? Maybe Truth and Beauty are constructs thrust upon us that melt away with time? Maybe Truth and Beauty are simple answers offered to difficult questions? Both are complex and evolving. Both are situated and left up to particular eyes and ears. Both have a distinct smell and taste and feel that we know. There is a bit of solace there. They are all we need to know.
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.
