[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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Experience is the Angled Road
Experience is the Angled Road/ Preferred against the Mind/ By – Paradox -the Mind itself -/ Presuming it to lead// Quite Opposite – How Complicate/ The Discipline of Man -/ Compelling Him to Choose Himself/ His Preappointed Pain –
Emily Dickinson
I know the Angled Road of Experience and often choose it over Mind and Discipline. It’s just easier. It is easier to cut than measure. It is easier to leap than look. It is easier to burn than build. Cutting. Leaping. Burning.
Thinking more deeply.
The Angled Road is the falling apart and coming together. The Angled Road is the seasons. The Angled Road is the breathing in and breathing out. The Mind does not exist outside the Angled Road. The Mind and the Angled Road are not separate. The Mind and the Angled Road are the rhythm of life itself. In that way, we don’t choose Pain, and Discipline does not prevent all pain.
We all walk the Angled Road. Our Minds move between Discipline and emotion and survival. Our Pain is part of Angled Road of Experience. Our choice is to live fully in the midst of it all.
About Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
