[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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Love – thou art high
Love – thou art high -/ I cannot climb thee -/ But, were it Two -/ Who knows but we -/ Taking turns – at the Chimborazo -/ Ducal – at last – stand up by thee-// Love – thou art deep – I cannot cross thee -/ But, were there Two/ Instead of One -/ Rower, and Yacht – some sovereign Summer -/ Who knows – but we’d reach the Sun?// Love – thou art Veiled -/ A few – behold thee-/ Smile – and alter – and prattle – and die -/ Bliss – were an Oddity – without thee -/ Nicknamed by God – Eternity –
Emily Dickinson
In Dickinson’s view, Love happens when Two are gathered. We can climb higher. We can cross deep waters. We can see Eternity. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
I understand Two to mean that wherever two or more are gathered, there is Love. I believe in that kind of Love. That is the Love that is constant like the seasons and abiding like the sun. That is the Love that multiplies exponentially when shared. That is the Love that changes hearts and minds That is the fierce Love that can be called Eternity.
Love is big enough to be all that for me.
About 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.
