[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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Oh Sumptuous moment
Oh Sumptuous moment/ Slower go/ That I may gloat on thee -// ‘Twill never be the same to starve/ Now I abundance see -// Which was to famish, then or now -// The difference of Day/ Ask him unto the Gallows led -// With morning in the sky –
Emily Dickinson
The word Sumptuous makes me smile. It makes me think of gratitude and presence. Experiencing and cherishing. Lingering and savoring. Round circles dancing. Bounteous tables feasting. Songs lifting and vibrating at frequencies only our souls can hear. Sumptuous is the space above the present moment where stillness and knowing live.
The morning sky is sumptuous. Ripe with forgiveness and the smell of new. Full with the promise of “Start” and “Yes”. Some traditions teach to honor the sunrise, and that makes sense in the same way that Buddhist sand paintings inspire fleeting and memorable awe. It makes sense to allow morning to wash over and change us — deep down. It makes sense that we taste every bite of morning as the blessing that it is. It makes sense that hunger can meet satiation at dawn.
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.
