[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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The Angels and the Furies
The Angels and the Furies
May Sarton
1
Have you not wounded yourself/ And battered those you love/ By sudden motions of evil,/ Black rage in the blood/ When the soul, premier danseur,/ Springs toward a murderous fall?/ The furies possess you.
2
Have you not surprised yourself/ Sometimes by sudden motions/ Or intimations of goodness,/ When the soul, premier danseur,/ Perfectly poised,/ Could shower blessings/ With a graceful turn of the head?/ The angels are there.
3
The angels, the furies/ Are never far away/ While we dance, we dance,/ Trying to keep a balance/ To be perfectly human/ (Not perfect, never perfect,/ Never an end to growth and peril),/ Able to bless and forgive/ Ourselves./ This is what is asked of us.
4
It is light that matters,/ The light of understanding./ Who has ever reached it/ Who has not met the furies again and again?/ Who has reached it without/ Those sudden acts of grace?
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.
