[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 Spring Has Many Silences
The spring has many silences:
From Laura Riding Jackson’s “The Spring Has Many Silences“
Buds are mysteriously unbound
With a discreet significance,
And buds say nothing.
I find spring silence comforting. In her silence, she has known winter. In her silence, she whispers gently, “It is all alright.” In her silence, she holds me in a warm embrace. In her silence, she is possibility and tomorrow. In her silence, she is strength and compassion. In her silence, she is mystery and miracle. In her silence, she is beauty and impermanence.
She is wide-awakeness. She is both in and of. She is experience manifest. She is promise and birth and beginning. She is ebb and flow. She is the dance of green and yellow and pink and white and red. She is the song of birds and bees and frogs. She is the lesson of redemption and grace and new life. We must learn all her lessons again and again and again.
About Katie
From 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.
