Weekly Wide-Awake: Cover Me In Sunshine

[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.

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Maxine Greene

Philosopher and Education Scholar

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Weekly Wide-Awake: Cover Me In Sunshine

Cover me in sunshine
Shower me with good times
Tell me that the world’s been spinning since the beginning
And everything will be alright
Cover me in sunshine
from Pink and Willow Sage Hart, “Cover Me In Sunshine”

This week I welcome spring. I welcome new life, rebirth, waking up, potential, and green. I welcome sunshine and light. Listen to Pink and her daughter Willow Sage Hart sing, “Cover Me In Sunshine.” Listen to Jimmy Cliff sing “I Can See Clearly Now.” Thoreau’s essay, “Walking.” reminds me of the beauty and necessity of being in the nature world. That seems particularly important in spring.

As my month reading and writing about the poetry of Mary Oliver draws to a close, I accept her “Invitation” to “Blossom” in “Spring.” Read our thoughts.

My latest Elephant Journal essay, Gratitude On Fire, was published this first week of spring, too.