Weekly Wide-Awake: Here is The Beltline III

[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: Here is The Beltline III

In a few weeks we will celebrate our year living on the Beltline. The last few weeks of intentional attention have both challenged and reinforced what I know for sure.

I know for sure that sunshine is good for the soul.
I know for sure that our stories frame what we see.
I know for sure that both cities and forests are living organisms with an ebb and flow, a falling apart and coming together, a birth and death.
I know for sure that art asks us to be our best selves.
I know for sure that seasons are boundless in their power and beauty.
I know for sure that access — to art and nature and one another — is a sacred path to understanding.
I know for sure that there are a million shades of green.
I know for sure that peaches grow from blossoms on trees.
I know for sure that a rock in your shoe can be easily removed.
I know for sure that rest and breath and grace matter.

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