Weekly Wide-Awake: Intuition

[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: Intuition

“Okay, and so then you hawk all your guitars you trade them all in for the nice mics, and there was that word that I’ve been trying to figure out about you. And the only thing I can figure out about you in my head, and this is the researcher part of me that I can’t turn off, is this quote from The Alchemist, which is so weirdly the twins’ favorite book. “Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected and we are able to know everything because it has all been written then.”
— Brené Brown
From an “Unlocking Us” conversation between Brandi Carlile and Brené Brown, on Music, Mysticism, and Broken Horses

I am fascinated by intuition. I believe in it, for sure. I am not sure what it is? I am not sure how it happens? Intuition gets a bad rap when we relegate our innate capacity for deep understanding to a place of voodoo nothingness. Which I don’t agree with. I believe in a still small voice. I believe in gut feelings. I believe in a sixth sense. So, I am exploring intuition and the power it holds.

In an “Unlocking Us” conversation between Brandi Carlile and Brené Brown, on Music, Mysticism, and Broken Horses, Brené Brown quotes Paolo Coelho saying intuition is the sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

In an “On Being” conversation between Joy Harjo and Krista Tippett, “The Whole of Time.” Harjo describes an intuition of dreams and story. Through Harjo, I connect wisdom and intuition. We are born with intuition and return to intuition.

In weaving together the thoughts and work of Cullors, Novogratz, and Godin, intuition becomes an active process of practice, questions, service.