Weekly Wide-Awake: Now Is

[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: Now Is

This is now. Now is. Don’t/postpone till then. Spend// the spark of iron on stone./ Sit at the head of the table;/ dip your spoon in the bowl./ Seat yourself next your joy// and have your awakened soul/ pour wine. Branches in the// spring wind, easy dance of/ jasmine and cypress. Cloth for green robes has been cut from pure absence. You’re// the tailor, settled among his/ shop goods, quietly sewing.
Rumi

New Years call for beginnings. New Years call for sewing. New Years call for now.

Clean slates are the power of now. Open hearts are the power of now. Courage is the power of now.

What would it look like if we lived in the now? Right now. In this New Year. In this very moment with everything happening all around us.

Thank you Rumi for the words reminding us that now is.

Weekly Wide-Awake: Now Is

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