[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: Oneness
Basic human contact – the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words – is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
Martha Beck
I believe in interdependence and ubuntu. I believe in a consciousness that connects us all and creates magic. I believe that the more we pay attention the more oneness we experience. I believe in oneness muscles that strengthen over time as we look inward and reach outward. Just as human contact is to the psyche as oxygen is to the brain, oneness is the heart of our journey.
In this Weekly Wide-Awake, I have chosen to highlight exercises from the Wild New World course and a few poems. There is poetry in oneness like imagination and kindness. There is prose in oneness like compassion and empathy. There is detail in the way we share with strangers, as we learn there are no strangers. There is beauty as difference vibrates and moves and dances in a celebration of oneness. This is the living journey toward the wild new world.
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.
