[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: Song For Autumn
“Don’t you imagine the leaves dream now
Mary Oliver
how comfortable it will be to touch
the earth instead of the
nothingness of the air and the endless
freshets of wind?”
As the dew point drops on my morning runs, I am reminded of the seasons changing. I love fall. I always have. I miss fall. It never gets cold in Miami. (Where I currently live.) Trees don’t really lose their leaves in the same way they do where I grew up in Louisville. The dew point falling, and a general shift in what is blooming, is what I celebrate right now, here. Mary Oliver’s Song For Autumn reminds me to connect and celebrate fall, right now.
I sang my own Song For Autumn this week. I sought to understand what sufficient means for me. I have considered bodhisattva as I seek connection rather than conflict. I thought about Malcolm Gladwell’s Law of the Few on my path to connect. I have connected with harvest rituals of my past, and thought about what gentle means in our current world. That is all part of my Song for Autumn.
About Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
