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.
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
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from Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus

Love creates small medallions of universality.
Signe Gjessing
What are medallions of universality? Are they artifacts of acts of love that connect? Are they details of acts of love that we, each one of us, deeply understand? Are they stories that guide us to one another? Are they moments of awe or joy or wonder that teach us how the universe enfolds us all? Are they bricks and mortar, the foundation of all we need to know and remember?
About Katie

From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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