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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Angier Springs Monumental Work

Angier Springs Monumental Work, Tim Frank
The award-winning sculpture Angier Springs never looks the same. People walking. Sun rising. Sun falling. Wind blowing. Seasons changing. A steel forrest within “the city in a forrest.” Somehow it shifts and changes without actually shifting and changing. It is an exercise is perception and faith. It is an exercise in constancy and impermanence. It is an exercise in function and beauty.
Change is constant in a city and a forrest. Growth happen in perfect time. Life is born and dies. There is an inhale and an exhale, a falling apart and coming together, an impermanence. There is a song. Paying attention sees and hears it all. There is quiet there. Quiet in the middle of it all.
About Katie

From 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.