[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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from “Epistle to the Efficience”
An experiment in stillness isn’t death, its/ an attempt toward season.
Aditi Machado
Life is an experiment in stillness — moving between falling apart and back together. Between falling, seasons happen. Life happens. Efficience happens. Stillness happens.
I want to reclaim the word efficience. I want to snatch it from the jaws of those who view life in terms of widgets and lug nuts and gears. I want to focus a light on efficience as a means to live, create, and thrive. I want to understand efficience as kind, wholistic, and humane. In that way, efficience explodes boundaries like shape and productivity.
What is an attempt toward season? An attempt to understand change. An attempt to hear my still small voice. An attempt to understand perfect time — like days and tides and phases of the moon — which are interdependent and define true efficiency.
Perhaps stillness is our capacity to understand interdependence. Perhaps chaos is separation from one another.
My epistle to the efficience would talk about my desire to balance paying attention and keeping perspective. My epistle to the efficience would seek to glorify inefficience and extol the virtue and importance of rest, planning, deliberation, editing, change, failure, science, and celebration. My epistle to the efficience would say thank you for inspiration, motivation, rhythm, routine, and resolution. My epistle to the efficience understands efficience in terms of ages and generations.
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.
