3 weeks with käthe

Jul 13, 2026

sweeties i have been thinking about how to write this piece for a few days now (yeap before even completing part iii) & i keep starting & deleting because everything i write sounds like i am trying to wrap something up neatly & truth is i can’t wrap this up neatly because käthe is still living in my head & i do naut think she is leaving anytime soon.

so i am just going to tell u what happened

i wrote 3 pieces about her. it took more than 3 weeks. i cried more than i expected. i checked & rechecked everything because i did naut want to tell u internet’s version of her, i wanted to tell u her & those r two very different things darlings & thee distance between them took time to cross. i went to sleep thinking about her. i woke up thinking about her. i would be in the middle of something completely unrelated & suddenly i would remember that she knelt beside a stone version of herself at her son’s grave then stood up, went home, kept working & i would have to stop whatever i was doing. sit with that for a while!!

i do naut know how to explain what spending these weeks inside someone’s life does to u. it is naut like reading about them. it is something closer to living alongside them, watching them make decisions, watching things get taken from them, watching them pick up their tools anyway. & by thee end of it käthe felt less like a historical figure & more like someone i had been sitting with in a room. someone whose face i knew. someone i knew. may be don’t know…….. who knows!!

here r these three pieces sweeties. if u r coming to käthe for thee first time, start with part 1 & let her find u similarly as she found me. if u have already read them, i hope coming back gives u something u missed first time