Kathryn Tiny

“Grief, that insidious interloper, lives at the surface,”
― Gian Sardar, When the World Goes Quiet

“And so, if I understand you correctly, you act, and you know why you act, but you don’t know why you know that you know what you do?”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Our ideas and intentions can mask and cover up a story; there is a life force that will declare itself if you let it. Get out of the way.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft

“has three steps, of which two were made with the wood of the most Holy Cross, and the third still retains the great bitterness He tasted, when He was given gall and vinegar to drink. In these three steps you will recognize three states of the soul, which I will explain to thee below. The feet of the soul, signifying her affection, are the first step, for the feet carry the body as the affection carries the soul. Wherefore these pierced Feet are steps by which thou canst arrive at His Side, which manifests to thee the secret of His Heart, because the soul, rising on the steps of her affection, commences to taste the love of His Heart, gazing into that open Heart of My Son, with the eye of the intellect, and finds It consumed with ineffable love. I say consumed, because He does not love you for His own profit, because you can be of no profit to Him, He being one and the same substance with Me. Then the soul is filled with love, seeing herself so much loved. Having passed the second step, the soul reaches out to the third—that is—to the Mouth, where she finds peace from the terrible war she has been waging with her sin. On the first step, then, lifting her feet from the affections of the earth, the soul strips herself of vice; on the second she fills herself with love and virtue; and on the third she tastes peace.”
― Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena (with Supplemental Reading: Catholic Prayers) [Illustrated]