Constance Malloy's The Burning Hearth Blog

Thanks so much for reading and sharing, Melissa. ❤️🤗❤️Looking forward to catching up next week. And to giving my friend her pots. She's going to love them!🍵🍩❤️

“…it is these stories that bind me to their better selves.”

A poignant post by the wonderful @theburninghearth.bsky.social.❤️❤️❤️

I loved this collection so much!

My Taoist inspired thought for the day!

Children do not get in the way, they are the way.

I'm sure I will!!!

I have pre-ordered my copy!

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More and more this seems like the book of the year both because it's wonderful and because its message is so crystal clear. bookshop.org/p/books/one-...

You're going to love these stories! Preorders available at www.storymagazine.org/store/summer.... #shortstories, #fiction, #flashfiction

Residencies and Retreats - Write On Door County RESIDENCies and retreats In addition to the Writing Center, directly across the street, Write On has a three-bedroom home – a place of solitude and reflection on nearly 59 acres of woods, orchards and...

Check out this incredible residency at Write On, Door Co in the beautiful Door Co. of Wisconsin. Two weeks, travel stipend, and food money. Amazing!!!

I've had 2 residencies here and have another one coming up Aug. of 26. Only good things happen here! ❤️❤️❤️

writeondoorcounty.org/residency/

Loved this!

"My goal that day was intimacy — the tactile, olfactory, visual, and sonic details of what, to most people in my culture, would appear to be a wasteland."

Everything Kimmerer says refreshes my spirit and gives me hope. There are people on this planet who know what to do. We need to listen to them.

"Evolution would not produce such a messed-up system that breaks all the ecological laws. A species who tried that strategy would go extinct! Just saying."

Thanks, Lisa. I love that quote you pulled!!!

"When I ran away as a 19 year old, I got into Minneapolis right after sundown. It was a very real moment for me. The sun leaving and saying you’re on your own now, kid."
- Al Kratz

@theburninghearth.bsky.social does a wonderful interview of @alkratz.bsky.social on his latest book, T is for Train.

Thanks so much, Kristin. Hopefully, we can meet up soon. ❤️

So excited to see @willalex.bsky.social upcoming book Sunward on this list. I had to pre-order!

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Oh, I'm so excited for you! It's just one of those books that I'm so happy to be reading, and I get excited for others to read.

the transcript of the conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate is up: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...

I'm reading the book and loving it! Loved the interview, too.

This is an amazing interview!

A section from an interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, where interviewer David Naimon cites Le Guin, having stated that resistance and change often begin in art, which often begins in the art of words. Le Guin replies, stating that dictators are always afraid of poets.

Love this from the last section of the interview on poetry. I've definitely seen this as the reaction to things here, on Bluesky.

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“… I am reminded that I have inherited, incorporated, suffered, and freed myself from my parents’ legacy so that my daughter can know something different.”

Connie ❤️

this In Memory of, this Goodbye, from @theburninghearth.bsky.social constancemalloy.com/2025/07/26/t...

Thank you for reading, sharing and for your support. ❤️

"While I have survived inarguably difficult (and on occasion traumatic) times with my parents, it is these stories that bind me to their better selves."

I love this piece of writing so much by @theburninghearth.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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The Past is Unlocked in the Passing of My Parents In Memory of a Marriage: July 1950 – July 1985 There are two stories regarding my parents’ wedding that I’ve heard many times. Both from my mother. My father never spoke of it to …

Unexpectedly, my mother passed away on 7/22. But more than just my mother passed away. ❤️ I've written a memorial to both of my parents and their marriage. I believe they are now in a place where they finally feel safe to open their hearts and let love in.

constancemalloy.com/2025/07/26/t...

As always, ❤️🙏❤️!

A is for Al: An Interview with Al Kratz Welcome to The Burning Hearth! I’m so happy you’ve stopped by for this interview with my friend and writing group fellow, Al Kratz. Al and I met several years ago via an online Bending …

"....how can a piece of writing be like a painting? How can it be like dancing? How can it be like a muted trumpet solo?"

Allen Kratz with @theburninghearth.bsky.social

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constancemalloy.com/2025/07/15/a...

Tales of the Post-Post-Apocalyptic, Public Books I’m happy to have contributed a new essay to the “No Future Lexicon” series commissioned over at Public Books, “a magazine of ideas, art, and scholarship,” with Matthe…

Check out this post and essay by @ekostories.bsky.social on the post-post-apocalyptic.

ekostories.com/2025/07/22/t...

I love the pots in this picture. Might be wanting one of those soon.❤️