The Lay of the Time Kettle
“The Time Kettle—few have seen it.” It is a tiny speck of a vessel, and yet it carries the flame for the entire universe. It is grand,...
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Alex Muck
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
On Allyship and Exhaustion
Why does everything happen so much all the time?
Do plants have desire?
Yes. For sun, for water.
For questions.
Alex Muck
- Nov 20, 2020
- 11 min
On Love, Luck, and Internal Archeology.
I’ve spent the last few months, bloody knuckled, in the dirt, excavating ceramic vases that are thousands of years old.
Metaphorically.
Alex Muck
- Sep 16, 2020
- 4 min
On Love, Death, and Geometry.
What would it be like, she wondered, to watch someone else love my friend? No. Not like that. Get your mind out of that gutter. I will...
Alex Muck
- Sep 11, 2020
- 3 min
A Unique and Powerful Magic
On toilet paper, and other mass produced art processes.
Alex Muck
- Aug 28, 2020
- 5 min
On Time, Longing, and Money.
If our work is about love, a business-like,
"How much will you do this for?" becomes a reverent, "What do we each desire right now?"
Alex Muck
- May 20, 2020
- 2 min
In Praise of Wednesday Brunch
Wednesday is the sandwich-center day
Smushed between days of doing
and the hands that hold them.
Alex Muck
- Mar 17, 2020
- 7 min
Making Love With Fear
When your instincts are informed by your healthy fear, you’ll have hundreds of options – and if you let it, your fear will help you choose.
Alex Muck
- Mar 17, 2020
- 1 min
Love is Stubborn
Here's a story I told recently at "Love, Really." a community storytelling event about the MANY different kinds of love.
Alex Muck
- Feb 7, 2020
- 2 min
For the Resting Hearts of Winter Women.
A poem for my winter women's Gateless salon.
Alex Muck
- Jan 30, 2020
- 3 min
The Dance Story
I started dancing the fall before I started college. Every Thursday I would meet a friend of mine at a gas station part-way to...
Alex Muck
- Jul 31, 2019
- 3 min
The Writing Story - A Welcome Letter
We deserve gentleness when it comes to our writing. Simply because we exist, and choose, gorgeously, courageously, daily, to not be dead.
Alex Muck
- May 3, 2019
- 2 min
A Half-Dozen Truly Delightful Artists.
My dears, I've written to you before about my somewhat aversive relationship with social media. I got on Instagram earlier this spring,...
Alex Muck
- Mar 2, 2019
- 3 min
5 Reasons Why Thank You Cards Are the Best
1. They make people happy. This is definitely reason number one. I love the feeling of writing out a card and knowing that this is...
Alex Muck
- Feb 13, 2019
- 5 min
Earth Laughs in Snowfall
[To be read in the chilly voice of Winter. Click here if you'd like to listen along.] I noticed her herbal tea bag tag said, “Earth...
Alex Muck
- Feb 7, 2019
- 7 min
Lessons From My Time as a Circus Elephant
I've spent years of my life as a circus elephant. It may be something we have in common. There’s a parable* about a circus elephant that...
Alex Muck
- Jul 16, 2018
- 1 min
In Praise of Epiphany-Inducing Words
I am delighted by words that make sense, especially when I take their sense-making for granted until a moment of epiphany, when it's...
Alex Muck
- Jul 13, 2018
- 3 min
On Learning and Long-Game Gifts
When I was younger, my Grammie gave me a watercolor painting set as a gift. It was previously used, but seemed very official to my...
Alex Muck
- Jun 26, 2018
- 2 min
Some Wonderful Poems
In no particular order, here are some poems I very much enjoy and hope you will, too. "So don’t waste my time and your curses on verses...