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      The violence of frenzy
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      The sound of roots
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      Summer’s lease
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      Deep Roots
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      Hope and Expectation
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      No Trespassing
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    • Volume 1
      • 0.1 Intro
      • 1.1 Margins
      • 1.2 Living with the Seasons
      • 1.3 Thriftiness
      • 1.4 Noise and Silence
      • 1.5 Bodies
      • 1.6 Transportation
      • 1.7 Waterways
      • 1.8 My Economy
      • 1.9 Sharing Food
      • 1.10 Coming and Going
    • 2.1 Labor
    • 2.2 Bridges
    • 2.3 Shops & Stores
    • 2.4 The Darkest Night
    • 2.5 Sabbath
    • 2.6 Local Government
    • 2.7 Solastalgia
    • 2.8 Borders & Boundaries
    • 2.9 Play

David Stewart

David Stewart is a man who lives in Three Rivers, Michigan. He wakes up smiling everyday.

Bridge over the Illinois
EssayOctober 17, 2016

Bridge over the Illinois

By David Stewart

I’m driving on highway 29 in rural Illinois. This is the Midwest. When you travel here, you drive through corn and soybean fields. You…

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Less is more
EtceteraJune 30, 2016

Less is more

By David Stewart

When I watch Naturali Tea—one of the final nominees in the 2016 Real Food Films competition—its lush greenery and charming pastoral vistas give rise…

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About Topology

Topology Magazine

Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

Contributors

  • Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • Deborah Haak
  • Henry Bakker
  • Elisabeth Wenger
  • Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • S. Alexandra Harper
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  • the daily asterisk
  • Marjorie Maddox
  • Alex Joyner
  • Katie Hoogendam
  • Karissa Knox Sorrell
  • William Overbeeke
  • Amy Carpenter-Leugs
  • Laura Menze
  • Naomi Wenger
  • Alex Quick
  • Bethany Beachum
  • Tom Springer
  • Deborah Lewis
  • Aline Lindemann
  • Bill Boerman-Cornell
  • Scott Peterson
  • Carol Stephen
  • Uche Ogbuji
  • Kathryn T. Jones
  • Raechelle Kennedy
  • Brett Beasley
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  • Randy Smit
  • J.C. Elkin
  • Christine Darragh
  • Sylvia Keesmaat
  • Denise Frame Harlan
  • David Stewart
  • Ingrid Lochamire
  • Amy Nemecek
  • Monica Sharman
  • Joy Riggs
  • Peter Freedman-Doan
  • Nora Kirkham
  • Gail Heffner
  • Elisabeth McClanahan
  • Luke Johnston
  • John Pierce
  • John Davis Jr.
  • Lisa Witz
  • Alek Frost
  • Ian Randall Wilson
  • Brother Abraham Newsom
  • Chris Bullard
  • Katie Karnehm-Esh
  • Robert Andy Coombs
  • Neil E. Das
  • A. Non
  • Jeff Gundy
  • Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Alexa Shearer
  • Mike Wilson
  • Cat Dixon
  • Rachel Marie Stone
  • Ruth Asher
  • Kierstan Barbre
  • Lea Page
  • Geneva Langeland
  • Tamra Carraher
  • Nathan Van Hoff
  • Kathy Fenton-Miller
  • Samuel J. Fox
  • Wm. Anthony Connolly
  • Clinton Inman
  • Heidi Fettig Parton
  • Joyce H. Munro
  • Joel Schueler
  • Sophie Blanc
  • Christopher Smith
  • Celine B. Roque
  • Elisavietta Ritchie
  • Andy Rogers
  • Denise Vredevoogd
  • Gary Guthrie
  • Jerry Berrigan
  • Nate Al Attas-Bradford
  • Erin O'Connor-Garcia
  • Kurt Armstrong
  • Aaron Nell
  • Nathaniel Harper-Brees
  • Amy Hetletvedt
  • Stefanie Möser Zitö
  • Ann Klotz
  • Nicole Carlin
  • Griffin Paul Jackson
  • Kate Bowman-Johnston
  • John Yohe
  • Katie Rendon Kahn
  • Chris Fuller
  • Amanda Cleary Eastep
  • Marylu Dykstra
  • Mike Finley
  • Katie Houston
  • Mark Andrew Heathcote
  • Jeremy Huggins
  • Kendall Vanderslice
  • Karen Fitz La Barge
  • Emily Ulmer
  • Josh MacIvor-Andersen
  • Stephanie Nikolopoulos
  • Barbara Ruth
  • Hardeep Sabharwal
  • Grant Elgersma
  • Kristina England
  • Kendra Stanton Lee
  • Jacqueline Ristola
  • Lynne S. Viti
  • Jennifer Monroe
  • Zach Bartz
  • Brandon Marlon
  • Robert Stout
  • Travis Poling
  • Larry Kamphausen
  • Jeff Santosuosso
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Julie Keefer
  • L. L. Barkat
  • Vincent A. Cellucci
  • Erica Schemper
  • Michael Knowles
  • Amie Adams
  • Rick Kempa
  • Jennifer Crow
  • Alan Van Wyk
  • Matt Prater
  • Sara Sterley
  • Debra Dieppa
  • Ben Brazil
  • Thomas Swann
  • Amy Oestreicher
  • Devon Balwit
  • Jacob Miller
  • D.S. Leiter
  • Amanda Hiland
  • Lee Hull Moses
  • Donald Illich
  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Jim Schmotzer
  • Carolyn Adams
  • Valerie Bacharach
  • Nate Maxson
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • Matthew Landrum
  • Larry-Michael Hackenberg
  • Jill McDonough
  • Daniel Silliman
  • Heather Hutchison
  • Eileen R. Kinch
  • Lynn White
  • Sam Gesch
  • Jennifer Hernandez
  • Lindsy Wallace
  • Jacque Rowe Fields
  • Christie Walkuski
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Christopher Smit
  • June Mears Driedger
  • Ched Myers
  • Laura Fabrycky
  • Lorraine Caputo
  • Amelia Rhodes
  • Daniel Roy Connelly
  • Jennifer Martelli
  • Danielle Germaine
  • Katie Reich
  • Nina Bannett
  • Lauren Wayne
  • Mary Ann Honaker
  • Hannah Thyberg
  • Jeff Burt
  • Gail Walters
  • Claire Ibarra
  • Gwen DiPietro
  • Michael Penny
  • Catherine Woodiwiss
  • Shawndra Miller
  • Matthew Deames
  • Kenneth Arthur
  • Rob Testing

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