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

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