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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 …

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

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