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

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