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

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