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

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