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

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