The Fair World
Editor’s Note: World Fare, a fair trade store that many Topology-connected folks are involved in in Three Rivers, Michigan, celebrated its tenth anniversary in…
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@ Lorenzo the Magnificent Lego Experience Shop, Florence
A knee-high verdigris multi-levelled Michelangelo David wedges open the door. Inside, an empire. Between the shelves of self-assembly Ponte Vecchio kits and the huge…
Read MoreThe JC Penney Advertisment
shouts 4-Hour Doorbusters in headliner arrogance above the full-color page of bras jutting out at any middle-aged onlooker unaware of ironic intent. My six-year-old daughter…
Read MoreRelocation: The Building of the Dyke Levee
Again, I ask the young, bright in muscles and orange hats as they stack concrete and lean away from the river to plant their…
Read MoreBuilding
“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon….the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.” – H….
Read MoreBridging the Ontario Mississippi
Spring, 1823 John Hays, night-crossing, canoed over the falls. Death by swift black current. Men crossed the river with the seasons: by boat, by ford, or over…
Read MoreAmbitious Agriculturalist
Do anything, but let it produce joy. Walt Whitman the tomato farmer’s wife waits for seed babies in Mariachi windows rad warmed roots thinned …
Read More1974: Making Beds at the Days Inn
Fifteen and one serious corner-tucker, frame-duster, every-inch-of-the-toilet scrubber, I rose at 6:00 a.m. and hitched a ride with my older neighbor, just sixteen and…
Read MoreOak Ridge
“So when Roosevelt reiterated, ‘Can you hide $2 billion for a secret project that we hope will end the war?’ Senator McKellar deftly replied,…
Read MoreStare
I can read floors like others read books, the tile or terrazo or carpet speak volumes. How much foot traffic has trod past, if…
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