The Refugee’s Roots
If you ask me How many houses I have changed till now, I would not reply. But I can tell you About the comforts…
Read More2.10 Roots
Knowing where
Knowing who we are and knowing where we are are intimately linked. Gary Snyder qtd. in Shaping the Sierra
Read More
The gift of the fungi
For months now, apocalyptic anxiety has propelled me from my bed in the wee hours. Not doing enough! Hell in a handbasket! Time is…
Read More
Hope and Expectation
Tholen, Zeeland, The Netherlands (2017) First a little backstory: this spring I got to revisit Tholen, Zeeland, the town in the Netherlands where my…
Read MoreThe public
The nation is a recent innovation. In the Middle Ages, allegiance was owed to the lord, or the city, or both, and by extension…
Read More
Waiting for the rising
Editor’s note: Due to server issues this week, our throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine, is being published on Friday. In this essay from…
Read More
A day more beautiful
Photo: Sorbie Farm, Salem, OH, Hanna Family Archives (circa 1958) It was a day, her uncle said, more beautiful than it had any right…
Read MoreThe price of restoration
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least…
Read MoreWillingness to acknowledge
Accountability is the willingness to acknowledge that we have participated in creating, through commission or omission, the conditions that we wish to see changed….
Read MoreTo plant is to wait
To plant is to wait. To wonder. To patiently care for fragile plants. It’s often tiresome and tedious. It’s counter to most experiences in…
Read More