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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

Alan Van Wyk

Alan Van Wyk is a writer living in St. Paul, Minnesota. With a PhD in religious studies, he writes on religion, politics, and ecology. As a recent transplant to the Midwest, he remains shocked by the fact that he lived most of his life outside the rhythm of seasons.

A day more beautiful
EssayJuly 14, 2017

A day more beautiful

By Alan Van Wyk

Photo: Sorbie Farm, Salem, OH, Hanna Family Archives (circa 1958) It was a day, her uncle said, more beautiful than it had any right…

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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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  • Jim Schmotzer
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  • Katie Houston
  • L. L. Barkat
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  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Alan Van Wyk
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  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Robert Stout
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