Donald Trump and international solidarity
byI try to live close to my home in body, mind, and heart. I read our local newspaper, buy as much as I can…
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Life’s too short not to read David Dark’s book
byWe’ve highlighted our friend David Dark‘s uncanny ability to turn a provocative phrase many times over the years by featuring his words in the daily asterisk….
Eat ugly
byMy name is Eliza Greenman and I’m an orchardist, fruit explorer, public speaker, farmer activist, and sometimes consultant. I’ve been obsessed with learning about…
Beyoncé’s topology
byAs the editor of Topology Magazine, I owe a big thanks to Beyoncé for her provocative submission to our February issue on bodies. It’s…
Forget Shorter Showers
byThough first published in 2009, “Forget Shorter Showers” is perhaps even more relevant today, as we enter the sixth year of drought in California,…
Vintage Aerial
byVintage Aerial is a huge, searchable database of old aerial photographs. In the project’s own words: Our collection of over 25 million photographs spans the…
Christian meditation?
byA friend of Topology and *culture is not optional sent over a link to an essay by Christopher Harding for Aeon Magazine called “Silent…
Wendell Berry: Dismemberment
byFor those always eager for fresh words from the prophet, The Threepenny Review recently published a new short story by Wendell Berry, and it…
Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
byOver several centuries, the assumed right of Christian nations to claim ownership of any territory they “discovered” and displace the people who called that…
One-hundred-fifty-nine Spoonfuls of One Soil
byJulia Shipley, a subsistence farmer in Vermont writing for Taproot Magazine, tells the story of her journey to see Uva Turnbull’s collection of soil…