The Fair World
byEditor’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…
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…
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…
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…
Again, I ask the young, bright in muscles and orange hats as they stack concrete and lean away from the river to plant their…
“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….
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…
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 …
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…
“So when Roosevelt reiterated, ‘Can you hide $2 billion for a secret project that we hope will end the war?’ Senator McKellar deftly replied,…
I can read floors like others read books, the tile or terrazo or carpet speak volumes. How much foot traffic has trod past, if…