Navigating family history
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2007, Chris Fuller reflects on his nautical…
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Achieving rest
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2012, Brett Beasley explores what he’s…
Being Bethlehem
byI. O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by. Yet…
Picapedreros
bySteep green hills abruptly give way to a sloped clearing, octopus-like, its tentacles twisting through thick growth and dwindling into impassable crevices among brambles…
Muscle and bone
byI was sitting at the kitchen table on a rare lazy Saturday morning—no swimming lessons, no birthday parties, no sleepovers. My wife was still…
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byTucson, Arizona (2014) New birth of any kind does not come without pain and effort. It was a privilege to capture the painful journey…
Fidelity and fecundity
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2009, Gary Guthrie explores the fruit…
The labor that bore me
byI have birthed four children. Any mother will tell you that birth is a labor of love and insist that the memory of the…
1974: Making Beds at the Days Inn
byFifteen 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…
We are mirrors born in labor
byI grew up knowing only one of my grandfathers. My father’s father worked in the laundry business—hot work with vapors rising even on a…