Navigating family history
Editor’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
Editor’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…
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Being Bethlehem
I. O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by. Yet…
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Picapedreros
Steep green hills abruptly give way to a sloped clearing, octopus-like, its tentacles twisting through thick growth and dwindling into impassable crevices among brambles…
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Muscle and bone
I 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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Untitled
Tucson, Arizona (2014) New birth of any kind does not come without pain and effort. It was a privilege to capture the painful journey…
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Fidelity and fecundity
Editor’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…
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The labor that bore me
I have birthed four children. Any mother will tell you that birth is a labor of love and insist that the memory of the…
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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…
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We are mirrors born in labor
I 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…
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