Summer
byMixed media with fiber, textile, hand-stitched batik cloth, beads, hand-made or found objects.
Huddled masses yearning
by the daily asteriskNot like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand…
Organic Fuji
by Denise Frame HarlanEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. This essay by Denise Frame Harlan on navigating a season…
Face the challenges of fear
by the daily asteriskWe must move beyond a short-term, crisis orientation and toward development of our capacity to think about social change design in terms of decades….
By the shores of Pigeon Lake
by Henry BakkerThe rhythm of farm life is shaped by the passage of the seasons. In the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario where I live, maple…
Wreckage of nations
by the daily asteriskViolence as a way of achieving [justice] is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction…
Gate A-4
by Rob Vander Giessen-ReitsmaFollowing up on the “Healing our blindness” piece we published yesterday, here’s a beautiful story from Naomi Shihab Nye on Live & Learn about how small…
Dusk Amid the Cornfield
by Brandon MarlonClad in plaid and denim overalls, the solitary figure traipses at twilight across acequias into elongated rows of husky stalks bedizened in tassels, silk…
Softening and opening
by the daily asteriskSuffering, of course, can lead you in either of two directions: It can make you very bitter and close you down, or it can…
Healing our blindness
by Rob Vander Giessen-ReitsmaAs I write, I’m sitting in my living room watching football on a Sunday evening. I just finished eating a meal made with organic…