Summer
Mixed media with fiber, textile, hand-stitched batik cloth, beads, hand-made or found objects.
Read More1.2 Living with the Seasons
Huddled masses yearning
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand…
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Organic Fuji
Editor’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…
Read MoreFace the challenges of fear
We must move beyond a short-term, crisis orientation and toward development of our capacity to think about social change design in terms of decades….
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By the shores of Pigeon Lake
The rhythm of farm life is shaped by the passage of the seasons. In the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario where I live, maple…
Read MoreWreckage of nations
Violence as a way of achieving [justice] is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction…
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Gate A-4
Following 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…
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Dusk Amid the Cornfield
Clad in plaid and denim overalls, the solitary figure traipses at twilight across acequias into elongated rows of husky stalks bedizened in tassels, silk…
Read MoreSoftening and opening
Suffering, of course, can lead you in either of two directions: It can make you very bitter and close you down, or it can…
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Healing our blindness
As I write, I’m sitting in my living room watching football on a Sunday evening. I just finished eating a meal made with organic…
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