Lucky enough
I’m lucky to work with people who are not just talented but fun to spend the day with—which is probably more than they can…
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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…
Read MoreEmbedded in a community
Any job that can be scaled up, depersonalized, and made to answer to forces remote from the scene of work is vulnerable to degradation,…
Read MoreAmbitious Agriculturalist
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 …
Read MoreAnd just loved
Our problem—may I include you?—is that we don’t know how to start, how to just close our eyes and let something dance between our…
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Monk’s best friend
We are blessed with beautiful and functional architecture here at St. Gregory’s Abbey, and we are grateful to our supporters around the world who…
Read MoreFaithful lovers
By its divine nature, love is wildly, wonderfully generous. Out of love God made the world, and so the world reflects love’s generosity. As…
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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…
Read MoreDo what has to be done
The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out…
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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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