Renewing a common world
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token…
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Paris re-told
When you travel, how do you best get to know a city? How do you get at its heart, unearthing the stories laying dormant…
Read MoreIf I love you
If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see. Insofar as that is true, in that effort,…
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Small and wonderful
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2003, I speak from Three Rivers,…
Read MoreCaretaking and giving-back
To perceive the world and our life in it as gifts originating in sanctity is to see our human economy as a continuing moral…
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Finding Treasures
Three Rivers, Michigan (2016) Kim Henritzy is the owner of Centsible Treasures, a consignment shop in downtown Three Rivers, Michigan in operation since 1999….
Read MoreTheir own funeral
The prophet does not scold or reprimand. The prophet brings to public expression the dread of endings, the collapse of our self-madeness, the barriers…
Read MoreThe Fair World
Editor’s Note: World Fare, a fair trade store that many Topology-connected folks are involved in in Three Rivers, Michigan, celebrated its tenth anniversary in…
Read MoreWe must interfere
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human…
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The Heart of Small Business
Photo by Deborah Haak That really is the heart of our business: getting to know our customers and them getting to know us on…
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