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I'm a cartographer and a Quaker. I think the two are related, and the common threads seem to be a regular theme here. This blog started out exploring what it means to make maps—the ontology of cartography. Then I spent some serious time working on issues surrounding theological diversity among Quakers. Lately it's become even more freeform, though I'm still interested in both these areas.

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Dual belonging

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Apparently I'm going to be on the radio in a couple weeks. The topic for the radio show is "dual belonging," or how to be par...
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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Backwaters

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I was walking along the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis in the summer of 2010, and the group that made this film was grabbing random peop...
Friday, March 3, 2017

To build the bridge, first survey the canyon.

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So there was this video, which pro wrestler John Cena did for the No Labels campaign and the Ad Council. It was released in July 2016. ...
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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Voices, late 2014

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The fierce voice that argues. Eloquently laid out thoughts crystalizing hard and unswerving. Experience laid out incontrovertible. An argum...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Mapping the Holocaust

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The keynote speaker at NACIS 2014 described (along with her students) a recent project to map Holocaust survivors stories, and in so doing ...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Commodities and Experts, Part 2

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[Edited for clarity, October 11] It’s respectable—a mark of prestige—to say you are a professional. We still talk about “the professions,...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Commodities and Experts, Part 1

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Hearing Sandeep Jauhar interviewed by Terry Gross yesterday about the changing world of being a physician got me thinking about something t...
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natcase
Minneapolis, MN, United States
In May of 2013, my wife Ingrid and I formed INCase, LLC to support our professional work of writing and design, and I left Hedberg Maps after 22 years as head of production. In my non-professional life I am a member of Twin Cities Friends Meeting and Laughing Waters Preparative Meeting, and Ramsey's Braggarts morris dance team, and organize sings at Merlins Rest pub in Minneapolis.
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