{"id":3463,"date":"2017-04-24T18:26:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T18:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:31","slug":"wabash-magazine-winter-2017-getting-to-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2017\/04\/24\/wabash-magazine-winter-2017-getting-to-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"WM Winter 2017: “Getting to the Good”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea for this edition of WM<\/em> began with a single word\u2014\u201cadoption\u201d\u2014but at its core, the theme of this issue is a mixture of loss, family, and faith.<\/h4>\n

And gathering stories for these pages, we\u2019ve seen and heard wonders. Professor Bobby Horton calls it \u201cgetting to the good; getting to what a family is.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Horton, such moments come when he visits his daughter Maesa\u2019s fourth-grade class to help them with their spelling, or when he first learned to put her hair in a wrap.<\/p>\n

For Tara and Scott Smalstig \u201988, it\u2019s their daughter Athena\u2019s insistence on giving everyone in the family a hug goodnight and saying, \u201cI love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Nate Quinn \u201900, whose family abandoned him at age 15, the very word “family” is charged with absence; turning from despair, he makes art from loss. \u201cGetting to the good\u201d for Quinn is captured in the lyrics of the late Daryl Coley\u2019s song \u201cWhen Sunday Comes\u201d: I won\u2019t have to cry no more \/ Jesus will soothe my troubled mind \/ all of my heartaches will be left behind \/ when Sunday comes.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNot having family, I threw myself into my art,\u201d Quinn says. \u201c<\/em>My paintings are my family, it seems. That is what gives me solace.\u201d<\/p>\n

We wouldn\u2019t have learned any of this if not for the candor and generosity of the alumni, professors, and families who let us into their hearts and homes and trusted us to tell their stories. Through them we offer here a glimpse of what \u201cliving humanely\u201d looks like in the most essential work a person does.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s work done through love and faith. The latter need not be religious, but all these folks share a belief that, as Horton says, \u201cwe are all in this together\u201d and will \u201calways be there for each other.\u201d And that this work together ultimately makes a difference.<\/p>\n

\u2014Steve Charles, editor<\/em><\/p>\n

Video footage by Adam Phipps, edited by Ben Cramer \u201918<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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