
Faithful Enough
There is a silence a man can hold by putting his hands inside an engine. Noah Smith has been holding it for forty years — through the night his first wife was taken away, through Sunday services he never once missed, through kitchen tables where his sons waited for a father who was always in the other room. He is holding it still, in a place he would never have believed in, because the work is still the work, and the work is all he has.







