Meet Abbie Daigle: Arts & Culture Editor

If you ever had a conversation with Abbie Daigle, she would probably ask you what kind of music you enjoy listening to. In fact, she would love to ask you that question, because one thing she wishes more people knew about her is how much she appreciates meaningful conversations. While she leans on the quiet side, talking to others means the world to her, even if it seems like an insignificant discussion.

Sixteen-year-old Abbie is returning to clay for her second year with the magazine, this time as one of the Arts & Culture Editors. Abbie chose this position because she appreciates the diversity of this section with its multitude of columns and unique perspectives on individual topics. During her senior year, her TPS courses will include AP Psychology, Drawing 1, and College Creative Writing, but she is also taking Composition and Calculus with other providers.

Aside from school, Abbie enjoys listening to music, reading books, and solving Rubik’s Cubes—her favorite artist is twenty one pilots, and her current cubing record is 57 seconds. Also, her favorite animal is sheep; during Abbie’s baby shower, a lady from her grandmother’s church gifted her a stuffed sheep, and Abbie “didn’t let go of it for the first year or two of her life.” Because people saw her with it all the time, they gave her more stuffed sheep, and by the time she was 5 or 6, she had so many stuffed sheep that she took a look around her and decided that sheep were her favorite animal. Abbie’s favorite word is defenestrate, “because it has a very specific meaning. It means to throw somebody out of a window.” Her least favorite food is mushrooms, but if she had to eat them she would chop them up, put them in sauce, and eat them with pasta.

Last in this list of superlatives is Abbie’s favorite Bible passage, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” These verses remind her that whatever she is facing in the moment will not last forever because God is bigger than all of our troubles, and His glory is far more eternal than what we will encounter on Earth.

Photo Credit: Abbie Daigle