For Catholics and Christians, we enter the holiest week of
the year, starting today with Palm Sunday and concluding a week later with
Easter Sunday. The Palm Sunday Mass is among the most lengthy of the year.
During the Mass this afternoon, our daughter Natalie fashioned crosses out of
the palms (as you can see). This gave me chills and reminded me of my youth,
when my grandmother would do the same thing. She would hand the palm/crosses
out and implored us all to put smaller ones in the glove box of the car for
good luck and safety while driving. Why did this give me chills? Natalie was
named after my grandmother, my father’s mother, who lived downstairs in our
house growing up. Somehow, some way this symmetry was eerily neat, and you
would like to think that somewhere on high, the original Natalie Colaizzo is
smiling down on us all.
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