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Souvenirs Tell Stories — Part 10: Warm Stories
We have a comforter in our home that is over 35 years old. I know that for a fact because this comforter was a gift we received at a baby shower in 1985 when Barbara was pregnant for our first child, Maria.
This three-color comforter is off white, gray, and burgundy and is big enough to easily cover a king-size bed. Through the years, we have used that comforter on our bed during the cold winter months in upstate New York. We have also used it in our guest bedroom. And we often have had it draped over the couch in our living room, so if one of us wants to take an afternoon nap, we can easily pull that comforter down over us for both warmth and comfort.
The words “warmth” and “comfort” apply perfectly to this comforter because the two women who together crafted it for us were two of the warmest people I have ever known, and both of them had a unique way of making everyone around them feel comfortable.
I am speaking of two Carondelet Sisters of St. Joseph: Sister Concetta Cuscianna, who passed away in 2017, and sister Claudia Marie Amrod, who passed away just last week. I haven’t seen either one of them since 1986, but we taught together in a small…
