It is What Defined Us And What Brought Us Together
When I set out yesterday for an afternoon of taking pictures, what I had in mind for a photo theme basically ended up giving me a topic for an article. My intent was to travel through south St. Louis city streets and shoot pictures of the different catholic churches but as I wandered up and down the side streets a certain familiarity hit home. Jokingly, I have always said I was baptized by trade into the catholic religion. I come from a long line of Italian heretics that coerced us into Mass on Sunday at St. Cecilia’s with a meatball dinner to follow. Most of my growing up years I really thought that is what defined me but as I traveled these city streets, stomping grounds for so many, I questioned, what really defined any of us? Was it the neighborhoods we grew up in? Was it the schools we attended? Was it the kids we played with? How did we come to be…? Looking back, I left my catholic grade school to attend a public school. It just wasn’t feasible to send me and my