House on the Hill
It’s been a year now since the big move. Up and off the farm we did go after living upon the family homestead for over 40 years. We’d never really […]
Entries by Alyssa Tasto
Daily Meditation for February 18, 2025
A child looking at a stain-glass window which depicted a saint defined the figure as “someone who lets the light shine through.” The change from multiple grains of sand to […]
Daily Meditation for February 17, 2025
At the wedding at Cana, Mary and Jesus each say something fairly ordinary to the servers: “Do whatever he tells you,” and “Fill the jars with water.” From the servers’ […]
Daily Meditation for February 14, 2025
A few years ago, there was a bookstore in Minneapolis called The Hungry Mind. That is a perfect name for a bookstore and also for the eager, insatiable desire to […]
Daily Meditation for February 13, 2025
During the recent political campaign, one of the candidates frequently disparaged “unmarried cat ladies.” To one of this group, this seems to be a good opportunity to reflect on how […]
Daily Meditation for February 12, 2025
The number of catalogues that arrive in the mail daily remind us that we NEED to buy something, anything, NOW! The urge to acquire is like an itch that will […]
Seventy-Year-Old Love
Valentine’s Day. I am musing about many of the images of valentines: hearts, candies, flowers and a sense that the valentine recipients are young. Their love is romantic, fresh; often […]
Daily Meditation for February 11, 2025
What do YOU think when you hear the following words: “We need to compose our lives,” OR “Love across differences,” OR “Don’t lose a sense of wonder”? Is there really […]
Daily Meditation for February 10, 2025
It was a Liturgy of the Word Celebration at the parish shortly after Christmas and what I thought would be the perfect topic with the wiggly Latino kids participating: favorite […]
Daily Meditation for February 7, 2025
What do we do in the Upper Midwest when spring fever hits in February? We look at our backyard garden or across the frozen fields and know it will be […]
