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Do Not Believe in Walls (Quote by Jörg Zink)
By Polly Castor on December 23, 2025Read moreIf we open them and enter, we can unlock ourselves, too, and so await whatever is coming to free...
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Best Books of the Year (Reading Challenge Summary)
By Polly Castor on December 22, 2025Read moreI read 68 books this year, ten of which were art and cookbooks, 13 were other non-fiction, and the...

Advent Darkness (quote by Fleming Rutledge)
By Polly Castor on December 21, 2025Read moreAdvent bids us to take a fearless inventory of the darkness: the darkness without and the darkness within.

Advent Visitation (Poem by Lucy Shaw)
By Polly Castor on December 20, 2025Read moreThese still December mornings I fancy I live in a clear envelope of angels like a cellophane womb. Or a...

What Comes Next (Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
By Polly Castor on December 19, 2025Read moreLove relentlessly, she said, and I want to slip these two words into every cell in my body, not the...

Crispy Black Bean Tacos (Recipe)
By Polly Castor on December 18, 2025Read moreThese are delicious and easy to make. It makes tacos enough for four people, and since we are only...

Nice Board Book Gift Idea
By Polly Castor on December 17, 2025Read moreThese are delightful in every way, with wonderful art and rhyme, as well as peek-a-boo holes to see through...

Still Flourishing (Conceptual Abstract Landscape Collage)
By Polly Castor on December 16, 2025Read moreI was thinking about the autumnal season of life, and how it is still glorious, interesting, strong, and dynamic...

Advent (quote by Alfred Delp)
By Polly Castor on December 15, 2025Read moreIt is time to waken from sleep. A waking up must begin somewhere. It is time to put things...

Sword Catcher (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on December 14, 2025Read moreThis is the only book over 500 pages I read this year and I really enjoyed it. I'll be...

God Knows What You Need (New Poem by Polly Castor)
By Polly Castor on December 13, 2025Read moreGod is a joiner, like a carpenter, splicing together mitered corners, with flush, beautiful transitions, meeting together just right.

Love a Dynamic Process (Quote by Maria Popova)
By Polly Castor on December 12, 2025Read moreLove is simply the breadth of the aperture through which you let in the reality of another and the...
