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Polly Castor

I work to amplify good wherever I find it. I love color, texture, beauty, great ideas, nature, metaphor, deliciousness, genuine spirituality, and exploring new territory. I encourage authenticity, nurture creativity, champion sustainability, promote peace, and hope to foster a new renaissance where we all are free to be our most fulfilled, multifaceted, and terrific selves. Read more here.

Hot and Sour Soup (Recipe)

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 by Polly Castor
Hot and Sour Soup Recipe

This soup takes amazing, is easy and quick to make, and feels soul nourishing. This is destined to become something I make a lot.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, seafood, soup, Whole30 3 Comments

Jewels from the Archives (#1)

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020 by Polly Castor
Jewels from the archives

Here is some great content to take in while waiting out this global situation.

Categories Ideas, Poetry, Spirituality Tags abundance, patience, peace, Release 1 Comment

Journeys to Abstraction (Book Review with Notes & Lots of Ideas)

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 by Polly Castor
Journeys To Abstraction book review with notes and ideas

This is an excellent book to get the back story on how some abstract art is made.

Categories Art, Ideas Tags 5 Star Books, acrylic painting, Art Books, Book Reviews, watercolor 2 Comments

Reassurances to Assuage Fear from the Bible

March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 by Polly Castor
Reassurances to Assuage Fear in the Bible, Citations to subdue fear in the Bible

Fear not, little flock!

Categories Spirituality Tags Bible, Christian, God, Release 1 Comment

Springtime Blues (New Landscape in Pastel)

March 21, 2020March 21, 2020 by Polly Castor
Springtime Blues (pastel) by Polly Castor

I wanted to capture both the beauty of the early spring scenes I’ve been taking in, as well as the general melancholy of the time.

Categories Art Tags Abstract Landscapes, Connecticut, pastel, spring 3 Comments

Dethroning Yourself (Karen Armstrong Quote)

March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 by Polly Castor

Think of others!

Categories Ideas Tags advice, Quotes, Release Leave a comment

A Veteran Homeschooler’s Advice for Homebound Families

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 by Polly Castor
Veteran Homeschooler's Advice for Homebound Families

I wrote this to help homebound families find the blessing in their school closures by fortifying their families.

Categories Homeschooling, Hope, Ideas Tags homeschooling, life lessons, parenting, Special Occasions 4 Comments

Making Preserved Lemons (Recipe)

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 by Polly Castor

Here we are making an ingredient that we’ll be using in future yumminess!

Categories Food, Ideas Tags Recipes 2 Comments

Moss (St. Patrick’s Day Poem by Polly Castor)

March 17, 2020 by Polly Castor
Moss poem by Polly Castor

Ever wonder where moss comes from? An infinite loop of spores and green.

Categories Poetry Tags Poetry by me, Special Occasions, spring 2 Comments

Our March Flowers (Photos)

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 by Polly Castor
our March Flowers

Check out the beautiful flowers at our house right now.

Categories Photography Tags Connecticut, crocus, Flowers, Nature, spring 1 Comment

What Uncertainty? (New Poem by Polly Castor)

March 15, 2020March 15, 2020 by Polly Castor
What Uncertainty poem by Polly Castor

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Categories Poetry, Spirituality Tags metaphor, Poetry by me, Release 3 Comments

Tips for Working from Home

March 14, 2020March 14, 2020 by Polly Castor
Tips for working from home

I’ve worked from home for 23 years, so here are some tips for those of you newly thrust into this lifestyle.

Categories Hope, Ideas Tags advice, happiness, life lessons, trust, Virtue 3 Comments

Slip out of the Noose of Your Anxious Self (Sogyal Rinpoche quote)

August 2, 2022March 13, 2020 by Polly Castor
quote by Sogyal Rinpoche

“Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible…

Categories Hope, Ideas Tags advice, Mindfulness, Quotes 4 Comments

Walk, Don’t Run (poem by Rob Bell)

March 12, 2020March 12, 2020 by Polly Castor
Walk, Don't Run poem by Rob Bell

It talks a lot of slow to grow.

Categories Poetry Tags life lessons, Mindfulness, poetry by others 2 Comments

Mosaics in the Orlando Airport (Photos)

March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 by Polly Castor
mosaics in orlando airport photos

When my husband saw these he knew I would love them. I do and you may too!

Categories Art, Photography Tags Art by Others, mixed media, Travel 2 Comments

Things You Don’t Need to Do Anymore (Melissa Urban Quote)

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 by Polly Castor
Things you don't have to do anymore

Listen up for some good advice.

Categories Hope, Ideas Tags advice, authenticity, happiness, life lessons, Quotes, Release, Virtue Leave a comment

I’m in this Connecticut Pastel Society Show

March 9, 2020March 9, 2020 by Polly Castor
CPS Member Show 2020

Check out this group show by a wonderful bunch of pastel artists.

Categories Art Tags Art Shows, pastel 1 Comment
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Reviews from Readers

Your multiple images and vocabulary choices give energy and renewed resolve to flagging spirits. Thank you for sharing.

Yes indeed! You are a shining light and you are definitely using all your wonderful talents

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

Perspective is everything – and choosing a liberating one blesses everyone, as you point out!

Yummy and beautiful! I love all the colors and this food looks amazing! The plates too!

I feel the joy and love of the color and thought in all your work! You are letting your light shine.

These are awesome. You have such a gift for photography…and for pastels…and for cooking…and for finding interesting books…and, and, and. Where does it end?

Love the photos, as usual. You are a Creative Genius, Polly.

Love your blog. Today’s is dynamite and very helpful to viewing our role as individuals at this time.

What an incredible blessing and inspiration you are. Thank you so much for your beautiful heart!

Magnificent poem. How blest you are to be a poet, photographer, artist, metaphysician, all wrapped up into One.

Helen Frankenthaler’s works were interesting, but I like your abstracts better.

Your photos are so vivid and expressive and inspiring and artistic and alive!

Thanks so much for this recommendation Polly. We watched in awe … and have recommended in turn.

Thank you, Polly, for bringing clarity to the stressful events we’re experiencing. Your insights are thought-provoking and inspirational. I’m very thankful for your blog.

Beautiful and profoundly perfect for pandemic season, your poem empowers hope for what’s next. I plan to read it at Sunday Devotional. Thank you!

When you get famous, I need to be the president of your fan club.

Polly, your wonderful blog is doing more than its bit in this dreadful time. Thanks, and keep on keeping on!

Your food is presented in such an artistic way that it looks beautiful, wholesome and totally delicious!!

Yes, healing does happen when we deeply and humbly pray. Thanks for keeping that idea alive.

Well Done! This is such a wonderful venture. Your work is just extraordinary!

Polly, I love your poem “you were never unwanted”. This poem really hit home. Thank you for your words of wisdom

Your posts are treasure troves of your beautiful and giving heart.

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

Thank you for your generosity and your overflowing sense of soul which you share so beautifully and articulately with everyone!!

With its awesome art, recipes, book reviews, and really excellent writing, this blog is the perfect corner of the internet.

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

Thank you Polly for your radiant joy and embrace of each of us, wrapping us in your color and beauty of Soul.

I enjoy your strong, bold artwork– there is so much going on in them that my imagination takes off. I really appreciate your blog. It brings joy every day.

Every day I look forward to your blog. It’s encouraging me to find ways to express what God reveals in me.

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

Thank you for sharing this quote. It is very appropriate for our times. A beautiful wake up call to change our thinking and focus on what is real and true.

You are such an inspirational person Polly! I love everything you share with us – such a joy to have your daily input in my inbox! X x x

Quite unforgettable. You truly have a way with words:warm; strong; inviting; enlightening; so substantive, and more.

WONDERFUL blog, Polly! Thank you for your spiritual calm, support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. I am just left in awe !

I love your swirling universes, the spirals that draw one in and introduce us to ourselves.

Polly lets her spirituality into her art as you can see in the many abstract paintings she creates. We were wowed by her ability and her encouragement of others to express themselves artistically.

Oh so beautiful! I keep coming back to look at the paintings again.

This poem is what I needed to further focus on moving out of the fear of COVID.❤️

I love this poem! Letting our true, authentic self come forth! Yes!! Thank you for all the delightful imagery!

So beautiful, Polly. Thank you for spelling out – through such artful means – the beauty of patience.

You share so freely, with so so so much love and joy and an open-open-heart…

I look forward to your messages each day, like a delightful gift to unwrap.

Thank you so.much, Polly. It says with abundant clarity what thousands upon thousands of thoughtful men and women think and believe. I appreciate you!!

The Spirit at work is so well described here. In between the lines I read that
our only true peace is in pleasing Our Creator! Thank you deeply, Polly!

I truly love and am inspired by your blog, including capturing the beauty of life in the moment, teaching by example, taking time with children, and spirituality.

Well said Polly!

Life is so exciting we should limit ourselves less!

Let’s all have a productive day and be joyful!

I can’t tell you how helpful this has been to me today. I must’ve read it half a dozen times or more. It’s helping me with a great challenge. Thank you!

When I open my email in the morning I read all the have-to emails first; I save yours to read as dessert. Thanks, Polly!

I think you have covered absolutely every way anyone would wish to be blessed

Polly….I’m happier because of you; I sure do thank you.

Polly, your reflection of Soul’s endless creativity is truly wonderful! Thank you for letting the divine shine through you so brightly!

Love the poem so so much and the first painting with the trees is INCREDIBLE!!

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

This is such a beautiful and loving blog and feels much like your amazing dynamic spiritual art. You are proving and sharing truth in a precious, creative, encouraging, and heartfelt way. You inspire me!

Polly, you are a whiz at living life the way it’s meant to be. I’m fascinated by all you do!

It’s a rare inspiration that can uncover an aching joy — but those poems do that. Thanks for sharing this with us.

That’s all very helpful for me today, Polly. Thanks for going deep on this. I’m sharing your joy in our Source.

I wanted you to know that I found the time I spent on your blog to be relaxing, refreshing, inspiring, and totally enjoyable.

Your blog has inspired me to get back into painting, cooking, prayer and meditation.

Once again, you have come through for us with such clear and coherent thinking and put into words the feelings in our hearts.

LOVE it. Made me smile while I was reading it.

This blog deeply resonates while being beautiful, delicious, inspiring, and fun. Not easy to do!

I am so happy to have found your site and to be able to enjoy your expression of Spirit! Love your poetry, your photos, your ideas, your …YOU! THANK you for sharing so abundantly!

I love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited joy.

Your photos have opened my eyes to the beauty surrounding us everywhere.

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

Thank you for sharing the joy of your trip with us. I feel blessed this morning to know you in all the ways you reveal good and magnify it.

Gorgeous new work. I love the vitality of the city scenes and vibrant color palette.

Your poem feels like a lesson, a treatment, and a love letter all rolled into one perfect package.
Thank you, Polly.

Neat! Love the black and white contrasts enhanced by the light.

I am so totally impressed with your photography, poetry, and painting.Your talent is incredible!!!

Wow! Love the abundance of exotic shapes and colours in the Autumn sunshine!

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

It is always refreshing to see the loves, joys, challenges, and triumphs that you share on your blog.

So beautiful and I have shared it with so many others. Thank you!

I am a silent regular reader of your daily blog, and I’m finally in touch to tell you how much I like it. I love it!

Thank you sincerely for your joyful out-pouring of love, light, color, comforting, inspiring words…

Such a complete radiance of Soul you are demonstrating. I find it very inspiring!

I just love your photos, Polly. Whether it’s food or art or nature . . . They are always so beautiful and interesting and full of life !

Wish I had gotten this message 75 years ago. It makes so much sense and would have saved me a lot of self criticism. I love your blog.

This blog is colorful, beautiful, and edifying.

Thank you for the constant good thoughts and beautiful expressions of love and joy that you share on your blog.

Thank you for revealing this idea you’ve been following. I can tell when an angel has tapped me on the shoulder–it feels light and right and fun.

I get so happy when I see your paintings. I really do. They bring me such joy. I feel your heart when I see them.

What lovely Soul-inspired insights! Thank you for these great ideas!

Love all you do and express. You’re an amazing role model!!

Thank you for bringing to light and sharing an undeniably important part of the one stupendous whole we all share…the countless ways beyond sight, and not to be missed, always at hand.

These photos are so wonderful, it really warms the heart.

I made your fabulous Fish Tacos and they were BEYOND delicious!!

Providing us with wonderful refreshment, enlightenment, peace, encouragement, joy,
and a whole lot more. Thanks, Polly!

Everything on your site is so colorful, spiritual and alive!

I just adore all of your wonderful posts and everything that you share so generously. ????? You have a beautiful sense of soul that you share – it blesses me and so many!

I always appreciate your reviews. Our fave film in 2019 was The Green Book – which we watched following your recommendation.

Polly, I am absolutely amazed. My mouth was watering! I’ll be thinking about it all night…and tomorrow we will break out the paints!

This is absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

I salute you! And I sure do thank you for inspiring me to greater efforts along all lines of life!

This is absolutely magnificent. Bless your precious and beautiful soul for sharing this.

I appreciate the joy, inspiration, and great information you provide us in your blogs.

Wow, super powerful and definitely what I needed to hear today.

Yes, lots of good flavor triggers in there. I printed it out and will try it. Thanks so much!

This couldn’t possibly be more perfect, – so reassuring, and so fully expresses in every way what we all are praying for. Thank you for your a beautiful heart and generous giving of it!!

I so enjoyed your trip blog. The outstanding photos and the amazing narratives made me feel I was on vacation for a few minutes each day.

I love your Blog, Polly!! Therefore, I love you! Your art, your poetry, your philosophy, your religion, your book reviews, your photography, your … husband!

What a breath of fresh air!! Thank you for your honesty, integrity and willingness to speak out for Truth and Justice!!!

I’m so grateful to be able to enjoy all you so generously share on your blog, the colorful photos, the recipes, the art works, the insights, the book reviews and so much more!

You capture so vividly the beauty of nature. Thank you for bringing such beauty into my every day.

This is absolutely beautiful and so incredibly helpful and inspiring! Thank you so much! ❤️

Thank you for expanding my ways to see, Polly.

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

Polly always captures the balance between what I can do, and all the miracles I am given.

Thank you for your efforts. I look forward to your positive thoughts and love.

I am grateful for the myriad ways you celebrate Life in your art, activities and relationships. Your blog is inspiring in its magnification of Soulful goodness!

Thank you for focusing in on and capturing the little things we so often pass by and/or take for granted.

Beautiful photos. It is uplifting and energizing to see such bright, cheerful, healthy and fresh images. Thanks, I needed that!

I love your website, messages, poems and art. Thank you for the blessing of community that you provide.

That definitely sounds like a book I’d like to read! Thanks Polly!

I have been blessed beyond words by your daily posts. I often quote you to others, saying I got the idea from a wonderful friend I’ve never actually met.

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

I really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

I’ve just finished this book and I loved it! Thanks for recommending it.

I love that you live such an active life, have so many interests, and share your insights with me. Your blog is like a conversation with a dear friend.

Polly your blog is simply a marvelously enriching, thought provoking part of the daily wonders of life! I give thanks for you and the blog!

Excellent post, dear Polly! Thanks!! There is lots that I relate to in your comments!

Amazing, Polly! A wonderful example of seeing the possibilities…creativity at its best.

I have to tell you that your spiritual to-do list was the springboard for a great talk with my older daughter. We are going to check on each other, and progress.

Thank you for sharing yourself and creativity in such a transparent way, it is very inspiring and humbling to me.

Thank you for sharing this.
Strange, nothing surprising here.
You are who you are.

I think one reason I enjoy your blog is that you Stand Forth In All Your God-given Glory, expressing everything Good!

You encourage me to grow with your everyday wisdom and your lovely contributions.

Really enjoyed your poem on Animal magnetism. Very clear truths. Thank you. Your vibrant art work is superb.

I recently I recommended your blog to a friend saying, “She’s like a dear friend, she just doesn’t know me.” Thank you for all the delight you add to my days!

Wow! What a stunning collection of gorgeous images and though-provoking quotes. They made my day.

Thank you very much, Polly. You are a bright light!

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

Keep up the good work. You are an inspiration! I love reading your blog with it’s many insights.

Thank you for all your uplifting daily contributions, wherever form they take – photos, recipes, artwork, book reviews and smiley faces!

I did your 52 books challenge, and loved the structure that it provided to my selections. Doing it again this year too!

Thank you Polly!! This has needed to be said for a while!

Polly, I needed you today and there you were and it was enough. Thank you for being a motivator.

Love your blog’s colour and joyfulness and the inspiring leads, Polly. Easy to see why you are much loved. Thank you.

Your abstracts are interesting and you have a unique style that is all your own. Original, demonstrating individuality and confidence! I see joy and love expressed.

I for one want to thank you so much for writing this blog. I started about a year ago and look forward to reading it every day. I feel like an armchair adventurer…

Thank you for using this platform to share these references for listening & learning. Now the work required to make a lasting change is up to each of us! ❤️

I find the ideas you share on your blog very encouraging in having a sense of order when it comes to goals and priorities.

Glorious! Thank you for tending these lovely flowers together, and for posting on your blog, Polly.

Just a wonderland of possibilities and ideas and the materials to explore and discover. What a beautiful, exciting place! I’ve taken all this glory into my heart today and am grateful for it.

This blog is a daily dose from an spiritually-oriented, artist, thinker, sage.

Polly, what amazing and timely insight in these wise words! Thanks for sharing this wisdom.

Love this– actually so “timely” for what I have been thinking about lately.

I LOVE THIS BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for your burst of sunshine reflected in your positivity this morning… I look forward to your blogs.

Your site is bolstering my creative thoughts. I need to put them into action.

You are … just plain wonderful, Polly! Your blog is bursting with poetry, art, writings, love of God, family, friends, all things great and wonderful and good!

I love your blog! I shared it with my mom, an artist, and she is impressed with your art. I’ve also spent time studying your paintings. Just listened to your interview, it was stellar! Thank you!!

Oh how I love this! Thank you, thank you!

Thank you for Saying So Well What Needs To Be SAID!

Hoping others can/will read this…

All of your work is eye and mind popping. I love it!

Thank you for the joy you share. I look forward to reading your posts!

What a fine piece! You certainly are a shining example….[it] was uplifting and instructive.

Polly, please keep sharing these pages! I love seeing them. You inspired me to do the same thing.

Wow, you outdid yourself this month with your Bits and Clips. It was a wonderful mix of beauty, humor, and thoughtfulness.

I loved this book, Polly. Thank you so much for the recommendation.

I read and feel the security of the hearth and home. Many thanks…

I’m new to your site and I love today’s post about being grateful!

This is spectacular, Polly! I love it!

I never before found computers this beautiful….

Thank you for this. Read it. Gave me hope. Going through an “unsure” time. Thank you for these words of strength, hope, and faith.

Graciously and lovingly spoken, like a true friend to all. Thank you for your blog Polly.

I really enjoy reading your blog – but I have to say that your monthly ‘Bits and Clips’ posts and your ‘Grace Notes’ posts are my favorite :)

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

Thank you for writing this opinion so eloquently, Polly. You have addressed many nuances that I have been espousing for years, and your words are powerful and thought-provoking.

I appreciate your blog. It’s a breath of fresh air, beauty, and innovative thinking!

Thank you for introducing me to wonderful, amazing authors.
Love the pictures of your elegant flowers.

Thank you for your ultra positive, upbeat, cheering and cheerful expressions in so many forms. What great seeds to sow in world thought!

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

Your zest for the good things in life makes me feel happy too!

Thank you for bringing your hydrangeas into my home via the internet. Other flowers are lovely too, but hydrangeas are SPECIAL.

Thank you Polly, for saying what needs to be said.

Very helpful in these seemingly uncertain times. I found a couple of specific ideas expressed here that apply to a specific situation in my life. Thank you!

I did your tomato tart a few days ago, and it was fabulous! I am vegetarian and look for meals I can make that have lots of flavor. Your tart was just perfect!

Love your blog. Today’s was dynamite, and very helpful for understanding our role as individuals at this time.

Oh my gosh how did you know I needed this today? I am in absolute awe of your thorough and articulate way you describe how all of this works.

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

How blessed we are to have someone like you on this Earth.

Hi Polly, loved this poem. It radiates hope and feeling of calmness. I am glad I came across these beautiful words. Keep posting similar reads and spreading positivity.

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

Synesthesia! I can taste the yellows and hear the oranges! A feast to the senses! Brava talented Polly

I love the photos – such a gift which makes me feel closer to Fall, my favorite season.

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

Polly this is absolutely exquisite and so inspiring. I will refer to it often.

Absolutely stunning, Polly. I love the infinite range of ideas, expression, and media in this BIG blog of yours.

Polly, thanks for “amplifying good”. That’s what you really do!

You are my favorite artist. I just have to say it. Your paintings make me so happy.

I am so grateful for your generous sharing of ideas across so many different fields! Your colorful art, your beautiful photography, your tasty looking and well presented dishes, your uplifting ideas, your insightful book reviews, and your wonderful healing work! You truly are a polymath!! I so look forward to your daily offerings and rejoice in them all.

Thank you for bringing your beautiful great outdoors into my world.
You do a great job taking pictures. The colors are so vibrant and I like that you notice
shadows.

This blog is simultaneously simple and profound– a perfect, balanced combination of seriousness and light.

I want to express my gratitude to you for such a well thought out essay. I found it quite enriching and resonate with those true answers.

The last day of the month on your blog is always a BIG treat . . . This morning I went from fasting to feasting . . .

You are such an inspiring person, Polly, and I love the variety of your activities you share with us all! Thank you so much.

I am touched by this well thought out, well written essay. You have put into words what so many of us have in our minds and hearts. Thank you!

Thanks for sharing from the seat of your soul with generosity and openness.

Loved your plein air painting, the pictures of the garden plenty — oh wow. Love opening your blog each day — it is a treat that I save sometimes.

Thank you for this….I absolutely love reading it!

Absolutely beautiful!!! I love these particular colors together and the different styles and techniques really give it a lot of depth and texture. Brilliant!!!!

This is so well thought out and written. Thank you for this compelling essay. I agree with you on all points, Polly.

What a delight to experience the beauty of nature you shared of your slice of the world through these beautiful photos.

Wow. Yes, quite something to contemplate. Thank you, Polly!!

Thank you for your transparency of love, your generous sharing of what you are pondering and doing.

Thank you Polly–you are always such a clear thinker and always willing to share your God-given gifts.

Way to go on your artistic journey. You show great courage, humility, and such support for everyone around you.

These thoughts you shared are a keeper for me to revisit when in need. You are a blessing to many!

Love your pastels!

Your blog is uplifting and enlightening, and seems to speak to me just when I need it most.

Thank you for sharing such a personal, and at the same time, universal, love of beauty.

Thank you so much for this thoughtful, informative and articulate book review, Polly!

Deep and encompassing. Passionate and motherly. Loving and expansive. The photos speak volumes too…and I see the connections with the poem perfectly.

I am one of your readers who definitely looks forward to a positive message from you every morning. You grow people.

I loved this post! It gave me much to think about. Thank you for being such a beautiful and prolific source of inspiration. You are a wonder! I’m a fan!

I’m so grateful for all you share with us.

The colors are exquisite!!! Thanks for bringing so much beauty into our lives.

Thank you for your efforts. I look forward to your positive thoughts and love.

You show us how God’s love shines in all things. You are a blessing!

Thank you for this exercise in balance, Polly. Helps a lot!

Thank you so much for your fantastic, soulful images– your photos really capture the love, joy, camaraderie, power, and intensity of the present moment.

I just had to comment on today’s blog. I LOVED it! I have had similar thoughts for some time.

Just beautiful, Polly. So honest and uplifting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and the helpful ones of others.

I LOVE YOU!!

You amuse-inspire-edify-entertain-inform-uplift-enhance-educate-color!-…my days!

Thank you for all the inspiration you share so generously. I am deeply grateful!

I have tremendous admiration for your strength, your depth, your compassion, your passion and your love. You are a woman deeply filled to the brim…

Without a doubt my life has been enriched and uplifted by my acquaintance with you through your blogs. Every day I look for the interesting ideas you amplify and the lovely arts you share with us. I am never disappointed.

This is one of the BEST explanations of one’s understanding of God I have seen in a long time. The image paired with the text was spot on!

Putting the art of poetry, photography and painting into your hands is God’s gift to us who get to read it and see it. Thanks.

Your reading challenge has inspired me and given me permission to read again, as previously I had just fitted reading round everything else. Now it is a legitimate activity in my life and I am enjoying it immensely!

We are so blessed with your access to nature and your talent to communicate visually….

Today’s post was a Gift from God. Opening your email this morning truly lifted my Spirit. Thank you.

Your blog captures a life well lived, constantly imparting good– truth, health and happiness– including beauty, harmony, art, science to the world.

Beautiful photos! All that color, texture & gorgeous pattern….

This is a fantastic article Polly…so much in it, I know I’ll have to re read it at least twice more!

I love your coffee cake recipe, I have a book list from your blog, I love the photos, the poems, the paintings, the movie reviews, the humor, the honesty, the color.

The phrase ‘divine choreography’ is resonating with me. Bless you for sharing your inspiration with us all.

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

Well done Polly, I love your book reviews! Please carry on the good work of guiding our book choices.

Thank you for the insight. Especially separating church from a building or denomination. The passion and joy of color in your paintings is marvelous.

What an inspiring and uplifting painting. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with the world!

Grace is a beautiful quality and you exude it in spades – thanks so much for all you do and are! You are a treasure!

Wow!! I cannot wait to try this recipe! Thank you!

Oh yum, Polly… These gorgeous photos made my mouth water and my eyes pop!

My mother adores your blog and speaks to me often about what recent nugget you shared which she thought was wonderful!

How blessed we are to have someone like you on this Earth.

I love this poem, Polly, and I shall read it often! I feel sure it will help lift my thought to healing.

I am simply amazed at the wealth of beauty, soul, and experience. Love it. Love you! Thank You for sharing your innermost so openly.

Excellent. Thank you for sharing this welcome thought to redirect today’s thinking.
I am grateful for this blog.

This blog is upbeat, progressive, sincere, colorful, metaphoric, and exploratory. Such a rich feast!

Thanks for the nudge!

You continue to inspire, impress, and
amaze me, Polly.

Outstanding message! And a sure “wake-up” call for me regarding mortal decline. I’m off on a refreshing direction. Thanks, Polly.

Illuminating thoughts, thank you for sharing them. Very clear.

The Brussels sprouts were an exceptionally BIG hit here…. could you direct me to more literature on spiritual healing?

I must find the higher spiritual path that nature often helps me see. Thank you for this beautiful poem.

Thank you Polly for sharing those wise words! I heartily agree with them all now I have a bigger perspective on life.

Oh my goodness Polly, this is absolutely magnificent and reaches so far deep into my soul.

Thank you for your commitment to reality and our true nature!

I enjoy your blog so much. But today you are on top. Every thought you expressed so lovingly…. some very funny but always with love. Thank you for all you bring to so many .

I just want to say that I have really been enjoying your blog! It gives me hope for the world…

I feel such gratitude for the beautiful way in which you express God. Thanks for blessing my life and being such a shining light in the world!

This blog is so prolific and original, inspiring and joy producing.

You are doing so wonderfully at praising God with your talents.

Really beautiful, very hope filled. I love this!

You brighten my life with your thoughts, views, words, pictures….

I have so enjoyed your recent posts– about your garden, your reflections about parenting, your vibrant artwork– so many wonderful expressions of Spirit.

What a beautiful spirit you have, shining right through your source.

Thank you! I enjoy reading your notes from the Bible Lesson. Your interpretation is helpful for my thought and I’m sure many others.

Thankful every morning to see another treasure from you in my emails !

This is a beautiful summary and reminder of how we can both individually and collectively dissolve the powerless, baseless lies with Truth. Thank you, Polly!!

Lovely Polly! You are an inspiration! I am so happy to have your blog in my life!

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

Polly! I love this poem! Letting our true, authentic self come forth! Yes!! Thank you for all the delightful imagery!

Polly, I just love your spirit, innovativeness, receptivity to beauty and to God’s goodness expressed. Thank you for your blog.

You have a great eye for beauty Polly. I love your blog.

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

Thank you so much for this wonderful insight! You put into words what I have been grappling with for a long time. This is just what I needed today.

WOW! Polly! Some truly marvelous work there!!!

A wonderful poem Polly! Thank you. Deeply nourishing….

Thank you Polly for this article on supply! I cherish the healing thoughts therein very much, and they are very helpful.

I have just started this book and am really loving it! Thank you so much for recommending it.

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

I’m grateful for you opening my eyes to the wonders that surround us.

A wonderful poem Polly! Thank you. Deeply nourishing…. like a bird, natural and beautiful, just singing out truth in her special song on a fine winter morning.

You are such a gem Polly- it is an incredible blessing to daily read your blog!

What a stunning place! It is just a slice of heaven. Thank you for sharing its beauty.

Polly, you have such a great feel for things. I will enjoy you forever.

Your blog is full of the wonderful, multilayered colors and textures that you play with, and share so unselfishly with the world.

You are an inspiration to me, and I’m sure to many others. With appreciation for all you do to magnify good!

This is relevant and an excellent way for me to look at some situations I have been in recently.
Thank you Polly.
I will continue to benefit…

You are so incredibly sweet, gracious, kind, thoughtful, creative, generous, joyful, witty, courageous, tender, persistent, compassionate, brilliant, articulate, ad infinitum!

Thanks, Polly! Your zest for the good things in life makes me feel happy too!

A powerful message. Thank you for getting it out there.

Polly, I’m grateful for you, your prayerful work, your blog, your art, photos, words and colors.

Thanks, Polly, for listening so carefully and sharing so selflessly.

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