Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
I was at a meeting with my son in someone’s lovely home adjacent to a bay on Long Island Sound yesterday, where I captured this sunset from their dock at low tide.
Our oldest daughter left yesterday to go back to college after a three week vacation with us, which was the longest time she’s been home since freshman year.
Here is today’s newspaper article, written this time by my daughter instead of me about her experience on Capitol Hill last summer:
This collage is made from snippets from college “view books” before I recycled them. We saved only the nine for the schools to which he has applied.
Thank you to devoted blog reader Patricia C. for sharing this. I thought many of these were interesting.
It says something when you truly wear out a Bible! He’s starting to use a “new” one that was his mother’s because too many pages are falling out of his own…
Mind you, I neither made this nor ate this, being meatless for over three decades. Meanwhile, my oldest wanted this while she was home and my husband obliged.
For my oldest daughter’s birthday we gave her a dress to wear to a fancy “cotillion” at school. She originally thought she wanted the fabulous blue dress but
Today my son received his bronze Congressional medal during a short ceremony at church today, for work he did through NLC..
Yeah! I’m celebrating my third year of this daily blog. I have a tradition of making a “best of” list with links, which folks have found it especially helpful
– You blog readers may recognize the gorgeous pitcher and bowl set my husband gave me; I had drooled over it last October in a visit to a consignment shop that I blogged about. I never dreamed he would return and buy it for me. On Christmas morning, he left clue #1 at the bottom … Read more
– Jesus’ birthday has also become a secular celebration of familial love – a time of generosity, tradition, togetherness, good food and fun. From our house to yours… Merry Christmas! Here are some scenes from our day… I hope you’ve had a wonderful time as well. –
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“The memory of the Bethlehem babe bears to mortals gifts greater than those of Magian kings, — hopes that cannot deceive, that waken prophecy, gleams of glory, coronals of meekness, diadems of love.”
Mary Baker Eddy
