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.

Trick or Treat?

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With no power, we had a very different type of Halloween. No trick or treaters, conventional style. No one left their homes due to downed live power lines. Our trick or treat was purely at mother nature’s behest. A freak snow storm. Cold darkness with orange candlelight and convivial togetherness huddled around a continually stoked … Read more

Early Photos of October Snow

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Yesterday we got 10-16 inches of snow. It was odd to see snow on the trees while they still had leaves. Today, many branches are down due to the weight of all the snow that was captured by those leaves. We are without power for the indefinite future… When just the first two inches were … Read more

A Love Poem by RUMI

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Looking for Your Face From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today I have seen it Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable grace of the face that I was looking for Today I have found you and those who laughed and scorned me yesterday … Read more

Recipe: Tomatillo Soup

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  Feasting off a friend’s bumper crop of tomatillos, we thought this soup was particularly delicious. Give it a try… Tomatillo Soup recipe 3 tilapia loins (or could use chicken) 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 pound chopped tomatillos 2 jalapeno peppers, seeded and minced 4 cups stock 1/4 … Read more

Photos of a Consignment Shop

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Yesterday, on a rare lazy Saturday afternoon, we found ourselves browsing in this consignment shop. Photos here were taken with my iPhone; I did not expect to wish I had my camera! My youngest daughter has been setting up still life arrangements to draw recently, and this shop was rife with them already assembled everywhere … Read more

Book Review: Caleb’s Crossing

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I really enjoyed this thoroughly researched historical fiction which depicted the circumstances surrounding the first Native American’s matriculation through Harvard College in the 1660’s. Told in period language and utilizing the native tongue in many places, as well as Latin, it was particularly good to listen to on CD. I would recommend this engrossing read, … Read more

Today’s Fresh Thought About Heaven

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Often we think of heaven as an arrival, either here or hereafter, but wisdom eventually teaches us that actually it is more about the journey than the destination. Today when praying, I considered the possibility that heaven was that marvelous long sought after moment when our ultimate potential has been fulfilled. What then, though, I … Read more

Quote from E.F. Schumacher

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“Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something much better: that we can become oak trees.” E.F. Schumacher Sept/Oct Quest Magazine … Read more