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.

Annapolis Shopping

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There is wonderful shopping in Annapolis. My husband and I enjoyed wandering around and seeing all the beauty and good ideas. Collecting images on my camera is a marvelous way to feel fulfilled while browsing, without needing to spend any money. My favorite thing here that I’d love to have? The opal necklace above. What … Read more

Annapolis Food

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Eating at home usually, it is fun to have a long weekend away to eat out. Above is the best breakfast I’ve ever had; that salmon Benedict was phenomenal (click here). The diner near my daughter’s college has the biggest milkshakes in the world (6 pounds!); I photographed someone else’s here, and you can see … Read more

College Waltz Party

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When I was in college, I would never have had my parents stay in my off campus housing, nor were there any waltz parties that they would have been welcome to. But here we are staying in my daughter’s house and welcomed at her waltz party, like that is normal. For some reason this gives … Read more

Book Review: Letter to My Daughter

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Considering what this book could have been, I found it disappointing, and only give it three stars. Maya Angelou is an amazing woman and you do glean from this memoir what she was up against, and that her personal struggles made her strong. This book was written to the daughter she never had (all of … Read more

My Recent Digital Art

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I enjoy what I call “improving moments.” One of the ways I’ve been doing this lately is creating art on my 2” x 3” iPhone screen at in between moments that would have been otherwise squandered. I find this process very meditative. Enjoy!

Fish Photos

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I love how the more spiritually minded one is the more one is open to embrace all the good around them. This fish graced the space that held the conference on spirituality I attended, and set me to musing about how when we subjugate materiality in favor of spirituality, we see more of the radiance … Read more

Visiting Harvard and a Card Company

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This weekend I am in Boston for a yearly conference on spirituality. I’m staying on Harvard Square in the beautiful lace bedroom of friends I hadn’t met yet. Blog readers (thank you Erwin and Anne!) set me up to meet Helen Eddy (yes, a distant relative of Asa Eddy’s) who has been in the handmade … Read more

My Two New Mixed Media Paintings

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Ridgefield Guild of Artists (click here) has a fundraiser each year where artists create work around a common stencil, and then these are contributed as a fundraiser. Last year the theme was coffee cups, and this year it is the town fountain. Here are the two mixed media works I made yesterday for this purpose. … Read more

My Ecumenical Friends

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I have to say I am blessed with some wonderful ecumenical friends. I’ve had the privilege of representing my church on our town’s clergy association for many years now, even serving two years as president. All eighteen of these people are excellent. I love this photo which I took yesterday of our local Rabbi and … Read more

Happy Halloween

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Happy Halloween. Today my thirteen year old daughter was a skunk, my sixteen year old son was Jesus, and my eighteen year old daughter for the first time did not dress up, surprised to find it repugnant to be anything other than herself. Me? I wore the beloved orange. All but the top two of … Read more