Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
I’ve been moving my oldest back to college into her new off-campus housing. Below you can see her leaving our house in the van, being greeted by her sweet landlord who she knows from church, her finished room along with some of her books, as well as the hall downstairs and some of her friends. … Read more
August 27 is the right day but only 2/5 of us will be around then so we celebrated early. As usual, we made cookies instead of cake, an extra large one frosted by the honoree. My son’s approach to this task is applying as much frosting as he can, as you can see below. We … Read more
The tomatoes are coming in fast. They are so lovely and delicious. Here see them on the vine, picked in piles, in a salad with bermuda onion, cucumber and pesto, and being dried in the drier. Tomorrow we’ll try making “tomato leathers” (like fruit roll-ups) and will again make yummy roasted tomatoes (see here). What … Read more
This page represents August 3, 2010 to August 14, 2010. See close-ups of recent entries below. Enjoy!
I liked this book and give it five stars even though it is long, slow in getting started, a tad preachy in places, and about a very serious period in history that may not be fun to contemplate. I think it is not only an important book, but interesting and very well done, written as … Read more
Well, when you love a book, it is rare that you like the movie better, and so it is the case here. Liking the original book, and liking Julia Roberts, wasn’t enough to make this a great movie; I’m only going to give it four (three?) stars, even though I truly wanted it to warrant … Read more
I returned today after three jam packed days away; check out my flight photos here of our land from above. I love the bottom one!
I went to three delicious restaurants while away. The first was Nantucket Cafe (see their website here) and I must apologize for no photos from there; I simply lit into a wonderful salmon salad. (My sister loves their incredible chocolate cake!) At 411 West near the UNC campus in Chapel Hill (click here for their … Read more
I flew to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to see my family and to be of help to my parents. Here are some photos from the sky… The above photo is of Long Island, and several below include shots of the Atlantic shoreline.
My son’s group took the time to see Machu Pichu, which was also inspiring. Below see their photos of that excursion and their leave taking for home…
As I discussed yesterday (see here), my son, along with 20 church teens, went on a service trip to Peru to build a school. They also spent time with the school kids while they were there. If you want to read the blog of their experience you can see it by clicking here. They were … Read more
My son went on a service trip to Peru in July with 20 other church teens. (He’s the tall one in these photos with the black hat on.) They went to build a school there, which I’ll post about on my blog tomorrow. My son did not take a single photo (can you imagine?) Fortunately … Read more
I’ve just started discreetly taking candid photos of people I don’t know out in public. I’ve tried to be respectful and only capture something meaningful. Just like anything, when you start looking, you see it more everywhere. And you can tell so much from a face. So ponder these and enjoy. I’m likely to do … Read more
I first heard of this film when Sandra Bullock won the Academy award for it over Meryl Streep playing Julia Child. That caught my attention. I thought at the time they must have made a wrong call. Not much of a football fan, I hadn’t seen this when it came out. But the Academy award … Read more
At first glance, I thought these were black and white photographs, but they are actually black, white and gray pastels. Very effectively done, they are by artist Whitney Knapp of New York (click here for her website). As much as I love color, this opens up a lot of ideas for me that I might … Read more
The other day, I posted my recent water lily photos, so it is only fitting to now post my recent photos of land lilies…
