Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
Here are two small, current dilemmas here: 1.) My daughter’s worn out shoes. I gave a familiar ultimatum to my teenagers: clean your room or else. The “else” in this case was the worse threat imaginable. I promised that if they didn’t do it, I would enter their room and do it myself. (You’d think … Read more
This page represents July 22, 2010 to August 2, 2010. See close-ups of recent entries below. Enjoy!
These taste great and are good for you too. They are a perfect option for a weekend breakfast or brunch. The recipe came from Bubby’s Brunch Cookbook (see here), which I checked out of the library. Apparently Bubby’s is a NYC landmark restaurant in Tribeca that I’ll have to visit sometime, since this book is … Read more
We’ve got purple potatoes, purple beans, and purple cabbage. It’s quite fun after all the green we’ve eaten…
Wow. I was really impressed and inspired by this artwork of kiln fired glass by Alice Benrie Gebhart.
Sexuality Can Be Beautiful We learn that God is all; matter is nothing. Spirit, being all, could not create it’s opposite, matter. Sensuality can be sin: Not just out of wedlock or in the act of lust or adultery. When steeped in matter and about matter, it is all wrong. This will never satisfy since … Read more
I liked this Pulitzer Prize winning book more than most that get that award, and I give it four stars. Olive was depicted as a fleshed out character who felt very real to me. This book is made up of short stories with Olive either central, secondary or peripheral, but all are linked together so … Read more
This page represents July 10 to July 21 2010.
See close-ups of recent entries below.
Enjoy!
We assemble to watch the sunsets, like we have pricey tickets to a Broadway show. And we are not disappointed by the drama and amazing display prepared for us…
We had a lot of fun playing in the waves. These Block Island beaches are varied and world class.
The houses on Block Island are lovely in all their shapes and sizes. We stayed in the tiny one at the bottom which belongs to my pottery teacher’s husband’s family;
With our children scattered either out of state or out of the country, my husband and I seized the opportunity to escape alone together to Block Island.
When I was in Farmington, Maine, my daughter and I visited a wonderful place. It was called Everyone’s Resource Depot
