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.

Photos of Early Spring

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Yeah! Spring is officially here! A chorus of peepers sing out for their sweethearts, and carpets of scilla paint the ground an unexpected brilliant blue. I first remember seeing scilla in the movie Little Women and thought it magical, and then was delighted to find it here in Connecticut near old fashioned homes. I’m resigned … Read more

Book Review: One Thousand White Women

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This is a fictional account spinoff from an actual proposal that a Cheyenne chief made in peace talks in Washington: give us a thousand white women to couple with our braves, and since our children belong to their wives’ tribe, this will assimilate us into the white culture peacefully. I thought this offer had interesting … Read more

Two of my Paintings

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  These two paintings I did a while ago. I wanted to share them because they were done with techniques learned in a book I plan on reviewing (favorably) tomorrow. I love learning new techniques and seeing where they lead in the creative process. The first, an abstract landscape painting was textured with tissue paper … Read more

More Bovine Bliss

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When a previous post featured bovine bliss (see here) I didn’t imagine it as the first of a series. But these New Pond Farm cows are too happy not to record! Whether these two calves were grooming or lovemaking, they were certainly affectionately enjoying one another with exploratory taste buds! It was interesting to photograph … Read more

New Poem by me: Life Goes On

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Life Goes On Death means never more: so definitive and final. In argumentation I’ve learned to avoid saying always and never because it invites finding a loophole. Usually is more effective in such a prevaricating world. Can opposites mutually prevail? Mohair and diamonds both occur but not simultaneously in the same place. We know that … Read more