Keep Your Paintings Simple (Lewis Nobel Quote)
So keep it simple, enjoy your painting, and don’t fight with it.
Polly Castor
The River We Remember (Book Review)
If you like a who-done-it that rings more about the people, place, and time than anything else, you might like this book.
Under the Waterfall (New Large Oil Painting)
It is a place at once with thundering energy and spontaneous effervescence, but also of prisms and refraction. It is a place that blots out all other white noise, leaving a soul cleansed, refreshed and calm.
Beyond Selfie Culture to Balanced Self-Expression
For a more balanced approach to self-expression, pay attention to the internal more than the external, keep your sense of validation between yourself and your own highest ideal…
Cold Cucumber Soup (Recipe)
This soup is easy and very delicious, while being light, refreshing, and low in calorie.
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (New Poem by Polly Castor)
I ask for You to help
this country vote for a solution
that we can all live with.
Still Life (Book Review)
The writing here was excellent, spacious, and full of dialogue. It slowed down my pace considerably, and not in a bad way
Objectively Examine Your Opinions or Beliefs
Are your opinions and beliefs just mindlessly following the crowd?
Grace Notes (#54 with Photos)
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good.
How to Deal with the Estrangement of an Offspring
Be patient with both them and yourself, taking blame fully out of the equation.
Polly Answers Your Questions #12
How to overcome a creative slump, grief of a parent’s passing, advice for college freshmen, fires starters…
Recent Black and White Photographs
Value, shape, form, texture and light are what I’m exploring here, as well as how they contribute to composition.
Freedom From (New Poem by Polly Castor)
This Fourth of July I want freedom from hubris and inadequacy…