Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
Every year on this blog (minus the pandemic) you’ve come with me to Creative Arts Camp at Newfound/Owatona, on the shores of Long Lake, in Maine, at the end of August. It is a national church camp program for adults, a destination event for creative Christian Scientists. If that is you, I want you to … Read more
I think the key to stress free cooking, is low pressure: be creative, have fun, stay ahead of the game, and have a plan…
This is basically a three day process, but its worth it. It is not difficult, but it does take time.
Let us rejoice in all our differences and celebrate all our uncomfortable disruptions, before they are outlawed.
All of these photos were taken from within our cosy home, looking out our windows.
Who else is so exacting, while so comfortable with fudging it?
This is historical fiction that squarely puts you into that time and place, fascinated by who he meets up with and how he copes.
This is easy, quick, and delicious. The swordfish is succulent.
Use these little compositions to make yourself explain why a composition works, and why it doesn’t.
Sam Boughton is an abstract landscape painter whose spare work I admire. Her efficient, decisive mark making is luscious, and how she beautifully simplifies the landscape is wonderful.
Live Larger Are you thinking of self? Are you gazing at your navel, and wondering why you are so uninspired? Is your existence narrowing, becoming tight-fisted and defensive? Are your parameters closing in? Are you marinating in a stupor of petty purposes, limiting beliefs, and downward spiraling thoughts? Then set down your tweezers, and start … Read more
