Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
I have been hugely benefited by loosening the clutch of regret through forgiveness, reframing, and finding gratitude where I could. But more than anything, realizing I can reach for my high ideals in how I behave right now, and respond in each present moment with the greatest integrity, kindness, and initiative, helps me to avoid regret in the future.
These are the ideas that struck me as needing to be contemplated more.
Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
Value and composition are both so important, I look for them everywhere, and lack and white photography is a great way to study and consider them.
I liked this historical fiction about a woman who started her own fashion line and lived life on her own terms.
It is so therapeutic and refreshing to spend some time with color when the results do not matter.
Wow, this was really good, and you just use all-butter puff pastry for the crust, so it is not as difficult as it looks.
Cruciform #5 (acrylic) by Polly Castor Take up the Cross Jesus did not vicariously shoulder and endure the cross for us. He was showing us what we must also do, and even said that if we don’t carry our own cross we cannot be his disciple. Material sense hates spirituality, and tries to rebuke it … Read more
Each one of us is enough and has everything needful. There is a striking simplicity to this fact.
If you actually do what she says here you will have some epiphanies and will make progress in your life and in your relationship with yourself.
Hosanna! (pastel) by Polly Castor Palm Sunday Shouting, dancing, waving, and cheering, fronds euphoric, the new world order we’ve waited for is here, although we didn’t expect it to arrive on a donkey. We thought it would be a military coup, trouncing the Romans. This is freeing us instead from sin and sickness! This humility … Read more
