Pondering Magnolia Shapes (New Poem by Polly Castor with Photos)
I yearn to amplify and articulate them…
Polly Castor
Spring Growth (New Abstract Mixed Media Collage)
I hope you too are growing this spring, like a watered garden unfolding and stretching in the sun!
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Book Review)
I found this excellently written short novel original, elegant, and charming.
How to Overcome Regret
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.
Recent Pages in my Bible Lesson Journal
These are the ideas that struck me as needing to be contemplated more.
The Music We Are (Poem by Rumi with Daffodil Photos)
Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
Recent Black and White Photos
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.
A Dress of Violet Taffeta (Book Review)
I liked this historical fiction about a woman who started her own fashion line and lived life on her own terms.
Recent Pages in my Artist Journal (watercolor and ink)
It is so therapeutic and refreshing to spend some time with color when the results do not matter.
Asparagus Goat Cheese Tart (Recipe)
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.
Take up the Cross (New Poem by Polly Castor)
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
Sufficiency (New Large Abstract Pastel Painting)
Each one of us is enough and has everything needful. There is a striking simplicity to this fact.
Mirror Work (Book Review with Quotes and Affirmations)
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.