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Thanksgiving Photos 2017

November 25, 2017November 25, 2017 by Polly Castor

Here are the photos of our nice day together. Both daughters were home with us, one from California, and the other from Pennsylvania.

Categories Photography Tags Family, Holiday Leave a comment

Black Friday Free Shipping on My Gallery Merchandise

November 24, 2017November 24, 2017 by Polly Castor
Polly Castor merchandise

Take advantage of free shipping today and buy all sorts of great gifts from here on my gallery! Most popular by far are the cell phone covers.

Categories Art Tags abundance, Gift Ideas, Special Occasions Leave a comment

I’m Grateful for You (New Poem by Polly Castor)

December 12, 2017November 23, 2017 by Polly Castor
I'm Grateful for You

I’m grateful for a lot of things:
For Truth, Life, and Love
For family, marriage, and home,
For progress, hope, and fruition,

Categories Ideas, Poetry Tags gratitude, Holidays, Poetry by me, Special Occasions 2 Comments

A Visit to Our Younger Daughter’s College Ceramics Studio

November 23, 2017November 22, 2017 by Polly Castor

The sheer quantity and quality of what our daughter has accomplished in a two and a half months in her college pottery class is staggering.

Categories Art Tags College, Family, pottery 3 Comments

Gluten-Free Stuffing Recipe for Thanksgiving

November 21, 2017 by Polly Castor
Gluten-Free Stuffing Recipe for Thanksgiving

If you have any gluten free people (or vegans or vegetarians) at your Thanksgiving table, they will appreciate this alternative to a bready stuffing.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, Side Dish, Vegan, vegetarian 1 Comment

Amazing Fruity Bread Pudding Recipe

November 20, 2017 by Polly Castor
Amazing Fruity Bread Pudding Recipe

This fruity bread pudding is moist and real, pungent and fruity, complex but humble, and an awesome flavor explosion you’ll return to again and again.

Categories Food Tags Desserts, Recipes 1 Comment

Improve Your Time (quote by Mary Baker Eddy)

November 19, 2017 by Polly Castor
Improve Your Time (quote by Mary Baker Eddy)

“Success in life depends upon persistent effort, upon the improvement of moments more than upon any other one thing.

Categories Hope, Ideas, Spirituality Tags life lessons, Mary Baker Eddy, Quotes 1 Comment

A Piece of the World (Book Review)

November 18, 2017 by Polly Castor

Read this book when you are in the mood for something that is short and deep and not plot driven. I give it a very hushed five stars.

Categories Art, Books Tags 5 Star Books, Book Reviews, Maine 1 Comment

In Anticipation of Thanksgiving (new poem by Polly Castor)

November 17, 2017November 17, 2017 by Polly Castor
In Anticipation of Thanksgiving (poem by Polly Castor)

Stocking up on groceries
for our family to come home,
packing the refrigerator,
full to the gills,

Categories Poetry Tags Fall, Holidays, Poetry by me 3 Comments

Chambers of the Heart (New Large Abstract Painting)

November 16, 2017 by Polly Castor
Chambers of the Heart (abstract painting in acrylic) by Polly Castor

Here is my latest painting titled Chambers of the Heart. It is large: 36″x36″ and done in acrylic. This one feels more authentic to me than the ones I did in Vermont last week. I love this size and shape!

Categories Art Tags Abstract Art, Acrylic Paintings 1 Comment

November is a Deep Breath

November 15, 2017November 15, 2017 by Polly Castor
November is a Deep Breath

No longer between the seasons, the russet of our gratitude, the bronze of our resilience, the burnt sienna of our self-sacrifice — all spill richly along the warm dark.

Categories Ideas, Poetry Tags Fall, Quotes Leave a comment

Pond House Sunrises

November 14, 2017 by Polly Castor
Pond House Sunrises

This blog reader’s Pond House is glorious and I am so thankful for the serenity and beauty of my recent stay.

Categories Photography Tags community, Sunsets, Travel Leave a comment

Badass Librarians of Timbuktu (Book Review)

November 13, 2017 by Polly Castor
Badass Librarians of Timbuktu (Book Review)

This is a non-fiction book about the rescue of 350,000 precious manuscripts in Timbuktu from Taliban destruction. I give it three stars.

Categories Books Tags Book Reviews, non-fiction 1 Comment

Lust Versus Love

November 12, 2017 by Polly Castor
Lust versus Love

Here is a clear and concise look at the contrasts between lust and love.

Categories Hope, Ideas, Spirituality Tags life lessons, Mindfulness, Release, Spiritual Healing 1 Comment

Other Recent Photos of Vermont

November 11, 2017 by Polly Castor
Other Recent Photos of Vermont

Here are my other photos from last weekend’s visit to Vermont. I enjoyed the landscape, and went to the Vermont Country Store , as well as some good restaurants…

Categories Photography Tags Nature, Restaurants, Travel Leave a comment

Expressions in Paint Workshop by Claire Desjardins

November 13, 2017November 10, 2017 by Polly Castor
Expressions in Paint Workshop by Claire DesJardins

Here are my notes and photos from Clair Desjardin’s Expressions in Paint workshop at the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, Vermont.

Categories Art Tags Abstract Art, education, Featured Artists 1 Comment

Three New Non-Objective Paintings (that I don’t love)

November 9, 2017November 9, 2017 by Polly Castor
Caught in a Web of Your Own Devising (mixed media) by Polly Castor

I made these three big paintings (36″x36″) in a worksop in Vermont last weekend.I don’t really like these; I was merely following the exercises and this is where that took me.

Categories Art Tags Abstract Art, Acrylic Paintings 2 Comments
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Reviews from Readers

The Spirit at work is so well described here. In between the lines I read that
our only true peace is in pleasing Our Creator! Thank you deeply, Polly!

This blog deeply resonates while being beautiful, delicious, inspiring, and fun. Not easy to do!

I LOVE YOU!!

You amuse-inspire-edify-entertain-inform-uplift-enhance-educate-color!-…my days!

Thank you for your efforts. I look forward to your positive thoughts and love.

This is absolutely beautiful and so incredibly helpful and inspiring! Thank you so much! ❤️

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

Really beautiful, very hope filled. I love this!

Just a wonderland of possibilities and ideas and the materials to explore and discover. What a beautiful, exciting place! I’ve taken all this glory into my heart today and am grateful for it.

I love your website, messages, poems and art. Thank you for the blessing of community that you provide.

I never before found computers this beautiful….

I think one reason I enjoy your blog is that you Stand Forth In All Your God-given Glory, expressing everything Good!

Thank you for revealing this idea you’ve been following. I can tell when an angel has tapped me on the shoulder–it feels light and right and fun.

I did your tomato tart a few days ago, and it was fabulous! I am vegetarian and look for meals I can make that have lots of flavor. Your tart was just perfect!

You are such an inspiring person, Polly, and I love the variety of your activities you share with us all! Thank you so much.

Thank you for this. Read it. Gave me hope. Going through an “unsure” time. Thank you for these words of strength, hope, and faith.

Wow, super powerful and definitely what I needed to hear today.

You are such a gem Polly- it is an incredible blessing to daily read your blog!

Thanks, Polly, for listening so carefully and sharing so selflessly.

I LOVE THIS BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing the joy of your trip with us. I feel blessed this morning to know you in all the ways you reveal good and magnify it.

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I did your 52 books challenge, and loved the structure that it provided to my selections. Doing it again this year too!

Your multiple images and vocabulary choices give energy and renewed resolve to flagging spirits. Thank you for sharing.

Quite unforgettable. You truly have a way with words:warm; strong; inviting; enlightening; so substantive, and more.

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I so enjoyed your trip blog. The outstanding photos and the amazing narratives made me feel I was on vacation for a few minutes each day.

This is a beautiful summary and reminder of how we can both individually and collectively dissolve the powerless, baseless lies with Truth. Thank you, Polly!!

I just had to comment on today’s blog. I LOVED it! I have had similar thoughts for some time.

Well said Polly!

Life is so exciting we should limit ourselves less!

Let’s all have a productive day and be joyful!

Every day I look forward to your blog. It’s encouraging me to find ways to express what God reveals in me.

You brighten my life with your thoughts, views, words, pictures….

Your reading challenge has inspired me and given me permission to read again, as previously I had just fitted reading round everything else. Now it is a legitimate activity in my life and I am enjoying it immensely!

Thank you Polly, for saying what needs to be said.

Polly….I’m happier because of you; I sure do thank you.

We are so blessed with your access to nature and your talent to communicate visually….

Outstanding message! And a sure “wake-up” call for me regarding mortal decline. I’m off on a refreshing direction. Thanks, Polly.

Polly, your wonderful blog is doing more than its bit in this dreadful time. Thanks, and keep on keeping on!

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

It’s a rare inspiration that can uncover an aching joy — but those poems do that. Thanks for sharing this with us.

I just want to say that I have really been enjoying your blog! It gives me hope for the world…

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You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

I appreciate your blog. It’s a breath of fresh air, beauty, and innovative thinking!

Thank you for sharing this.
Strange, nothing surprising here.
You are who you are.

What a breath of fresh air!! Thank you for your honesty, integrity and willingness to speak out for Truth and Justice!!!

Your zest for the good things in life makes me feel happy too!

These photos are so wonderful, it really warms the heart.

Today’s post was a Gift from God. Opening your email this morning truly lifted my Spirit. Thank you.

Graciously and lovingly spoken, like a true friend to all. Thank you for your blog Polly.

Thanks so much for this recommendation Polly. We watched in awe … and have recommended in turn.

Magnificent poem. How blest you are to be a poet, photographer, artist, metaphysician, all wrapped up into One.

LOVE it. Made me smile while I was reading it.

Your food is presented in such an artistic way that it looks beautiful, wholesome and totally delicious!!

Love your blog’s colour and joyfulness and the inspiring leads, Polly. Easy to see why you are much loved. Thank you.

A wonderful poem Polly! Thank you. Deeply nourishing….

This is relevant and an excellent way for me to look at some situations I have been in recently.
Thank you Polly.
I will continue to benefit…

That definitely sounds like a book I’d like to read! Thanks Polly!

What an inspiring and uplifting painting. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with the world!

Love the photos, as usual. You are a Creative Genius, Polly.

Love all you do and express. You’re an amazing role model!!

I really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

Keep up the good work. You are an inspiration! I love reading your blog with it’s many insights.

I get so happy when I see your paintings. I really do. They bring me such joy. I feel your heart when I see them.

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

I am so happy to have found your site and to be able to enjoy your expression of Spirit! Love your poetry, your photos, your ideas, your …YOU! THANK you for sharing so abundantly!

A powerful message. Thank you for getting it out there.

Thanks for the nudge!

You continue to inspire, impress, and
amaze me, Polly.

Beautiful and profoundly perfect for pandemic season, your poem empowers hope for what’s next. I plan to read it at Sunday Devotional. Thank you!

Thank you for all the inspiration you share so generously. I am deeply grateful!

I love this poem! Letting our true, authentic self come forth! Yes!! Thank you for all the delightful imagery!

Oh so beautiful! I keep coming back to look at the paintings again.

Wow. Yes, quite something to contemplate. Thank you, Polly!!

Such a complete radiance of Soul you are demonstrating. I find it very inspiring!

This couldn’t possibly be more perfect, – so reassuring, and so fully expresses in every way what we all are praying for. Thank you for your a beautiful heart and generous giving of it!!

Gorgeous new work. I love the vitality of the city scenes and vibrant color palette.

I really enjoy reading your blog – but I have to say that your monthly ‘Bits and Clips’ posts and your ‘Grace Notes’ posts are my favorite :)

Your poem feels like a lesson, a treatment, and a love letter all rolled into one perfect package.
Thank you, Polly.

This is a fantastic article Polly…so much in it, I know I’ll have to re read it at least twice more!

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

What a fine piece! You certainly are a shining example….[it] was uplifting and instructive.

I have so enjoyed your recent posts– about your garden, your reflections about parenting, your vibrant artwork– so many wonderful expressions of Spirit.

Polly always captures the balance between what I can do, and all the miracles I am given.

Thank you for using this platform to share these references for listening & learning. Now the work required to make a lasting change is up to each of us! ❤️

Thank you for all your uplifting daily contributions, wherever form they take – photos, recipes, artwork, book reviews and smiley faces!

This is such a beautiful and loving blog and feels much like your amazing dynamic spiritual art. You are proving and sharing truth in a precious, creative, encouraging, and heartfelt way. You inspire me!

I must find the higher spiritual path that nature often helps me see. Thank you for this beautiful poem.

Providing us with wonderful refreshment, enlightenment, peace, encouragement, joy,
and a whole lot more. Thanks, Polly!

Well done Polly, I love your book reviews! Please carry on the good work of guiding our book choices.

I am simply amazed at the wealth of beauty, soul, and experience. Love it. Love you! Thank You for sharing your innermost so openly.

Thanks, Polly! Your zest for the good things in life makes me feel happy too!

Putting the art of poetry, photography and painting into your hands is God’s gift to us who get to read it and see it. Thanks.

I wanted you to know that I found the time I spent on your blog to be relaxing, refreshing, inspiring, and totally enjoyable.

Absolutely beautiful!!! I love these particular colors together and the different styles and techniques really give it a lot of depth and texture. Brilliant!!!!

Thank you, Polly, for bringing clarity to the stressful events we’re experiencing. Your insights are thought-provoking and inspirational. I’m very thankful for your blog.

I am a silent regular reader of your daily blog, and I’m finally in touch to tell you how much I like it. I love it!

Polly! I love this poem! Letting our true, authentic self come forth! Yes!! Thank you for all the delightful imagery!

Love your blog. Today’s was dynamite, and very helpful for understanding our role as individuals at this time.

Beautiful photos! All that color, texture & gorgeous pattern….

Polly lets her spirituality into her art as you can see in the many abstract paintings she creates. We were wowed by her ability and her encouragement of others to express themselves artistically.

I am grateful for the myriad ways you celebrate Life in your art, activities and relationships. Your blog is inspiring in its magnification of Soulful goodness!

Everything on your site is so colorful, spiritual and alive!

Your photos have opened my eyes to the beauty surrounding us everywhere.

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

You are … just plain wonderful, Polly! Your blog is bursting with poetry, art, writings, love of God, family, friends, all things great and wonderful and good!

Thankful every morning to see another treasure from you in my emails !

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

What a delight to experience the beauty of nature you shared of your slice of the world through these beautiful photos.

Thank you so much for this thoughtful, informative and articulate book review, Polly!

I have to tell you that your spiritual to-do list was the springboard for a great talk with my older daughter. We are going to check on each other, and progress.

Thank you for the joy you share. I look forward to reading your posts!

This is spectacular, Polly! I love it!

I can’t tell you how helpful this has been to me today. I must’ve read it half a dozen times or more. It’s helping me with a great challenge. Thank you!

Thank you Polly–you are always such a clear thinker and always willing to share your God-given gifts.

How blessed we are to have someone like you on this Earth.

Your blog captures a life well lived, constantly imparting good– truth, health and happiness– including beauty, harmony, art, science to the world.

I loved this book, Polly. Thank you so much for the recommendation.

Neat! Love the black and white contrasts enhanced by the light.

I am touched by this well thought out, well written essay. You have put into words what so many of us have in our minds and hearts. Thank you!

I made your fabulous Fish Tacos and they were BEYOND delicious!!

So beautiful, Polly. Thank you for spelling out – through such artful means – the beauty of patience.

Polly, thanks for “amplifying good”. That’s what you really do!

You have a great eye for beauty Polly. I love your blog.

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

This blog is simultaneously simple and profound– a perfect, balanced combination of seriousness and light.

Polly this is absolutely exquisite and so inspiring. I will refer to it often.

This blog is so prolific and original, inspiring and joy producing.

Thank you Polly for this article on supply! I cherish the healing thoughts therein very much, and they are very helpful.

I love the photos – such a gift which makes me feel closer to Fall, my favorite season.

Excellent. Thank you for sharing this welcome thought to redirect today’s thinking.
I am grateful for this blog.

Polly, you have such a great feel for things. I will enjoy you forever.

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

Perspective is everything – and choosing a liberating one blesses everyone, as you point out!

I love your coffee cake recipe, I have a book list from your blog, I love the photos, the poems, the paintings, the movie reviews, the humor, the honesty, the color.

Polly, I’m grateful for you, your prayerful work, your blog, your art, photos, words and colors.

With its awesome art, recipes, book reviews, and really excellent writing, this blog is the perfect corner of the internet.

Oh my gosh how did you know I needed this today? I am in absolute awe of your thorough and articulate way you describe how all of this works.

I read and feel the security of the hearth and home. Many thanks…

Your blog has inspired me to get back into painting, cooking, prayer and meditation.

You show us how God’s love shines in all things. You are a blessing!

These are awesome. You have such a gift for photography…and for pastels…and for cooking…and for finding interesting books…and, and, and. Where does it end?

You are doing so wonderfully at praising God with your talents.

Thank you for Saying So Well What Needs To Be SAID!

Hoping others can/will read this…

Thank you for the constant good thoughts and beautiful expressions of love and joy that you share on your blog.

Thank you for writing this opinion so eloquently, Polly. You have addressed many nuances that I have been espousing for years, and your words are powerful and thought-provoking.

You encourage me to grow with your everyday wisdom and your lovely contributions.

Beautiful photos. It is uplifting and energizing to see such bright, cheerful, healthy and fresh images. Thanks, I needed that!

These thoughts you shared are a keeper for me to revisit when in need. You are a blessing to many!

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

Thank you for sharing such a personal, and at the same time, universal, love of beauty.

I’m so grateful for all you share with us.

Illuminating thoughts, thank you for sharing them. Very clear.

You are so incredibly sweet, gracious, kind, thoughtful, creative, generous, joyful, witty, courageous, tender, persistent, compassionate, brilliant, articulate, ad infinitum!

I love your swirling universes, the spirals that draw one in and introduce us to ourselves.

When I open my email in the morning I read all the have-to emails first; I save yours to read as dessert. Thanks, Polly!

I’ve just finished this book and I loved it! Thanks for recommending it.

I for one want to thank you so much for writing this blog. I started about a year ago and look forward to reading it every day. I feel like an armchair adventurer…

Love your pastels!

Thank you for your transparency of love, your generous sharing of what you are pondering and doing.

Love your blog. Today’s is dynamite and very helpful to viewing our role as individuals at this time.

Thank you so.much, Polly. It says with abundant clarity what thousands upon thousands of thoughtful men and women think and believe. I appreciate you!!

What lovely Soul-inspired insights! Thank you for these great ideas!

I am so grateful for your generous sharing of ideas across so many different fields! Your colorful art, your beautiful photography, your tasty looking and well presented dishes, your uplifting ideas, your insightful book reviews, and your wonderful healing work! You truly are a polymath!! I so look forward to your daily offerings and rejoice in them all.

You are an inspiration to me, and I’m sure to many others. With appreciation for all you do to magnify good!

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

What an incredible blessing and inspiration you are. Thank you so much for your beautiful heart!

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

Deep and encompassing. Passionate and motherly. Loving and expansive. The photos speak volumes too…and I see the connections with the poem perfectly.

Thank you for sharing this quote. It is very appropriate for our times. A beautiful wake up call to change our thinking and focus on what is real and true.

I enjoy your strong, bold artwork– there is so much going on in them that my imagination takes off. I really appreciate your blog. It brings joy every day.

How blessed we are to have someone like you on this Earth.

I love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited joy.

This blog is a daily dose from an spiritually-oriented, artist, thinker, sage.

Wow!! I cannot wait to try this recipe! Thank you!

The colors are exquisite!!! Thanks for bringing so much beauty into our lives.

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

What a stunning place! It is just a slice of heaven. Thank you for sharing its beauty.

I find the ideas you share on your blog very encouraging in having a sense of order when it comes to goals and priorities.

This is absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

Oh yum, Polly… These gorgeous photos made my mouth water and my eyes pop!

Thank you Polly!! This has needed to be said for a while!

Wish I had gotten this message 75 years ago. It makes so much sense and would have saved me a lot of self criticism. I love your blog.

This blog is upbeat, progressive, sincere, colorful, metaphoric, and exploratory. Such a rich feast!

Your blog is uplifting and enlightening, and seems to speak to me just when I need it most.

Thank you for expanding my ways to see, Polly.

I truly love and am inspired by your blog, including capturing the beauty of life in the moment, teaching by example, taking time with children, and spirituality.

So beautiful and I have shared it with so many others. Thank you!

Yummy and beautiful! I love all the colors and this food looks amazing! The plates too!

Absolutely stunning, Polly. I love the infinite range of ideas, expression, and media in this BIG blog of yours.

Polly, I am absolutely amazed. My mouth was watering! I’ll be thinking about it all night…and tomorrow we will break out the paints!

Your abstracts are interesting and you have a unique style that is all your own. Original, demonstrating individuality and confidence! I see joy and love expressed.

I have just started this book and am really loving it! Thank you so much for recommending it.

The Brussels sprouts were an exceptionally BIG hit here…. could you direct me to more literature on spiritual healing?

I feel such gratitude for the beautiful way in which you express God. Thanks for blessing my life and being such a shining light in the world!

I’m new to your site and I love today’s post about being grateful!

I always appreciate your reviews. Our fave film in 2019 was The Green Book – which we watched following your recommendation.

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

Just beautiful, Polly. So honest and uplifting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and the helpful ones of others.

Polly, your reflection of Soul’s endless creativity is truly wonderful! Thank you for letting the divine shine through you so brightly!

Thank you for this exercise in balance, Polly. Helps a lot!

Thank you so much for your fantastic, soulful images– your photos really capture the love, joy, camaraderie, power, and intensity of the present moment.

I think you have covered absolutely every way anyone would wish to be blessed

Thank you sincerely for your joyful out-pouring of love, light, color, comforting, inspiring words…

WOW! Polly! Some truly marvelous work there!!!

Thank you for focusing in on and capturing the little things we so often pass by and/or take for granted.

I salute you! And I sure do thank you for inspiring me to greater efforts along all lines of life!

Thank you for the insight. Especially separating church from a building or denomination. The passion and joy of color in your paintings is marvelous.

This is one of the BEST explanations of one’s understanding of God I have seen in a long time. The image paired with the text was spot on!

I loved this post! It gave me much to think about. Thank you for being such a beautiful and prolific source of inspiration. You are a wonder! I’m a fan!

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

You are my favorite artist. I just have to say it. Your paintings make me so happy.

Thank you for bringing to light and sharing an undeniably important part of the one stupendous whole we all share…the countless ways beyond sight, and not to be missed, always at hand.

I want to express my gratitude to you for such a well thought out essay. I found it quite enriching and resonate with those true answers.

I appreciate the joy, inspiration, and great information you provide us in your blogs.

The last day of the month on your blog is always a BIG treat . . . This morning I went from fasting to feasting . . .

Loved your plein air painting, the pictures of the garden plenty — oh wow. Love opening your blog each day — it is a treat that I save sometimes.

Lovely Polly! You are an inspiration! I am so happy to have your blog in my life!

Thank you for introducing me to wonderful, amazing authors.
Love the pictures of your elegant flowers.

Thank you for your ultra positive, upbeat, cheering and cheerful expressions in so many forms. What great seeds to sow in world thought!

Yes, healing does happen when we deeply and humbly pray. Thanks for keeping that idea alive.

Thank you Polly for sharing those wise words! I heartily agree with them all now I have a bigger perspective on life.

Once again, you have come through for us with such clear and coherent thinking and put into words the feelings in our hearts.

Thank you! I enjoy reading your notes from the Bible Lesson. Your interpretation is helpful for my thought and I’m sure many others.

I look forward to your messages each day, like a delightful gift to unwrap.

I love that you live such an active life, have so many interests, and share your insights with me. Your blog is like a conversation with a dear friend.

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

Hi Polly, loved this poem. It radiates hope and feeling of calmness. I am glad I came across these beautiful words. Keep posting similar reads and spreading positivity.

Grace is a beautiful quality and you exude it in spades – thanks so much for all you do and are! You are a treasure!

That’s all very helpful for me today, Polly. Thanks for going deep on this. I’m sharing your joy in our Source.

Wow! Love the abundance of exotic shapes and colours in the Autumn sunshine!

Your posts are treasure troves of your beautiful and giving heart.

Thank you so much for this wonderful insight! You put into words what I have been grappling with for a long time. This is just what I needed today.

I have tremendous admiration for your strength, your depth, your compassion, your passion and your love. You are a woman deeply filled to the brim…

I have been blessed beyond words by your daily posts. I often quote you to others, saying I got the idea from a wonderful friend I’ve never actually met.

Oh how I love this! Thank you, thank you!

Helen Frankenthaler’s works were interesting, but I like your abstracts better.

I’m grateful for you opening my eyes to the wonders that surround us.

Oh my goodness Polly, this is absolutely magnificent and reaches so far deep into my soul.

A wonderful poem Polly! Thank you. Deeply nourishing…. like a bird, natural and beautiful, just singing out truth in her special song on a fine winter morning.

You are such an inspirational person Polly! I love everything you share with us – such a joy to have your daily input in my inbox! X x x

Thank you Polly for your radiant joy and embrace of each of us, wrapping us in your color and beauty of Soul.

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

Thanks for sharing from the seat of your soul with generosity and openness.

WONDERFUL blog, Polly! Thank you for your spiritual calm, support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. I am just left in awe !

Love the poem so so much and the first painting with the trees is INCREDIBLE!!

Thank you for your generosity and your overflowing sense of soul which you share so beautifully and articulately with everyone!!

Way to go on your artistic journey. You show great courage, humility, and such support for everyone around you.

It is always refreshing to see the loves, joys, challenges, and triumphs that you share on your blog.

I love this poem, Polly, and I shall read it often! I feel sure it will help lift my thought to healing.

Without a doubt my life has been enriched and uplifted by my acquaintance with you through your blogs. Every day I look for the interesting ideas you amplify and the lovely arts you share with us. I am never disappointed.

You share so freely, with so so so much love and joy and an open-open-heart…

Thank you for your efforts. I look forward to your positive thoughts and love.

Thank you for bringing your hydrangeas into my home via the internet. Other flowers are lovely too, but hydrangeas are SPECIAL.

I am so totally impressed with your photography, poetry, and painting.Your talent is incredible!!!

You capture so vividly the beauty of nature. Thank you for bringing such beauty into my every day.

Well Done! This is such a wonderful venture. Your work is just extraordinary!

Glorious! Thank you for tending these lovely flowers together, and for posting on your blog, Polly.

What a beautiful spirit you have, shining right through your source.

Polly, what amazing and timely insight in these wise words! Thanks for sharing this wisdom.

Thank you for your commitment to reality and our true nature!

I am one of your readers who definitely looks forward to a positive message from you every morning. You grow people.

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

Really enjoyed your poem on Animal magnetism. Very clear truths. Thank you. Your vibrant art work is superb.

Synesthesia! I can taste the yellows and hear the oranges! A feast to the senses! Brava talented Polly

I enjoy your blog so much. But today you are on top. Every thought you expressed so lovingly…. some very funny but always with love. Thank you for all you bring to so many .

I love your blog! I shared it with my mom, an artist, and she is impressed with your art. I’ve also spent time studying your paintings. Just listened to your interview, it was stellar! Thank you!!

I’m so grateful to be able to enjoy all you so generously share on your blog, the colorful photos, the recipes, the art works, the insights, the book reviews and so much more!

The phrase ‘divine choreography’ is resonating with me. Bless you for sharing your inspiration with us all.

I feel the joy and love of the color and thought in all your work! You are letting your light shine.

Yes indeed! You are a shining light and you are definitely using all your wonderful talents

This is absolutely magnificent. Bless your precious and beautiful soul for sharing this.

Thank you for bringing your beautiful great outdoors into my world.
You do a great job taking pictures. The colors are so vibrant and I like that you notice
shadows.

Wow, you outdid yourself this month with your Bits and Clips. It was a wonderful mix of beauty, humor, and thoughtfulness.

Amazing, Polly! A wonderful example of seeing the possibilities…creativity at its best.

This poem is what I needed to further focus on moving out of the fear of COVID.❤️

Excellent post, dear Polly! Thanks!! There is lots that I relate to in your comments!

My mother adores your blog and speaks to me often about what recent nugget you shared which she thought was wonderful!

Your photos are so vivid and expressive and inspiring and artistic and alive!

Thank you for sharing yourself and creativity in such a transparent way, it is very inspiring and humbling to me.

Your site is bolstering my creative thoughts. I need to put them into action.

This blog is colorful, beautiful, and edifying.

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

Yes, lots of good flavor triggers in there. I printed it out and will try it. Thanks so much!

Thank you for this….I absolutely love reading it!

I just adore all of your wonderful posts and everything that you share so generously. ????? You have a beautiful sense of soul that you share – it blesses me and so many!

All of your work is eye and mind popping. I love it!

Love this– actually so “timely” for what I have been thinking about lately.

Very helpful in these seemingly uncertain times. I found a couple of specific ideas expressed here that apply to a specific situation in my life. Thank you!

I just love your photos, Polly. Whether it’s food or art or nature . . . They are always so beautiful and interesting and full of life !

Polly, I love your poem “you were never unwanted”. This poem really hit home. Thank you for your words of wisdom

Polly your blog is simply a marvelously enriching, thought provoking part of the daily wonders of life! I give thanks for you and the blog!

I love your Blog, Polly!! Therefore, I love you! Your art, your poetry, your philosophy, your religion, your book reviews, your photography, your … husband!

Polly, please keep sharing these pages! I love seeing them. You inspired me to do the same thing.

I recently I recommended your blog to a friend saying, “She’s like a dear friend, she just doesn’t know me.” Thank you for all the delight you add to my days!

When you get famous, I need to be the president of your fan club.

Polly, I needed you today and there you were and it was enough. Thank you for being a motivator.

Thank you very much, Polly. You are a bright light!

Your blog is full of the wonderful, multilayered colors and textures that you play with, and share so unselfishly with the world.

Thank you for your burst of sunshine reflected in your positivity this morning… I look forward to your blogs.

Polly, I just love your spirit, innovativeness, receptivity to beauty and to God’s goodness expressed. Thank you for your blog.

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