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Ideas

A Visit to the Isabella Gardner Museum

June 6, 2018June 6, 2018 by Polly Castor
A Visit to the Isabella Gardner Museum

You do feel like you’ve stepped back in time here, and with modern Boston bustling beyond the walls, this place does slow you down to the pace of a previous era.

Categories Art, Ideas, Photography Tags Museums, Travel 1 Comment

Grace Notes #13 (with Photos)

June 3, 2018June 3, 2018 by Polly Castor
Grace Notes #13

Now I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good.

Categories Hope, Ideas Tags grace notes, gratitude, Mindfulness Leave a comment

The Cure for Shyness (Lucille Ball Quote)

May 30, 2018 by Polly Castor
The Cure for Shyness

People didn’t think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn.

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Bits and Clips for May 2018

May 28, 2018May 28, 2018 by Polly Castor
Bits and Clips for May 2018

Happy Memorial Day! Bits and clips is a regular, monthly post captures the best that I read, saw, or heard on the Internet during the month.

Categories Ideas Tags Bits and Clips 1 Comment

We Are All Inextricably Connected (Brene Brown Quote)

May 27, 2018 by Polly Castor
We Are All Inextricably Connected (Brene Brown Quote)

Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

Categories Ideas, Spirituality Tags Quotes Leave a comment

Take My “Art of Seeing” Class (at Camp Newfound in Maine)

May 19, 2018 by Polly Castor
Promotion for the Art of Seeing Class

This is a shameless promotional blurb for the Christian Scientists in this blog community. I’d love to see you there and have you in my class!

Categories Art, Hope, Ideas, Photography, Spirituality Tags Christian Science, education, Maine 3 Comments

Being a Mother (Serena Crawford Quote)

May 13, 2018 by Polly Castor
Between Mother and Child (pastel) by Polly Castor

The biggest surprise of my life was finding out that the best thing that ever happened to me was being a mother…

Categories Hope, Ideas Tags parenting, Quotes, Special Occasions Leave a comment

An Alphabet of What God Is and Isn’t

May 14, 2018May 12, 2018 by Polly Castor
Alphabet of What God is and Isn't

Studying this list helps remind me to claim my own qualities and attributes that are derived directly from God.

Categories Ideas, Spirituality Tags advice, God, life lessons, Mindfulness, Spiritual Healing 3 Comments

We Are Not In Competition (New Poem by Polly Castor)

May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 by Polly Castor
We Are Not In Competition (New Poem by Polly Castor)

You are valid.
Me being valid too
does not make you less so.

Categories Hope, Ideas, Poetry Tags life lessons, Poetry by me Leave a comment

Expect Limitless Good (Edward A. Kimball Quote)

April 29, 2018April 29, 2018 by Polly Castor
Learn to operate according to the law of the divine Mind; learn to let this Mind be in you, for it is the Mind that means health and life and boundless opportunity and recompense.

Learn to operate according to the law of the divine Mind; learn to let this Mind be in you, for it is the Mind that means health and life and boundless opportunity and recompense.

Categories Ideas, Spirituality Tags advice, life lessons, Quotes 1 Comment

Bits and Clips from April 2018

April 28, 2018 by Polly Castor
Bits and Clips from April 2018

I hope you find something here the interests you, lights your fire, ups your game, makes you happy, or inspires you soul.

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Mindset (Book Review)

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 by Polly Castor
Mindset (Book Review)

This is a wonderful book that I think everyone could benefit from reading. I give it five stars.

Categories Books, Homeschooling, Hope, Ideas Tags 5 Star Books, advice, Book Reviews, parenting Leave a comment

Be in Touch with Some Vital Interest

April 24, 2018 by Polly Castor
Be in Touch with Some Vital Interest

Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking…

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Some Links on Eco-Theology for Earth Day

April 22, 2018 by Polly Castor
Some Links on Eco-Theology for Earth Day

For Earth Day, here are some links to articles on eco-theology in the Christian Science periodicals for your prayerful consideration:

Categories Hope, Ideas, Spirituality Tags Christian Science, Prayer, reformation, Special Occasions, Spiritual Healing 1 Comment

Snootzelfruits (& Why We Created This Helpful Word)

April 21, 2018 by Polly Castor
Snootzelfruits

“Snootzelfruits” is a lot more fun than “shouting ‘what’ from other rooms”!

Categories Hope, Ideas, Spirituality Tags advice, life lessons, Memes Leave a comment

Be You Faithfully (Jen Hatmaker Quote)

April 18, 2018 by Polly Castor
Be You Faithfully (Jen Hatmaker Quote)

Be more concerned about being honest than admired. Resist self-preservation & embrace revelation, because the world is looking for someone to tell the whole truth.

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Grace Notes #12 (with Photos)

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018 by Polly Castor
Grace Notes #12

This is a periodic blog feature I call “grace notes.” It occasionally captures my jottings of incidental gratitude.

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Reviews from Readers

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 Polly, for saying what needs to be said.

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

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

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!

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!

Polly, you are a whiz at living life the way it’s meant to be. I’m fascinated by all you do!

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

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

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

This is spectacular, Polly! I love it!

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

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

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.

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

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

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

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

Thank you for expanding my ways to see, Polly.

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

I love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited joy.

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

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

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

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.

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

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

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

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!

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

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 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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

I LOVE YOU!!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

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

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

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

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

Hoping others can/will read this…

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

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!

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!!

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!

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

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!

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

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 :)

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!

This is so well thought out and written. Thank you for this compelling essay. I agree with you on all points, Polly.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

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

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.

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

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

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

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! ❤️

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

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

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

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

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!

Well said Polly!

Life is so exciting we should limit ourselves less!

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

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!

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!

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never before found computers this beautiful….

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.

This blog is colorful, beautiful, and edifying.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

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

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

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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 !

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

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

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

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

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

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!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

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

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…

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

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

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

Wow! What a stunning collection of gorgeous images and though-provoking quotes. They made my day.

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…

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

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

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

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

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

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

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

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

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh how I love this! Thank you, 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 !

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Thanks for the nudge!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

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

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!

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

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!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

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

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

Love your pastels!

Really beautiful, very hope filled. I love this!

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

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

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

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

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