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My Birthday 2024
By Polly Castor on February 8, 2024Read moreThank you for being in my life and making my days and my years so sweet.
61Listen to Your Life (Quote by Frederick Buechner)
By Polly Castor on February 7, 2024Read moreLife itself is grace.
Random Compositions in Ink (Grid Journaling Idea #4)
By Polly Castor on February 6, 2024Read moreUse these little compositions to make yourself explain why a composition works, and why it doesn’t.
Sam Boughton (Featured Artist)
By Polly Castor on February 5, 2024Read moreSam Boughton is an abstract landscape painter whose spare work I admire. Her efficient, decisive mark making is luscious,...
Ask the Best Questions and then Live Them
By Polly Castor on February 3, 2024Read moreI beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...
Six Crimson Cranes (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on February 2, 2024Read moreThis novel might be a good gift for a young someone you know, or maybe, like me, you 'd...
Julie’s Eggplant Parmesan (Recipe)
By Polly Castor on February 1, 2024Read moreThis is one of the best renditions of Eggplant Parmesan you are ever likely to have.
Bits and Clips for January 2024
By Polly Castor on January 31, 2024Read moreI hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, poetry, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on,...
Polly Answers Your Questions #9
By Polly Castor on January 30, 2024Read morePen and ink recommendations, scheduling and balance questions, and church roles.
Two New Red Paintings in Pastel
By Polly Castor on January 29, 2024Read morePeople think pastels need to look chalky or light, and this is not the case!
This (Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
By Polly Castor on January 28, 2024Read moreReplace, for this moment, your fear with awe.