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Keep Your Paintings Simple (Lewis Nobel Quote)
By Polly Castor on July 20, 2024Read moreSo keep it simple, enjoy your painting, and don't fight with it.
50The River We Remember (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on July 19, 2024Read moreIf you like a who-done-it that rings more about the people, place, and time than anything else, you might...
Under the Waterfall (New Large Oil Painting)
By Polly Castor on July 18, 2024Read moreIt is a place at once with thundering energy and spontaneous effervescence, but also of prisms and refraction. It...
Beyond Selfie Culture to Balanced Self-Expression
By Polly Castor on July 17, 2024Read moreFor a more balanced approach to self-expression, pay attention to the internal more than the external, keep your sense...
Cold Cucumber Soup (Recipe)
By Polly Castor on July 16, 2024Read moreThis soup is easy and very delicious, while being light, refreshing, and low in calorie.
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (New Poem by Polly Castor)
By Polly Castor on July 15, 2024Read moreI ask for You to help this country vote for a solution that we can all live with.
Still Life (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on July 13, 2024Read moreThe writing here was excellent, spacious, and full of dialogue. It slowed down my pace considerably, and not in...
Objectively Examine Your Opinions or Beliefs
By Polly Castor on July 12, 2024Read moreAre your opinions and beliefs just mindlessly following the crowd?
Popovers (Recipe)
By Polly Castor on July 11, 2024Read moreThese eggy popovers are great with butter and jam!
Grace Notes (#54 with Photos)
By Polly Castor on July 10, 2024Read moreI am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good.
How to Deal with the Estrangement of an Offspring
By Polly Castor on July 9, 2024Read moreBe patient with both them and yourself, taking blame fully out of the equation.