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New Poem: Put Your Hands Up
By Polly Castor on November 13, 2014Read moreInstead, let go, and yes, you can do it, put your hands up all the way up.
00New Pastel Landscape: Entering the Quarry Early in the Fall
By Polly Castor on November 12, 2014Read moreI finished this pastel landscape yesterday. It is of an early Sunday morning about six weeks ago at the...
New Poem: Pay Attention
By Polly Castor on November 11, 2014Read moreHeed with contemplation how incessant and perpetual and continuing and relentless such a list can be...
Book Review: The Language of Flowers
By Polly Castor on November 10, 2014Read moreI wanted to like this popular book about redemption more than I did.
Movie Review: Tim’s Vermeer
By Polly Castor on November 9, 2014Read moreI loved this film and give it 5 stars. It is fascinating on many different levels. It was interesting...
My Newspaper Article About Evil
By Polly Castor on November 8, 2014Read moreI think we will all ultimately experience evil as impotent, because we will each realize that we prefer to...
Recipe: Cilantro Lime Dressing
By Polly Castor on November 7, 2014Read moreHarvesting the last of this year’s cilantro from the garden, we made a double batch of this wonderful dressing,...
Poem by Galway Kinnell: St. Francis and the Sow
By Polly Castor on November 6, 2014Read moreThe bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of...
Photos from a Walk in Wolfe Park
By Polly Castor on November 5, 2014Read moreThis is a walk that I’ve never done before and found enjoyable...
New Gouache: Dreamtime
By Polly Castor on November 3, 2014Read moreThis piece mixes my appreciation for aboriginal art with my penchant for painting dots and circles.
Recipe: Zucchini Agrodolce
By Polly Castor on November 2, 2014Read moreOf all the copious of new zucchini recipes I tried with our summer’s bumper crop, I liked this one...