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Artists’ Sunflower Paintings in Honor of Ukraine
By Polly Castor on March 9, 2022Read moreAs our hearts and prayers reach out to those in Ukraine and the surrounding areas, let's cherish the outpouring...
62The Lincoln Highway (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on March 8, 2022Read moreThis is a diverting, circuitous, multi-layered, coming of age escapade, written extraordinarily well.
Eight New Mixed Media Paintings in my Artist Journal
By Polly Castor on March 7, 2022Read moreThis is what I’ve been painting recently in my artist’s journal.
Overcoming Impositions to Spiritual Growth (Quote by Jill Gooding)
By Polly Castor on March 6, 2022Read moreWhen these impeding impositions of error are recognized and overcome, our lives soar...
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Polly’s Mom’s Long Lost Recipe)
By Polly Castor on March 5, 2022Read moreThese an oatmeal raisin cookies made with molasses, are nurturing and warm; they taste like my earliest memories of...
Cleaning, Sorting, Reorganizing, and Reconstituting Pastels
By Polly Castor on March 4, 2022Read moreI did a thorough job on this yearly clean up and it feels great! I'm now ready to paint!
How the Light Comes (Poem by Jan Richardson)
By Polly Castor on March 3, 2022Read moreMy we open and open more and open still to the blessed light that comes.
Shantaram (Book Review with Quotes)
By Polly Castor on March 2, 2022Read moreI now understand the criminal mind better, and got a deeper, more intimate glimpse of India than I'd had...
Prayer for Ukraine
By Polly Castor on March 1, 2022Read moreYours is the only power and You do not allow your unlikeness to prevail.
Moroccan Spiced Carrot Salad with Lentils (Vegan Recipe)
By Polly Castor on February 28, 2022Read moreThis is delicious and different, with both roasted and raw carrots, the warmth of cumin, coriander, garlic and ginger,...
Bits and Clips for February 2022
By Polly Castor on February 27, 2022Read moreI hope you find something inspiring, educational, motivational, beautiful, helpful, challenging or satisfying, in these many paintings, photographs, poems,...
February Abstract Ice Photos from Huntington
By Polly Castor on February 26, 2022Read moreMother nature is fascinating, especially in her most temporal detail.