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Lessons from White Kitchen Floors (Quote by Heather Maio)
By Polly Castor on March 15, 2022Read moreIts only when you ignore problems that they have the chance to grow.
41Other Names for MSG (Avoid Eating These Ingredients)
By Polly Castor on March 14, 2022Read morePlease join me in avoiding all these ingredients masquerading as something other than the well known villainous super-toxin, MSG.
Suicide: Death is not a Way Out
By Polly Castor on March 13, 2022Read moreYou are loved! Choose living and messy hope!
Not Disconnected (New Poem by Polly Castor)
By Polly Castor on March 12, 2022Read moreWe are exactly in our right place in the whole.
Each of Us a Marvel (Pablo Casals quote)
By Polly Castor on March 11, 2022Read moreYou must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Grace Notes #39 (with Photos)
By Polly Castor on March 10, 2022Read moreI am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good.
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...
The 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!