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Beyond Selfie Culture to Balanced Self-Expression
For a more balanced approach to self-expression, pay attention to the internal more than the external, keep your sense of validation between yourself and your own highest ideal…
Polly Answers Your Questions #12
How to overcome a creative slump, grief of a parent’s passing, advice for college freshmen, fires starters…
See it Through (Poem by Edgar A Guest)
When you’re up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face…
“Work, work work, watch, and pray.” (Deep Think #25)
You need all five parts in the right ratio to make your calling and election sure.
Ephemeral Eurekas (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Are you waiting around for a flash of lightning, a bolt of brilliant inspiration?
Reframe that Broken Heart (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Reframe that Broken Heart I’d mentally reframe that broken heart. That is a dangerous identification that you do not want to actualize. Cherish them instead of miss them. Love them unconditionally, instead of being angry with them. Feel your indelible, eternal togetherness, instead of focusing on a forced separation against your will. You are not … Read more
Live Larger (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Live Larger Are you thinking of self? Are you gazing at your navel, and wondering why you are so uninspired? Is your existence narrowing, becoming tight-fisted and defensive? Are your parameters closing in? Are you marinating in a stupor of petty purposes, limiting beliefs, and downward spiraling thoughts? Then set down your tweezers, and start … Read more
Ask the Best Questions and then Live Them
I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…
Don’t Prioritize Your Looks (Poem by Donna Ashworth)
Don’t prioritize your looks my friend, as they won’t last the journey.
The Bible as a Verb (Listen to Me be Interviewed on the Podcast)
You can listen in and hear some of what the Bible says we should be doing.
New Day (Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Polly Answers Your Questions #8 (Christmas prep version)
Here are some advent poems and If you feed anything on this list to your dear ones, they will thank you
Be Ruthless About What You Ignore (James Clear Quote)
You can only deeply commit to a few things. One or two? Maybe three?
What to Say and Do About the Israel/Hamas War
We need to empathize with the innocent on both sides, tell them so, and earnestly pray without ceasing for harmony to reign.