homeschooling – Polly Castor

Circe (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on June 19, 2020
This is a compelling retelling of a minor character from the Odyssey.
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A Veteran Homeschooler’s Advice for Homebound Families
By Polly Castor on March 19, 2020
I wrote this to help homebound families find the blessing in their school closures by fortifying their families.
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Fall Semester of my High School Abstract Art Class
By Polly Castor on December 17, 2019
My high school abstract art class did great with pastel! Check out their work!
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Attention is the Beginning of Devotion (Mary Oliver Quote)
By Polly Castor on January 19, 2019
Teach the children. We don’t matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale...
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Student Work in my High School Abstract Art Class
By Polly Castor on December 13, 2018
I teach an Abstract Art class early Monday mornings for homeschooled high schoolers at the Pathways Cooperative in Newtown,...
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California Railroad Museum Photos
By Polly Castor on July 13, 2018
Sacramento was where the Transcontinental Railroad was born, and hence this museum is here.It is a lovely museum worth...
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Good Books About Trains for Children and Young Adults
By Polly Castor on June 23, 2018
Trains is a subject that does not sound like school but has many important lessons none the less, including...
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My Homeschool High School Abstract Art Class
By Polly Castor on May 15, 2018
They now understand some of the range of options one works with when creating an abstract work of art–...
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Art Education and Mental Health
By Polly Castor on October 6, 2017
Would those massacring shooters have done those horrible things if they had enough art in their life? I genuinely...
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Nice Article about our Older Daughter’s Work
By Polly Castor on March 20, 2017
Last week, St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, where our older daughter got her undergraduate degree, put out a...
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Best Poetry Books for Children and Young Adults
By Polly Castor on December 17, 2016
It is a fortunate child who shares these poems with an adult that cares– firelight, fuzzy blankets, cookies, and...
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Best Books About Thanksgiving for Kids
By Polly Castor on November 19, 2016
Here are our favorite books about Thanksgiving for kids. These would be terrific to read to or get in...
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You are so incredibly sweet, gracious, kind, thoughtful, creative, generous, joyful, witty, courageous, tender, persistent, compassionate, brilliant, articulate, ad infinitum!

Yes, lots of good flavor triggers in there. I printed it out and will try it. Thanks so much!

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

Polly, your wonderful blog is doing more than its bit in this dreadful time. Thanks, and keep on keeping on!

You show us how God’s love shines in all things. You are a blessing!

This is absolutely magnificent. Bless your precious and beautiful soul for sharing this.

I just adore all of your wonderful posts and everything that you share so generously. ????? You have a beautiful sense of soul that you share – it blesses me and so many!

Thank you for sharing yourself and creativity in such a transparent way, it is very inspiring and humbling to me.

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

I did your tomato tart a few days ago, and it was fabulous! I am vegetarian and look for meals I can make that have lots of flavor. Your tart was just perfect!

Thank you so much for your fantastic, soulful images– your photos really capture the love, joy, camaraderie, power, and intensity of the present moment.

I wanted you to know that I found the time I spent on your blog to be relaxing, refreshing, inspiring, and totally enjoyable.

Thank you Polly for your radiant joy and embrace of each of us, wrapping us in your color and beauty of Soul.

I look forward to your messages each day, like a delightful gift to unwrap.

I for one want to thank you so much for writing this blog. I started about a year ago and look forward to reading it every day. I feel like an armchair adventurer…

I enjoy your strong, bold artwork– there is so much going on in them that my imagination takes off. I really appreciate your blog. It brings joy every day.

Keep up the good work. You are an inspiration! I love reading your blog with it’s many insights.

Your photos are so vivid and expressive and inspiring and artistic and alive!

A powerful message. Thank you for getting it out there.

Beautiful photos. It is uplifting and energizing to see such bright, cheerful, healthy and fresh images. Thanks, I needed that!

This is absolutely beautiful and so incredibly helpful and inspiring! Thank you so much! ❤️

Your site is bolstering my creative thoughts. I need to put them into action.

Love your blog’s colour and joyfulness and the inspiring leads, Polly. Easy to see why you are much loved. Thank you.

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

What a fine piece! You certainly are a shining example….[it] was uplifting and instructive.

I get so happy when I see your paintings. I really do. They bring me such joy. I feel your heart when I see them.

Your posts are treasure troves of your beautiful and giving heart.

Wow, you outdid yourself this month with your Bits and Clips. It was a wonderful mix of beauty, humor, and thoughtfulness.

Thank you for using this platform to share these references for listening & learning. Now the work required to make a lasting change is up to each of us! ❤️

Loved your plein air painting, the pictures of the garden plenty — oh wow. Love opening your blog each day — it is a treat that I save sometimes.

Thanks for sharing from the seat of your soul with generosity and openness.

Your reading challenge has inspired me and given me permission to read again, as previously I had just fitted reading round everything else. Now it is a legitimate activity in my life and I am enjoying it immensely!

I am a silent regular reader of your daily blog, and I’m finally in touch to tell you how much I like it. I love it!

I have to tell you that your spiritual to-do list was the springboard for a great talk with my older daughter. We are going to check on each other, and progress.

Your abstracts are interesting and you have a unique style that is all your own. Original, demonstrating individuality and confidence! I see joy and love expressed.

I never before found computers this beautiful….

Thank you for bringing your hydrangeas into my home via the internet. Other flowers are lovely too, but hydrangeas are SPECIAL.

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

You are … just plain wonderful, Polly! Your blog is bursting with poetry, art, writings, love of God, family, friends, all things great and wonderful and good!

Love this– actually so “timely” for what I have been thinking about lately.

This blog is simultaneously simple and profound– a perfect, balanced combination of seriousness and light.

Your blog is uplifting and enlightening, and seems to speak to me just when I need it most.

Magnificent poem. How blest you are to be a poet, photographer, artist, metaphysician, all wrapped up into One.

This is a beautiful summary and reminder of how we can both individually and collectively dissolve the powerless, baseless lies with Truth. Thank you, Polly!!

Thank you for sharing such a personal, and at the same time, universal, love of beauty.

The Brussels sprouts were an exceptionally BIG hit here…. could you direct me to more literature on spiritual healing?

I truly love and am inspired by your blog, including capturing the beauty of life in the moment, teaching by example, taking time with children, and spirituality.

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

Thank you Polly for this article on supply! I cherish the healing thoughts therein very much, and they are very helpful.

I want to express my gratitude to you for such a well thought out essay. I found it quite enriching and resonate with those true answers.

These photos are so wonderful, it really warms the heart.

You encourage me to grow with your everyday wisdom and your lovely contributions.

You have a great eye for beauty Polly. I love your blog.

Thank you for the constant good thoughts and beautiful expressions of love and joy that you share on your blog.

Absolutely stunning, Polly. I love the infinite range of ideas, expression, and media in this BIG blog of yours.

Thank you for your transparency of love, your generous sharing of what you are pondering and doing.

You are such a gem Polly- it is an incredible blessing to daily read your blog!

Polly, I just love your spirit, innovativeness, receptivity to beauty and to God’s goodness expressed. Thank you for your blog.

Grace is a beautiful quality and you exude it in spades – thanks so much for all you do and are! You are a treasure!

WONDERFUL blog, Polly! Thank you for your spiritual calm, support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. I am just left in awe !

Glorious! Thank you for tending these lovely flowers together, and for posting on your blog, Polly.

Quite unforgettable. You truly have a way with words: warm; strong; inviting; enlightening; so substantive, and more.

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

You are my favorite artist. I just have to say it. Your paintings make me so happy.

Excellent post, dear Polly! Thanks!! There is lots that I relate to in your comments!

What an incredible blessing and inspiration you are. Thank you so much for your beautiful heart!

I have just started this book and am really loving it! Thank you so much for recommending it.

LOVE it. Made me smile while I was reading it.

What a beautiful spirit you have, shining right through your source.

Polly, you are a whiz at living life the way it’s meant to be. I’m fascinated by all you do!

I am so happy to have found your site and to be able to enjoy your expression of Spirit! Love your poetry, your photos, your ideas, your …YOU! THANK you for sharing so abundantly!

I just want to say that I have really been enjoying your blog! It gives me hope for the world…

Polly, your reflection of Soul’s endless creativity is truly wonderful! Thank you for letting the divine shine through you so brightly!

Yes, healing does happen when we deeply and humbly pray. Thanks for keeping that idea alive.

Every day I look forward to your blog. It’s encouraging me to find ways to express what God reveals in me.

I recently I recommended your blog to a friend saying, “She’s like a dear friend, she just doesn’t know me.” Thank you for all the delight you add to my days!

Love all you do and express. You’re an amazing role model!!

I have tremendous admiration for your strength, your depth, your compassion, your passion and your love. You are a woman deeply filled to the brim…

The phrase ‘divine choreography’ is resonating with me. Bless you for sharing your inspiration with us all.

Love your blog. Today’s is dynamite and very helpful to viewing our role as individuals at this time.

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

I am simply amazed at the wealth of beauty, soul, and experience. Love it. Love you! Thank You for sharing your innermost so openly.

Lovely Polly! You are an inspiration! I am so happy to have your blog in my life!

Your blog captures a life well lived, constantly imparting good– truth, health and happiness– including beauty, harmony, art, science to the world.

This blog deeply resonates while being beautiful, delicious, inspiring, and fun. Not easy to do!

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

I love your coffee cake recipe, I have a book list from your blog, I love the photos, the poems, the paintings, the movie reviews, the humor, the honesty, the color.

This is a fantastic article Polly…so much in it, I know I’ll have to re read it at least twice more!

Just beautiful, Polly. So honest and uplifting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and the helpful ones of others.

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

It is always refreshing to see the loves, joys, challenges, and triumphs that you share on your blog.

Polly this is absolutely exquisite and so inspiring. I will refer to it often.

You are an inspiration to me, and I’m sure to many others. With appreciation for all you do to magnify good!

Thank you sincerely for your joyful out-pouring of love, light, color, comforting, inspiring words…

What an inspiring and uplifting painting. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with the world!

You are doing so wonderfully at praising God with your talents.

Very helpful in these seemingly uncertain times. I found a couple of specific ideas expressed here that apply to a specific situation in my life. Thank you!

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

Thank you so much for this wonderful insight! You put into words what I have been grappling with for a long time. This is just what I needed today.

I feel the joy and love of the color and thought in all your work! You are letting your light shine.

Thank you for your ultra positive, upbeat, cheering and cheerful expressions in so many forms. What great seeds to sow in world thought!

Thanks, Polly, for listening so carefully and sharing so selflessly.

Wow, super powerful and definitely what I needed to hear today.

My mother adores your blog and speaks to me often about what recent nugget you shared which she thought was wonderful!

Thank you Polly!! This has needed to be said for a while!

I am so totally impressed with your photography, poetry, and painting. Your talent is incredible!!!

Love your blog. Today’s was dynamite, and very helpful for understanding our role as individuals at this time.

I so enjoyed your trip blog. The outstanding photos and the amazing narratives made me feel I was on vacation for a few minutes each day.

Thank you for your burst of sunshine reflected in your positivity this morning… I look forward to your blogs.

I loved this post! It gave me much to think about. Thank you for being such a beautiful and prolific source of inspiration. You are a wonder! I’m a fan!

I have so enjoyed your recent posts– about your garden, your reflections about parenting, your vibrant artwork– so many wonderful expressions of Spirit.

I did your 52 books challenge, and loved the structure that it provided to my selections. Doing it again this year too!

Everything on your site is so colorful, spiritual and alive!

Thank you for all the inspiration you share so generously. I am deeply grateful!

Your blog is full of the wonderful, multilayered colors and textures that you play with, and share so unselfishly with the world.

This blog is upbeat, progressive, sincere, colorful, metaphoric, and exploratory. Such a rich feast!

Such a complete radiance of Soul you are demonstrating. I find it very inspiring!

Putting the art of poetry, photography and painting into your hands is God’s gift to us who get to read it and see it. Thanks.

Hi Polly, loved this poem. It radiates hope and feeling of calmness. I am glad I came across these beautiful words. Keep posting similar reads and spreading positivity.

I made your fabulous Fish Tacos and they were BEYOND delicious!!

I salute you! And I sure do thank you for inspiring me to greater efforts along all lines of life!

I always appreciate your reviews. Our fave film in 2019 was The Green Book – which we watched following your recommendation.

Way to go on your artistic journey. You show great courage, humility, and such support for everyone around you.

I feel such gratitude for the beautiful way in which you express God. Thanks for blessing my life and being such a shining light in the world!

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

Thank you for the joy you share. I look forward to reading your posts!

When I open my email in the morning I read all the have-to emails first; I save yours to read as dessert. Thanks, Polly!

You are such an inspiring person, Polly, and I love the variety of your activities you share with us all! Thank you so much.

WOW! Polly! Some truly marvelous work there!!!

Thank you Polly–you are always such a clear thinker and always willing to share your God-given gifts.

I love that you live such an active life, have so many interests, and share your insights with me. Your blog is like a conversation with a dear friend.

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

Polly, I am absolutely amazed. My mouth was watering! I’ll be thinking about it all night…and tomorrow we will break out the paints!

Oh yum, Polly… These gorgeous photos made my mouth water and my eyes pop!

I’m grateful for you opening my eyes to the wonders that surround us.