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Main Dish

Unconstructed Fish Taco (Recipe)

July 22, 2020July 17, 2020 by Polly Castor
Unconstructed Limey Fish Taco Recipe

There are perfectly summery for this time of year! They are delicious, colorful, and simple to prepare.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, seafood, Whole30 3 Comments

Patty Pan Squash and Tilapia Stir Fry (recipe)

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 by Polly Castor
Patty Pan squash and Tilapia Stir Fry Recipe

This is easy, quick, and delicious! Have you even cooked a patty pan squash before?

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood, Whole30 3 Comments

Dinner Party Recipes (Moroccan Cod Tagine and Honeydew with Pistachios)

June 20, 2020June 20, 2020 by Polly Castor
Cod Tagine

Here are the recipes from a fabulously delicious dinner party we were recently grateful to attend.

Categories Food Tags community, Main Dish, Recipes, Salads, seafood 1 Comment

Indian Style Vegetable Curry (Recipe)

May 12, 2020May 11, 2020 by Polly Castor
Indian Style Vegetable Curry Recipe

This keeper recipe tastes like the best of Indian take-out. Chop everything first, then this comes together quickly.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, Vegan, vegetarian 3 Comments

Curried Tuna Cakes (Recipe)

August 18, 2023May 2, 2020 by Polly Castor
Curried Tuna Cakes Recipe

Need to make something nourishing fast? These are quick, delicious, and made with pantry ingredients.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood, Whole30 5 Comments

Lemon Dijon Halibut (Recipe)

April 23, 2020 by Polly Castor
Lemon Dijon Halibut recipe

This recipe is quick, delicious, healthy, and good enough for company, while easy enough for a weeknight.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood, Whole30 3 Comments

Sweet Potato Bean Burgers with Yogurt Sauce (Recipe)

April 15, 2020 by Polly Castor
Sweet Potato Bean Burgers with Yogurt sauce Recipe

These are yummy, easy, nutritious, and filling.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, Vegan, vegetarian 3 Comments

Pineapple Shrimp Scampi (Recipe)

June 23, 2020April 11, 2020 by Polly Castor
Pineapple Shrimp Scampi Recipe

This is both delicious and easy, and is destined to become a classic over here.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood, Whole30 4 Comments

Shrimp Cabbage Pad Thai (Recipe)

June 10, 2024February 5, 2020 by Polly Castor
Shrimp cabbage Pad Thai recipe

This is a good alternative for making pad thai. We’ll be returning to this a lot.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, sea food 1 Comment

Spinach Falafel (Recipe)

February 27, 2020January 31, 2020 by Polly Castor
Spinach Falafel recipe

We are liking this freshened up version of the perennial vegetarian classic. Give it a try.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, Vegan, vegetarian 1 Comment

Spicy Shrimp on Mashed Potatoes (Recipe)

April 19, 2021January 25, 2020 by Polly Castor
Spicy shrimp on mashed potatoes (recipe)

Try this really good spicy tomato sauce as gravy for shrimp and mashed potatoes.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood 3 Comments

Photos of Recent Holiday Food ( With Links to Recipes)

January 8, 2020 by Polly Castor
Photos of Holiday food with links to recipes

Try out these favorite recipes we had over the holidays.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Organic food, Recipes, soup Leave a comment

Recent Food Around Here (Photos and Recipe Links)

June 24, 2019 by Polly Castor
Recent food around Here

I’ve been too busy lately for recipe creation, but we’ve been eating these yummy standbys lately that you might want to make yourself!

Categories Food, Ideas Tags Main Dish, Organic food, Recipes, Salads, seafood, Side Dish Leave a comment

Broiled Scallops (Recipe)

February 15, 2022May 28, 2019 by Polly Castor
Broiled Scallops recipe

I made these broiled scallops this weekend and they were a revelation.This is very easy, quick, scalable for a crowd, all done at the same time, and hard to do wrong, and not a mess or a danger for anyone. And just as delicious!

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood Leave a comment

Colorful Vegan Chickpea Salad (Recipe)

April 24, 2019 by Polly Castor
Colorful chickpea vegan salad recipe

The salad is cheerful and delicious. It is perfect to make for a change of pace or for your vegan friends who will be delighted with it.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, Salads, Vegan, vegetarian 2 Comments

Recent Food Around Here (Photos)

April 13, 2019 by Polly Castor
polly castor's food

Here are some of the recipes shown in the photos below that are on this blog…

Categories Food, Photography Tags Main Dish, Recipes, Salads Leave a comment

Artichoke, Zucchini, and Caramelized Onion Frittata (Recipe)

March 28, 2019 by Polly Castor
Artichoke, Zucchini, and Caramelized Onion Frittata Recipe

This frittata is absolutely delicious. Give it a try! You’ll be so glad you did. It will become a favorite.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, vegetarian 3 Comments
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Reviews from Readers

Polly….I’m happier because of you; I sure do thank you.

Wow!! I cannot wait to try this recipe! Thank you!

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

The Spirit at work is so well described here. In between the lines I read that
our only true peace is in pleasing Our Creator! Thank you deeply, Polly!

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

Well said Polly!

Life is so exciting we should limit ourselves less!

Let’s all have a productive day and be joyful!

Thank you for introducing me to wonderful, amazing authors.
Love the pictures of your elegant flowers.

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

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

Synesthesia! I can taste the yellows and hear the oranges! A feast to the senses! Brava talented Polly

I just love your photos, Polly. Whether it’s food or art or nature . . . They are always so beautiful and interesting and full of life !

We are so blessed with your access to nature and your talent to communicate visually….

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

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

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 love your swirling universes, the spirals that draw one in and introduce us to ourselves.

I have been blessed beyond words by your daily posts. I often quote you to others, saying I got the idea from a wonderful friend I’ve never actually met.

Thank you for Saying So Well What Needs To Be SAID!

Hoping others can/will read this…

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.

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

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!

Thank you for bringing to light and sharing an undeniably important part of the one stupendous whole we all share…the countless ways beyond sight, and not to be missed, always at hand.

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

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

I appreciate your blog. It’s a breath of fresh air, beauty, and innovative thinking!

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

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

A wonderful poem Polly! Thank you. Deeply nourishing…. like a bird, natural and beautiful, just singing out truth in her special song on a fine winter morning.

Thank you very much, Polly. You are a bright light!

It’s a rare inspiration that can uncover an aching joy — but those poems do that. Thanks for sharing this with us.

This is such a beautiful and loving blog and feels much like your amazing dynamic spiritual art. You are proving and sharing truth in a precious, creative, encouraging, and heartfelt way. You inspire me!

Polly, you have such a great feel for things. I will enjoy you forever.

Amazing, Polly! A wonderful example of seeing the possibilities…creativity at its best.

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

Outstanding message! And a sure “wake-up” call for me regarding mortal decline. I’m off on a refreshing direction. Thanks, Polly.

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

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

What a delight to experience the beauty of nature you shared of your slice of the world through these beautiful photos.

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

I’ve just finished this book and I loved it! Thanks for recommending it.

This is absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

Without a doubt my life has been enriched and uplifted by my acquaintance with you through your blogs. Every day I look for the interesting ideas you amplify and the lovely arts you share with us. I am never disappointed.

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

I am touched by this well thought out, well written essay. You have put into words what so many of us have in our minds and hearts. Thank you!

Neat! Love the black and white contrasts enhanced by the light.

I am grateful for the myriad ways you celebrate Life in your art, activities and relationships. Your blog is inspiring in its magnification of Soulful goodness!

Thank you for focusing in on and capturing the little things we so often pass by and/or take for granted.

Thanks for the nudge!

You continue to inspire, impress, and
amaze me, Polly.

I am one of your readers who definitely looks forward to a positive message from you every morning. You grow people.

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

Polly, what amazing and timely insight in these wise words! Thanks for sharing this wisdom.

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

Polly, thanks for “amplifying good”. That’s what you really do!

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

Polly, I needed you today and there you were and it was enough. Thank you for being a motivator.

Wish I had gotten this message 75 years ago. It makes so much sense and would have saved me a lot of self criticism. I love your blog.

Polly, I love your poem “you were never unwanted”. This poem really hit home. Thank you for your words of wisdom

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

I LOVE YOU!!

You amuse-inspire-edify-entertain-inform-uplift-enhance-educate-color!-…my days!

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

I am so grateful for your generous sharing of ideas across so many different fields! Your colorful art, your beautiful photography, your tasty looking and well presented dishes, your uplifting ideas, your insightful book reviews, and your wonderful healing work! You truly are a polymath!! I so look forward to your daily offerings and rejoice in them all.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

You share so freely, with so so so much love and joy and an open-open-heart…

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!

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…

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

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

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…

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

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 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!

That definitely sounds like a book I’d like to read! Thanks Polly!

So beautiful, Polly. Thank you for spelling out – through such artful means – the beauty of patience.

These thoughts you shared are a keeper for me to revisit when in need. You are a blessing to many!

Thank you for sharing this quote. It is very appropriate for our times. A beautiful wake up call to change our thinking and focus on what is real and true.

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

With its awesome art, recipes, book reviews, and really excellent writing, this blog is the perfect corner of the internet.

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

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

Your zest for the good things in life makes me feel happy too!

Thank you Polly, for saying what needs to be said.

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

Your photos have opened my eyes to the beauty surrounding us everywhere.

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

I think you have covered absolutely every way anyone would wish to be blessed

This blog is so prolific and original, inspiring and joy producing.

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

Your multiple images and vocabulary choices give energy and renewed resolve to flagging spirits. Thank you for sharing.

I think one reason I enjoy your blog is that you Stand Forth In All Your God-given Glory, expressing everything Good!

This is one of the BEST explanations of one’s understanding of God I have seen in a long time. The image paired with the text was spot on!

Thank you for bringing your beautiful great outdoors into my world.
You do a great job taking pictures. The colors are so vibrant and I like that you notice
shadows.

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

Thank you for the insight. Especially separating church from a building or denomination. The passion and joy of color in your paintings is marvelous.

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

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

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

I love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited joy.

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

I read and feel the security of the hearth and home. Many thanks…

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

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!

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

I never before found computers this beautiful….

I find the ideas you share on your blog very encouraging in having a sense of order when it comes to goals and priorities.

I can’t tell you how helpful this has been to me today. I must’ve read it half a dozen times or more. It’s helping me with a great challenge. Thank you!

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

Oh my gosh how did you know I needed this today? I am in absolute awe of your thorough and articulate way you describe how all of this works.

Really enjoyed your poem on Animal magnetism. Very clear truths. Thank you. Your vibrant art work is superb.

Illuminating thoughts, thank you for sharing them. Very clear.

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

When you get famous, I need to be the president of your fan club.

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

The last day of the month on your blog is always a BIG treat . . . This morning I went from fasting to feasting . . .

Thank you for writing this opinion so eloquently, Polly. You have addressed many nuances that I have been espousing for years, and your words are powerful and thought-provoking.

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

Oh how I love this! Thank you, thank you!

This is spectacular, Polly! I love it!

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

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

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!

So beautiful and I have shared it with so many others. Thank you!

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

Thank you! I enjoy reading your notes from the Bible Lesson. Your interpretation is helpful for my thought and I’m sure many others.

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

Providing us with wonderful refreshment, enlightenment, peace, encouragement, joy,
and a whole lot more. Thanks, Polly!

Once again, you have come through for us with such clear and coherent thinking and put into words the feelings in our hearts.

Oh my goodness Polly, this is absolutely magnificent and reaches so far deep into my soul.

I love this poem, Polly, and I shall read it often! I feel sure it will help lift my thought to healing.

I really enjoy reading your blog – but I have to say that your monthly ‘Bits and Clips’ posts and your ‘Grace Notes’ posts are my favorite :)

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.

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

Well done Polly, I love your book reviews! Please carry on the good work of guiding our book choices.

Thank you for your efforts. I look forward to your positive thoughts and love.

This is so well thought out and written. Thank you for this compelling essay. I agree with you on all points, Polly.

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

Thank you for expanding my ways to see, Polly.

Beautiful photos! All that color, texture & gorgeous pattern….

I love your blog! I shared it with my mom, an artist, and she is impressed with your art. I’ve also spent time studying your paintings. Just listened to your interview, it was stellar! Thank you!!

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

You are such an inspirational person Polly! I love everything you share with us – such a joy to have your daily input in my inbox! X x x

Love the poem so so much and the first painting with the trees is INCREDIBLE!!

I love this poem! Letting our true, authentic self come forth! Yes!! Thank you for all the delightful imagery!

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

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! ❤️

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

Thank you for your generosity and your overflowing sense of soul which you share so beautifully and articulately with everyone!!

I’m new to your site and I love today’s post about being grateful!

What a breath of fresh air!! Thank you for your honesty, integrity and willingness to speak out for Truth and Justice!!!

I’m so grateful for all you share with us.

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

Yummy and beautiful! I love all the colors and this food looks amazing! The plates too!

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

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

Thank you for revealing this idea you’ve been following. I can tell when an angel has tapped me on the shoulder–it feels light and right and fun.

Polly your blog is simply a marvelously enriching, thought provoking part of the daily wonders of life! I give thanks for you and the blog!

I must find the higher spiritual path that nature often helps me see. Thank you for this beautiful poem.

Polly lets her spirituality into her art as you can see in the many abstract paintings she creates. We were wowed by her ability and her encouragement of others to express themselves artistically.

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!

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

Wow! What a stunning collection of gorgeous images and though-provoking quotes. They made my day.

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!

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

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.

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

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!

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 food is presented in such an artistic way that it looks beautiful, wholesome and totally delicious!!

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

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

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.

Thank you for this exercise in balance, Polly. Helps a lot!

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 this….I absolutely love reading it!

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

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 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 love the photos – such a gift which makes me feel closer to Fall, my favorite season.

Thankful every morning to see another treasure from you in my emails !

A wonderful poem Polly! Thank you. Deeply nourishing….

What a stunning place! It is just a slice of heaven. Thank you for sharing its beauty.

You brighten my life with your thoughts, views, words, pictures….

I enjoy your blog so much. But today you are on top. Every thought you expressed so lovingly…. some very funny but always with love. Thank you for all you bring to so many .

Thank you for your efforts. I look forward to your positive thoughts and love.

I LOVE THIS BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh so beautiful! I keep coming back to look at the paintings again.

All of your work is eye and mind popping. I love it!

How blessed we are to have someone like you on this Earth.

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

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

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

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

Deep and encompassing. Passionate and motherly. Loving and expansive. The photos speak volumes too…and I see the connections with the poem perfectly.

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.

Polly! I love this poem! Letting our true, authentic self come forth! Yes!! Thank you for all the delightful imagery!

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

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

Thank you so much for this thoughtful, informative and articulate book review, Polly!

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

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

Thank you for sharing this.
Strange, nothing surprising here.
You are who you are.

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

Thank you for this. Read it. Gave me hope. Going through an “unsure” time. Thank you for these words of strength, hope, and faith.

This blog is colorful, beautiful, and edifying.

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

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

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

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

Love the photos, as usual. You are a Creative Genius, Polly.

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

Helen Frankenthaler’s works were interesting, but I like your abstracts better.

That’s all very helpful for me today, Polly. Thanks for going deep on this. I’m sharing your joy in our Source.

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

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

Excellent. Thank you for sharing this welcome thought to redirect today’s thinking.
I am grateful for this blog.

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

I’m so grateful to be able to enjoy all you so generously share on your blog, the colorful photos, the recipes, the art works, the insights, the book reviews and so much more!

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 !

Wow. Yes, quite something to contemplate. Thank you, Polly!!

This poem is what I needed to further focus on moving out of the fear of COVID.❤️

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.

Gorgeous new work. I love the vitality of the city scenes and vibrant color palette.

Thank you so.much, Polly. It says with abundant clarity what thousands upon thousands of thoughtful men and women think and believe. I appreciate you!!

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

What lovely Soul-inspired insights! Thank you for these great ideas!

Absolutely beautiful!!! I love these particular colors together and the different styles and techniques really give it a lot of depth and texture. Brilliant!!!!

This is relevant and an excellent way for me to look at some situations I have been in recently.
Thank you Polly.
I will continue to benefit…

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Really beautiful, very hope filled. I love this!

These are awesome. You have such a gift for photography…and for pastels…and for cooking…and for finding interesting books…and, and, and. Where does it end?

This blog is a daily dose from an spiritually-oriented, artist, thinker, sage.

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

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

You are so incredibly sweet, gracious, kind, thoughtful, creative, generous, joyful, witty, courageous, tender, persistent, compassionate, brilliant, articulate, ad infinitum!

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

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

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

Yes indeed! You are a shining light and you are definitely using all your wonderful talents

I really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

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

Today’s post was a Gift from God. Opening your email this morning truly lifted my Spirit. Thank you.

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

Perspective is everything – and choosing a liberating one blesses everyone, as you point out!

Thank you for your commitment to reality and our true nature!

I love your Blog, Polly!! Therefore, I love you! Your art, your poetry, your philosophy, your religion, your book reviews, your photography, your … husband!

I love your website, messages, poems and art. Thank you for the blessing of community that you provide.

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

Graciously and lovingly spoken, like a true friend to all. Thank you for your blog Polly.

You capture so vividly the beauty of nature. Thank you for bringing such beauty into my every day.

Polly, please keep sharing these pages! I love seeing them. You inspired me to do the same thing.

Thanks so much for this recommendation Polly. We watched in awe … and have recommended in turn.

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

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

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

Wow! Love the abundance of exotic shapes and colours in the Autumn sunshine!

Beautiful and profoundly perfect for pandemic season, your poem empowers hope for what’s next. I plan to read it at Sunday Devotional. Thank you!

Thank you, Polly, for bringing clarity to the stressful events we’re experiencing. Your insights are thought-provoking and inspirational. I’m very thankful for your blog.

How blessed we are to have someone like you on this Earth.

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!

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

Just a wonderland of possibilities and ideas and the materials to explore and discover. What a beautiful, exciting place! I’ve taken all this glory into my heart today and am grateful for it.

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

I appreciate the joy, inspiration, and great information you provide us in your blogs.

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

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

I just had to comment on today’s blog. I LOVED it! I have had similar thoughts for some time.

Thank you Polly for sharing those wise words! I heartily agree with them all now I have a bigger perspective on life.

Thank you for sharing the joy of your trip with us. I feel blessed this morning to know you in all the ways you reveal good and magnify it.

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!!

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

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

The colors are exquisite!!! Thanks for bringing so much beauty into our lives.

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.

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

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

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

Polly always captures the balance between what I can do, and all the miracles I am given.

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

Your blog has inspired me to get back into painting, cooking, prayer and meditation.

I loved this book, Polly. Thank you so much for the recommendation.

Your poem feels like a lesson, a treatment, and a love letter all rolled into one perfect package.
Thank you, Polly.

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

This couldn’t possibly be more perfect, – so reassuring, and so fully expresses in every way what we all are praying for. Thank you for your a beautiful heart and generous giving of it!!

Thanks, Polly! Your zest for the good things in life makes me feel happy too!

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

Thank you for all your uplifting daily contributions, wherever form they take – photos, recipes, artwork, book reviews and smiley faces!

Well Done! This is such a wonderful venture. Your work is just extraordinary!

Polly, I’m grateful for you, your prayerful work, your blog, your art, photos, words and colors.

Love your pastels!

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