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Recipes

Swordfish Marinade (Recipe)

April 18, 2026 by Polly Castor
Swordfish Marinade recipe

This is delicious, and quick and easy to do with pantry ingredients. This makes two servings but can be multiplied for more.

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Sourdough Everything Crackers (Recipe)

March 30, 2026 by Polly Castor
Sourdough Everything Crackers Recipe

These are amazingly good, and have eclipsed anything I’d ever want to buy at the store. They are cheesy and full bodied in flavor, easy to make and downright fabulous.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, Side Dish 4 Comments

Easy Homemade Caesar Dressing (Recipe)

March 27, 2026 by Polly Castor
Easy Caesar Dressing recipe

Sometimes you want a Caesar dressing that doesn’t have an egg or anchovies in it, even though I love it that way. This dressing is really easy and relies pretty heavily on good parmesan.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, Salads 1 Comment

Recent Food Around Here (Photos with Recipe Links)

March 18, 2026 by Polly Castor
Recent Food Around Here (Photos with Recipe Links)

There are some oft-repeated tried and true recipes here as well as a bunch of recipe-testing on new stuff that is not yet what we call “blog worthy.”

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Zucchini Noodles with Tomato Cream Sauce (Recipe)

March 13, 2026March 13, 2026 by Polly Castor
Zucchini Noodles with tomato cream sauce recipe

This is a quick and versatile recipe, which is a good, light base for any protein, or a welcome side dish.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, Side Dish 1 Comment

Halibut with Saffron Tomatoes and Fennel (Recipe)

March 6, 2026March 6, 2026 by Polly Castor
Halibut with Saffron Tomatoes and Fennel Recipe

This is quick and easy and good enough for company.

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Hot Buttered Shrimp (Recipe)

February 27, 2026February 27, 2026 by Polly Castor
Hot Buttered Shrimp recipe

This recipe is very quick, couldn’t be easier, and is both delicious and nutritious! I serve it three different ways, because you’ll want this repeatedly in your rotation,

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood 1 Comment

Whole Red Onion and Carrot Soup (Recipe)

February 21, 2026February 21, 2026 by Polly Castor
Whole Red Onion and Carrot Soup (Recipe)

This is inexpensive, low calorie (41 calories a bowl), healthy, and surprisingly good. I was skeptical, but now I’m a believer, and for a bonus, the soup only get better as leftovers. It takes a little time simmering, but is not difficult to do.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, Side Dishes, soups, Vegan, vegetarian 1 Comment

Kale, Tuna, White Bean, and Pecan Salad (Recipe)

February 6, 2026 by Polly Castor

This is yummy and quick and easy to make. It keeps well in the refrigerator as leftovers to use as a quick side dish, but is hearty enough for a main dish.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, Salads, Side Dish 1 Comment

Lentil Soup with Rosemary, Butternut Squash, and Chard (Recipe)

January 28, 2026 by Polly Castor
Lentil Soup with Rosemary, Butternut Squash, and Chard (Recipe)

This soup has all the sustaining coziness of winter in a bowl.

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Clementine Cake (Naturally Gluten Free Recipe)

January 24, 2026January 23, 2026 by Polly Castor
Clementine Cake (Naturally Gluten Free Recipe)

This recipe was a hit – so moist, simple, and flavorful…

Categories Food Tags Desserts, Recipes 1 Comment

Flaky Biscuits (Recipe)

January 24, 2026January 22, 2026 by Polly Castor
Flaky Biscuit Recipe

This is your purely perfect, simple, no-skill required, straight-forward, always welcome, everyday but company worthy biscuit, especially delightful when eaten with our easy homemade jam…

Categories Food Tags Recipes, Side Dish 2 Comments

Gochujang Tomato Soup (Recipe)

January 12, 2026January 12, 2026 by Polly Castor
Gochujang Tomato Soup Recipe

This is a deliciously fresh take on tomato soup! Plus it is easy to make and made with canned (or jarred) tomatoes!

Categories Food Tags Recipes, soups, Vegan, vegetarian, Whole30 Leave a comment

Brownie Edge Chocolate Cookies (Recipe)

January 6, 2026 by Polly Castor
Brownie Edge Chocolate Cookie Recipe

Who doesn’t love the edge of the brownie best? And this is the easiest one bowl and drop cookie recipe imaginable.

Categories Food Tags Desserts, Recipes 1 Comment

Family Holiday Photos 2025 (with Recipe Links)

January 4, 2026 by Polly Castor
Family Holiday Photos

We had a nice holiday with both daughters home, as well as our older daughter’s boyfriend.

Categories Food, Photography Tags Family, Holidays, Recipes, special occastions 3 Comments

Crispy Black Bean Tacos (Recipe)

December 18, 2025 by Polly Castor
Crispy Black Bean Taco Recipe

These are delicious and easy to make. It makes tacos enough for four people, and since we are only two over here, I make a full recipe of beans but only assemble and bake half of them. I refrigerate the rest of the beans and assemble the half later in the week.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, vegetarian 3 Comments

Roasted Boursin Mashed Potatoes (Recipe)

December 10, 2025 by Polly Castor
Roasted Boursin Mashed Potatoes Recipe

I happen to love regular mashed potatoes, but if you want to jazz it up for company or the holidays, this super easy dish is for you.

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Reviews from Readers

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

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

Hoping others can/will read this…

I really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Love your pastels!

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

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

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

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!!

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

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

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

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

This is absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

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!

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

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.

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

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

Really beautiful, very hope filled. I love this!

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!

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.

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

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!

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

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

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

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!

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Thank you for expanding my ways to see, Polly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited joy.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is spectacular, Polly! I love it!

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

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

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!

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

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

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

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

Thanks for the nudge!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 !

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…

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!

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

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

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

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

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This blog is colorful, beautiful, and edifying.

I never before found computers this beautiful….

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

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

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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 !

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

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

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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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! ❤️

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

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

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

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

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

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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

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

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

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

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

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

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

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I LOVE YOU!!

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

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

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

Thank you for this….I absolutely love reading it!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

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

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

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

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

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!!

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!

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

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

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

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

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