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Release

Playful Experimentation (Quote by Lewis Noble)

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 by Polly Castor
Playful Experimentation, quote by Lewis Nobel

It’s a life long exploration.

Categories Art Tags advice, authenticity, creativity, Release Leave a comment

Get Through (New Poem by Polly Castor)

February 2, 2025February 2, 2025 by Polly Castor
Getting Through poem by Polly Castor

Simply and routinely give up and being perfect.

Categories Poetry Tags life lessons, Poetry by me, Release 3 Comments

Acceptance (Poem by Kerry Hardie)

February 1, 2025 by Polly Castor
Acceptance (Poem by Kerry Hardie)

I don’t know how else to explain the calm of this grey wetness with hardly a glimmer of light or life, only my car tyres swishing the lying water…

Categories Poetry Tags poetry by others, Release Leave a comment

Thoughts about Truth (A Few Short Quotes by Mary Baker Eddy)

January 26, 2025January 26, 2025 by Polly Castor

I think this is what we need right now.

Categories Spirituality Tags Christian, Mary Baker Eddy, Release, trust, Virtue 2 Comments

I’m a Vehicle (New Poem by Polly Castor)

January 24, 2025 by Polly Castor
I'm a vehicle (poem by Polly Castor)

I feel like a vehicle waiting in the driveway sure that I’ll eventually be driven somewhere.

Categories Poetry Tags authenticity, metaphor, patience, Poetry by me, Release, spirituality & art, trust 2 Comments

My Heart Goes Out to LA

January 20, 2025 by Polly Castor
My Heart is with LA

I want you to know– especially you southern Californians that are experiencing the devastation of the recent fires– that I’ve been praying for you.

Categories Hope Tags Prayer, reformation, Release 2 Comments

Unresolution (Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)

January 3, 2025January 3, 2025 by Polly Castor
Unresolution poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Unresolution Because after all these years of focusing on the goal as if happiness is a thing I attain or a place I might finally reach, now I thrill when I see through the myth of arrivals. I see where I have grasped and clutched and clawed and scrabbled to be somewhere not where I … Read more

Categories Poetry Tags poetry by others, Release 1 Comment

Things that Make us Grin and Bow (Quote by Brian Doyle)

December 18, 2024 by Polly Castor
Things that make us grin and bow, quote by Brian Doyle

In short I believe in believing, which doesn’t make sense, which gives me hope.

Categories Hope Tags Mindfulness, Quotes, Release 1 Comment

For an Audience of One and Desire for Validation

December 15, 2024December 15, 2024 by Polly Castor
For an Audience of One and Desire for Validation

focus on what is intrinsically yours to do without fretting about how others will respond to your authenticity, and to stay humble as a faithful servant of supreme good.

Categories Spirituality Tags advice, authenticity, life lessons, Relationship with God, Release, Spiritual Healing 1 Comment

I’m an Optimist (Nelson Mandela Quote)

November 18, 2024November 18, 2024 by Polly Castor
Optimist quote by Nelson Mandela

Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.

Categories Hope Tags Quotes, Release 3 Comments

Choose Your Attitude and Magnify Good in Your Own Sphere of Influence

November 6, 2024November 6, 2024 by Polly Castor
focus on your own sphere of influence

You vote every moment with your attitude, and with your dollar, with your love and generosity, your integrity, and how you consecrate your time.

Categories Ideas Tags life lessons, Mindfulness, Release, Special Occasions, Spiritual Healing 18 Comments

Follow the Shining Ones (Sayings in Verse by the Buddha)

October 20, 2024October 20, 2024 by Polly Castor
Follow the Shining ones, Buddha

Follow them as the moon follows the path of the stars.

Categories Ideas Tags life lessons, Mindfulness, Release 1 Comment

My Loyalty is to the Inner Vision (quote by Mary Oliver with comment by me)

September 8, 2024 by Polly Castor
Your loyalty is to the inner vision, Mary Oliver quote

Does focus on one’s inner vision compromise one’s outward life?

Categories Art, Ideas Tags creativity, happiness, Mindfulness, peace, Quotes, Release Leave a comment

What is a Friend? (Quote by C. Raymond Beran)

August 20, 2024August 20, 2024 by Polly Castor
What is a friend? quote

A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself.”

Categories Ideas Tags gratitude, happiness, life lessons, Release, Virtue 3 Comments

A Dark Thing Inside the Day ( Poem by Linda Gregg)

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024 by Polly Castor
A Dark Thing Inside the Day, poem by Linda Gregg

Everything desirable is here already in abundance.

Categories Poetry Tags Flowers, Mindfulness, poetry by others, Release 1 Comment

Give it Up! (New Poem by Polly Castor)

August 12, 2024August 10, 2024 by Polly Castor
Give it up!, poem about quitting sugar, by Polly Castor

Surrender your addiction to sugar.

Categories Food, Spirituality Tags food politics, life lessons, Mindfulness, Poetry by me, Release, Virtue Leave a comment

Stillness is Un-Conflicted (Quote by Erich Schiffmann)

August 7, 2024August 7, 2024 by Polly Castor
Stillness is un-conflicted

Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic.

Categories Ideas Tags life lessons, Mindfulness, peace, Release, Virtue Leave a comment
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Reviews from Readers

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

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

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

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 inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

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

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

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

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

I never before found computers this beautiful….

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.

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

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…

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

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 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!

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

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

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

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

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

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

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

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

This blog is colorful, beautiful, and edifying.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for expanding my ways to see, Polly.

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

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 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!

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

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

Well said Polly!

Life is so exciting we should limit ourselves less!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

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?

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

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!!

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

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!

This is spectacular, Polly! I love it!

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.

I LOVE YOU!!

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

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

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

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

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

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

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

I love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited joy.

This is absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

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!!

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

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.

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

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

I really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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 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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 blog is very interesting and insightful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love your pastels!

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

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

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

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

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

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 commitment to reality and our true nature!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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 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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

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

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

Hoping others can/will read this…

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

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!

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks for the nudge!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

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

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

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

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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 !

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 :)

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!

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

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

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.

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