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Homemade Salmon Burgers (Recipe)

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 by Polly Castor
Homemade Salmon Burger Recipe

They are hearty and easy to make, and then a breeze for later meals, just letting them sizzle and then be done.

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Zucchini Noodles with Clam Sauce (Recipe)

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 by Polly Castor
Zucchini Noodles with Clam Sauce (recipe)

This is so easy and delicious. Don’t be put off if you have never cooked clams before. This comes together quickly and effortlessly and packs a great protein punch while still feeling light.

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

Langostino Pad Thai with Spaghetti Squash (Recipe)

December 21, 2018 by Polly Castor
Langostino Pad Thai with Spaghetti Squash (Recipe)

This is delicious enough for special, and easy enough for a weekday.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood, Whole30 2 Comments

Our Favorite Rub for Tuna Steaks (Recipe)

May 6, 2019November 9, 2018 by Polly Castor
Our Favorite Rub for Tuna Steaks (Recipe)

Since guests repeatedly ask for this recipe (which by the way I created completely on my own) here it is.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood 7 Comments

Recent Food Around Here

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 by Polly Castor
Recent Food Around Here

In this post you can see a bit of what we’ve been eating this summer.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Organic food, seafood 1 Comment

Zucchini Noodle Tuna Casserole (Recipe)

June 1, 2018May 31, 2018 by Polly Castor
Zucchini Noodle Tuna Casserole (Recipe)

This recipe is next in a series of me trying to update tuna fish in my life.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood 3 Comments

Shrimp and Eggplant Curry Recipe

May 22, 2018 by Polly Castor
Shrimp and Eggplant Curry Recipe

This is delicious and perfect for the rainy days we’ve been having, even though it doesn’t feel very spring-like.

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Endive Tuna Boats with Avocado Pesto (Recipe)

May 14, 2018May 8, 2018 by Polly Castor
Endive Tuna Boats with Avocado Pesto (Recipe)

This meal is quick, easy, delicious, nourishing, casual, and refreshing.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood, Whole30 1 Comment

Green Curry with Salmon and Vegetables

April 2, 2018 by Polly Castor
Green Curry with Salmon and Vegetables

This is delicious and cooks so fast that you need everything ready before you start.

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Spiralized Celeraic with Langostino, Tomatoes, Olives & Herbs (Recipe)

March 13, 2018 by Polly Castor
Spiralized Celeraic with Langostino, Tomatoes, Olives & Herbs (Recipe)

This celery root noodle dish is so delicious! It comes together very fast, as do most veggie noodle recipes, which is one aspect about them I love as well.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, seafood, Whole30 1 Comment

Shrimp Avocado Lettuce Wraps (Recipe)

January 17, 2018 by Polly Castor
Shrimp Avocado Lettuce Wraps (Recipe)

These are like grain-free shrimp tacos, but with totally different seasonings. They are flavorful and mild.

Categories Food Tags recipe, seafood, Whole30 7 Comments

Tomatillo Soup with Spinach and Tilapia

January 12, 2018January 12, 2018 by Polly Castor
Tomatillo Soup with Spinach and Tilapia

So this is an example of how I diverge from a recipe, even one of my own. The outcome is flavorful comfort food at its best.

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Curried Sweet Potato & Carrot Soup Recipe

December 6, 2017 by Polly Castor
Curried Sweet Potato and Carrot Soup Recipe

A good slow cooker recipe is always welcome, but especially this time of year. You can eat it as is, simply totally pureed, or like us, add protein after it is all smooth for a little text

Categories Food Tags Recipes, seafood, soup, Vegan, vegetarian 2 Comments

Muhammara Recipe

October 25, 2017 by Polly Castor
Muhammara Recipe

Mahammara is a traditional middle eastern red pepper and walnut appetizer, usually served with warm bread, pita, or crackers. I’ve changed up a bit.

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Collard Wraps

July 19, 2017 by Polly Castor
Collard Wraps

These collard wraps are surprisingly good bread-free sandwiches.

Categories Food, Ideas Tags Recipes, seafood 1 Comment

Spiced Coconut Shrimp with Spinach (Recipe)

April 9, 2019June 15, 2017 by Polly Castor
Spiced Coconut Shrimp with Spinach (Recipe)

This is quick, easy, and delicious. It comes together in minutes and is good enough for company. The spice mixture is flavorful but not hot.

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood 2 Comments

Vegan Alfredo Recipe (Cashew Sauce with Spaghetti Squash, Broccoli, and Shrimp)

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 by Polly Castor
Vegan Alfredo Recipe (with Spaghetti Squash, Broccoli, and Shrimp)

This vegan alfredo sauce will have converts on all sides of the fence. Dairy free and using only healthy fats, this is a completely guilt-free indulgence. Give it a try!

Categories Food Tags Main Dish, Recipes, seafood, Vegan, vegetarian 1 Comment
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Reviews from Readers

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!

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

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

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

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

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

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

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

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

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

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

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Your blogs are a delight.

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

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 eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Really beautiful, very hope filled. I love this!

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 this exercise in balance, Polly. Helps a lot!

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

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

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 expanding my ways to see, Polly.

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

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

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

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

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

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

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

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!

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.

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

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

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.

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

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

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

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

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

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

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

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

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

Hoping others can/will read this…

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 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.

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!

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!

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

This blog is colorful, beautiful, and edifying.

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

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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

This is absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Love these colours and the strong contrasts 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 !

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!!

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.

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!!

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

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Love your pastels!

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

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 love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited 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.

I never before found computers this beautiful….

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

Well said Polly!

Life is so exciting we should limit ourselves less!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

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 really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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!

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Thanks for the nudge!

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

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

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 !

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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 LOVE YOU!!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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, 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.

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

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

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

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

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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! ❤️

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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