Special Occasions
Our Youngest Turns 28 (New Poem with Photos)
May you have a special day today and may your whole next trip around the sun be an unfoldment of all sorts of joy…
My Birthday 2025
While I don’t count years, I certainly do count blessings and every trip around the sun is filled with countless ones of them, and each one of you is included in that.
Grace Notes #57 (with Photos)
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good.
Christmas 2024 (Photos)
We had a low key holiday, so much so, that the above candle sufficed as our tree. Christmas Eve dinner we had at my sister-in-law’s (you can see our daughter with their daughter below). Then on Christmas, we opened presents in the late morning with our California daughter on zoom. The gifts I received were … Read more
Maimonides’ Eight Levels of Charity (Happy Thanksgiving!)
On Thanksgiving, I usually wax on about gratitude and thankfulness, which I feel so much and so often, but this year I’m inspired to emphasize the giving part of the word Thanksgiving.
Polly Castor Art 2025 Calendars Available (Order Soon!)
They make great gifts, and are good quality…
Post Election Bits and Clips 2024
It’s time to stop being bewildered, and start rolling up our sleeves. It’s not over until Love wins.
Choose Your Attitude and Magnify Good in 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.
Filling in the Bubble on the Ballot (Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
I imagine the small oval a pupil widening in the dark…
Happy Pumpkin Day (New Poem by Polly Castor)
I don’t enjoy scary movies nor would I ever put a giant skeleton on my lawn. I wonder why people do.
Freedom From (New Poem by Polly Castor)
This Fourth of July I want freedom from hubris and inadequacy…
Helping Our Daughter Move to Upstate NY
We are all so very delighted by this new opportunity and this improvement in her local environment.
Annual Meeting Weekend 2024
I am so grateful for this church and its mission to bless all mankind with the embrace of Truth, Life, and Love!