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Sustainability

Just Like Me, Namaste, and the Golden Rule

June 27, 2021June 27, 2021 by Polly Castor

There is a blessed commonality among people that we can support.

Categories Hope, Ideas, Spirituality Tags life lessons, Mindfulness, Quotes, Sustainability 2 Comments

Old Growth (New Landscape/Conceptual Painting in Pastel)

May 28, 2021May 28, 2021 by Polly Castor
Old Growth, pastel by Polly Castor

These redwoods were painted as a metaphor to keep in mind.

Categories Art Tags pastel, representational art, Sustainability, Trees, Virtue 1 Comment

We Are Each Other’s Destiny (Mary Oliver Quote with Photos)

May 12, 2021 by Polly Castor
We are each other's destiny, Mary Oliver quote

Our dignity and our chances are one.

Categories Hope, Ideas Tags life lessons, Quotes, Sustainability 4 Comments

Mill Town (Book Review)

April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 by Polly Castor
Mill Town Book Review

This is an important book about environmental destruction; it is an intense but necessary read.

Categories Books Tags 5 Star Books, Book Reviews, nonfiction, Sustainability Leave a comment

The Wizard and the Prophet (Book Review)

April 10, 2021April 10, 2021 by Polly Castor
The Prophet and the Wizard (Book Review)

This is a remarkable book on the history of environmentalism from two diametrically opposite perspectives.

Categories Books, Hope, Ideas Tags 5 Star Book, Book Reviews, education, Nature, non-fiction, Sustainability 3 Comments

Farmer’s Market Produce and Flowers (Early Fall Photos)

October 24, 2020October 24, 2020 by Polly Castor
Photos of Farmer's Market Produce and Flowers

Our farmer’s market is a regular, fun, Saturday morning event, that I am so very grateful for. Check out why in these photos!

Categories Food, Photography Tags community, Connecticut, Fall, Organic food, Sustainability 3 Comments

September Produce from our Garden, and Flowers in our Yard

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 by Polly Castor

Check out the photos here of September 2020 from our garden. Both the food and the flowers have been wonderful.

Categories Food, Photography Tags Connecticut, Fall, Flowers, Gardening, Organic food, Summer, Sustainability 3 Comments

Farmer’s Market Produce and Flowers (Late Summer 2020)

September 13, 2020September 12, 2020 by Polly Castor
Farmer's Market produce and flowers

Enjoy the vibrance of our farmer’s market scene in these photos, and I recommend frequenting the one nearest you!

Categories Food, Photography Tags Connecticut, Flowers, Organic food, Summer, Sustainability 4 Comments

Farmer’s Market Produce and Flowers (Photos July 2020)

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020 by Polly Castor
Farmer's Market Produce and Flowers July 2020

I can’t encourage you enough to frequent your farmer’s market…

Categories Food, Photography Tags abundance, community, Connecticut, Connecticut CSA, Flowers, Summer, Sustainability 5 Comments

Overstory (Book Review)

October 10, 2019 by Polly Castor
Overstory book review

This is an important, urgent, epic book. The writing is stunning, impressive, poetic, and filled with detailed facts. The story is vastly pertinent, and so very needed to avert our imminent and collective eco-suicide.

Categories Books, Hope, Ideas Tags 5 Star Books, Book Reviews, Sustainability, Trees 8 Comments

Farmer’s Market Photos Part 1 Fall 2019

October 5, 2019 by Polly Castor

Farmer’s markets are this– local, personal, in season, organic, varied, human scale, community building, low carbon, low waste, non-monoculture, delicious, and beautiful. Support them.

Categories Food, Hope, Photography Tags Organic food, Sustainability 1 Comment

Choose Radical Kinship (Deep Think #9)

September 15, 2019 by Polly Castor
choose kinship

The fact that we are inseparable is unavoidable, since one God made –and maintains– us all and we are forever unified in that.

Categories Ideas, Spirituality Tags authenticity, community, Deep Think, Relationship with God, Sustainability 3 Comments

Help Save Utah’s Monuments

November 25, 2018 by Polly Castor
Help protect Utah's Monuments

Please add your voice to mine and many others on this important issue.

Categories Hope Tags abundance, Mindfulness, peace, Sustainability, Virtue 3 Comments

List of Companies Using Genetically Modified Seeds

March 28, 2018 by Polly Castor
List of Companies Using Genetically Modified Foods

You would avoid contaminants and corruption in other ways. Please don’t imbibe them in your body.

Categories Food Tags Connecticut CSA, Organic food, Sustainability 2 Comments

Environmental Data ( Both Bad and Good News)

September 23, 2017September 23, 2017 by Polly Castor
Environmental Data ( Bad and Good News)

Wisdom demands that we take steps to prevent dire conditions. Many steps have already been taken. What can you do?

Categories Hope, Ideas, Movies Tags education, Science, Sustainability Leave a comment

The Invention of Nature (Book Review)

March 27, 2017March 27, 2017 by Polly Castor
invention of nature book review

This biography of Alexander Von Humboldt is brilliantly researched, pragmatically told, and wildly relevant. I give it five stars.

Categories Books Tags 5 Star Books, Book Reviews, non-fiction, Sustainability 5 Comments

Amazing Butternut Squash

November 17, 2016 by Polly Castor

My husband got an amazing butternut squash harvest this year. Some are over 4 feet long…

Categories Food Tags abundance, Gardening, gratitude, Organic food, Sustainability 2 Comments
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Reviews from Readers

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I have tremendous admiration for your strength, your depth, your compassion, your passion and your love. You are a woman deeply filled to the brim…

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!

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!

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

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.

I love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited joy.

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

I really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

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

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

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

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 this exercise in balance, Polly. Helps a lot!

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

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 !

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

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.

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

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

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

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!!

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

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! ❤️

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

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

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.

Love your pastels!

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!

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

Really beautiful, very hope filled. I love this!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

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

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

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

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 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 just adore all of your wonderful posts and everything that you share so generously. ????? You have a beautiful sense of soul that you share – it blesses me and so many!

This blog is colorful, beautiful, and edifying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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!

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

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

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

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.

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

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

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 !

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

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

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

A powerful message. Thank you for getting it out 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!

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

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

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

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

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

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Thanks for the nudge!

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

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!

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

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 :)

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

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

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

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

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

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

I enjoy your strong, bold artwork– there is so much going on in them that my imagination takes off. I really appreciate your blog. It brings joy every day.

I 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!!

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

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

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

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I LOVE YOU!!

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

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

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

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

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

I never before found computers this beautiful….

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

Hoping others can/will read this…

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

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

This is spectacular, Polly! I love it!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

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.

Well said Polly!

Life is so exciting we should limit ourselves less!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

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

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!

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

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

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

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!

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

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

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

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.

Thank you for expanding my ways to see, Polly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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 Polly, for saying what needs to be said.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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