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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.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, seafood, Vegan, vegetarian Leave a comment

How to Roast Bell Peppers in the Oven

October 24, 2017 by Polly Castor
How to Roast Peppers in the Oven

Roasting the bell peppers not only makes them more delicious, but also easier and smaller to store.

Categories Food Tags Organic food, Recipes, Vegan, vegetarian 2 Comments

How to Roast Beets (with Photos of Our Bumper Crop)

September 26, 2017September 26, 2017 by Polly Castor
How to Roast Beets (with Photos of Our Bumper Crop)

Try using roasted beets this season! What a welcome thing for us to have in abundance over here!

Categories Food Tags Organic food, Recipes, Side Dishes, Vegan, vegetarian 8 Comments

Simply Delicious Beet Greens (Recipe)

October 10, 2017September 13, 2017 by Polly Castor
Simply Delicious Beet Green Recipe

Now is a perfect time to eat the succulently delicious beet greens, which are such a treat. They my favorite cooked green– soft and sweet.

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Roasted Tomato Sauce Method

September 5, 2017September 5, 2017 by Polly Castor
Roasted Tomato Sauce Method

We put only tomatoes in this: no oil, no spices or salt, etc, so we can use it in the widest array of applications, seasoning it (or not) later. This stuff can really hold its own and carry the day.

Categories Food Tags Organic food, Recipes, Vegan, vegetarian 5 Comments

Vegan and Gluten-Free Breakfast Cookies

May 18, 2021August 5, 2017 by Polly Castor
Vegan and Gluten-Free Breakfast Cookies

I’ve served these to my vegan and gluten–free friends and what I find is I prefer them even though I am neither!

Categories Food Tags Desserts, Recipes, Vegan, vegetarian 3 Comments

Vegetarian Sandwich Ideas

July 14, 2017 by Polly Castor
Vegetarian Sandwich Ideas

Mix and match your vegetables, fruits, flavors, herbs, sauces, nut butters, and condiments for great vegetarian sandwiches. Be adventurous and have some fun.

Categories Food Tags Vegan, vegetarian 2 Comments

Green Harissa Recipe

July 5, 2017July 5, 2017 by Polly Castor

This is great stuff to add to all sorts of things. Try it in a wrap or on eggs. Put it as a sauce on top of protein. Stir it in a casserole or mix into veggies while they roast.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, Vegan, vegetarian 3 Comments

Fabulous Watermelon Cooler

July 5, 2017July 3, 2017 by Polly Castor
Fabulous Watermelon Cooler

This is incredibly good. Be sure to give this one a try!

Categories Food Tags Recipes, Vegan, vegetarian 1 Comment

Asian Sesame Sauce for Spiralized Carrots

October 10, 2017June 26, 2017 by Polly Castor
Asian Sesame Sauce for Frozen Spiralized Carrots

These frozen spiralized carrot “noodles” are available at Trader Joes at low cost and this is the perfect sauce to put on them.

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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

Moroccan Lentil and Chickpea Soup (Crockpot Recipe)

May 6, 2017 by Polly Castor
Moroccan Lentil and Chickpea Soup (Crockpot Recipe)

This flavor explosion is delicious, different, quick and easy, as well as nutritious and inexpensive.

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Broccoli with Pralined Pistachios and Tahini Dressing (Recipe)

April 26, 2017April 25, 2017 by Polly Castor
Broccoli with Pralined Pistachios and Tahini Dressing (Recipe)

My husband likes steamed broccoli but I think it needs a little help. This dish we both liked, and you might was well.

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Balsamic Roasted Mushrooms (Recipe)

April 12, 2017 by Polly Castor
Balsamic Roasted Mushrooms (Recipe)

Roasting mushrooms in balsamic lends a depth of flavor that allows them to be the star of the recipe instead of only a backup player. And thankfully here the texture is not rubbery but succulent instead.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, Side Dish, Vegan, vegetarian 1 Comment

Kohlrabi Salad with Beets and Fruit

April 7, 2017 by Polly Castor
Kohlrabi Salad with Beets and Fruit

This light and delicious salad is completely original. I combined grated kohlrabi with roasted beets, apples, and blueberries, and it was an instant favorite over here.

Categories Food Tags Recipes, Salads, Side Dish, Vegan, vegetarian 7 Comments

Recipes for Green Food

March 17, 2017 by Polly Castor
recipes for geen food

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here are some recipes for green food from this blog for you to enjoy today:

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Cauliflower Hash Recipe with Spiced Cashews

February 18, 2017 by Polly Castor

This is both different and delicious, however it is enhanced with some ingredients not in everyone’s pantry: curry leaves and garam marsala, both shown in photos below.

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Reviews from Readers

I never before found computers this beautiful….

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

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

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

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 this….I absolutely love reading 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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!!

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

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

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

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

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

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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!

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

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

Hoping others can/will read this…

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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 absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

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

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

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.

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

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

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

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

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 !

Really beautiful, very hope filled. I love this!

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

Thank you for expanding my ways to see, Polly.

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

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

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

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

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

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.

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

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

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…

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

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

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

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

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

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

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

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

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

I LOVE THIS 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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

I love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited joy.

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.

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

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

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

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

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

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 !

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Love your pastels!

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

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

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

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!

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

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

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

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

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

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

I did your tomato tart a few days ago, and it was fabulous! I am vegetarian and look for meals I can make that have lots of flavor. Your tart was just perfect!

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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!

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

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

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

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

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

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.

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

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

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Well said Polly!

Life is so exciting we should limit ourselves less!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

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

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

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

This is spectacular, Polly! I love it!

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

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

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.

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

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

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

Thanks for the nudge!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

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

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.

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

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

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!

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

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

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.

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

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

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

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

I am so happy to have found your site and to be able to enjoy your expression of Spirit! Love your poetry, your photos, your ideas, your …YOU! THANK you for sharing so abundantly!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

You are such an inspirational person Polly! I love everything you share with us – such a joy to have your daily input in my inbox! X x x

I 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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 .

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

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

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

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

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

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.

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

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!!

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

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

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.

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

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

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…

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

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

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

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

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.

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

This blog is colorful, beautiful, and edifying.

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

You are such a gem Polly- it is an incredible blessing to daily read 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.

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

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

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

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

I LOVE YOU!!

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

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 :)

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

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

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

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