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Virtue

Show Your Soul (Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

February 20, 2021February 20, 2021 by Polly Castor
show your soul Clarissa Pinkola Estes quote

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

Categories Hope, Ideas Tags advice, life lessons, Quotes, Spiritual Healing, Virtue 8 Comments

No Shame in Going Through Grief

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 by Polly Castor
Going Through Grief

In direct proportion to your genuine authenticity, integrity, and patience, you will find functional consolation.

Categories Hope, Ideas, Spirituality Tags authenticity, life lessons, Mindfulness, peace, Release, Spiritual Healing, Virtue 3 Comments

Leadership and Management Advice (from S’zanne Reynolds’ Dad)

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 by Polly Castor
Leadership and Management Advice

Here are some great tips pulled together by an appreciative daughter.

Categories Hope, Ideas Tags advice, life lessons, trust, Virtue 1 Comment

Pastels Cleaned and Replenished

January 24, 2021January 24, 2021 by Polly Castor
I Cleaned my Pastels

This cleaning and order is a great way to start the New Year.

Categories Art, Hope Tags gratitude, happiness, Mindfulness, Pastels, Virtue 2 Comments

The Hill We Climb (Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem)

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 by Polly Castor
Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem

For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it

Categories Poetry Tags poetry by others, Special Occasions, Virtue 3 Comments

Entire Letter from the Birmingham Jail (by Martin Luther King)

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 by Polly Castor
Entire MLK speech from Birmingham Jail

This is long but on this day or remembrance, please read this and consider it’s application to today:

Categories Ideas Tags Quotes, Release, Special Occasions, Virtue 4 Comments

All Creatures Great and Small (Movie Review)

January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 by Polly Castor
All Creatures Great and Small movie review

It is so good to spend some time in simpler, rural days, helping animals to thrive, when morals are clear, where the natural environment is breathtaking, and communities are strong.

Categories Movies Tags 5 Star Movies, movie review, Virtue 4 Comments

How I Use Tracking Apps

January 3, 2021January 2, 2021 by Polly Castor
How I use Habit apps

I use one for daily human habits, and the other for cultivating spiritual ones. Both have been a boon for progress and growth!

Categories Hope, Ideas, Spirituality Tags advice, life lessons, Mindfulness, reformation, Virtue 8 Comments

Polly’s 20 for 2020 (Year End Accountability Summary)

December 30, 2020 by Polly Castor
20 for 2020 accountability Summary

I did pretty well on my 20 resolutions for 2020, especially considering what a different year it was!

Categories Hope Tags abundance, gratitude, Mindfulness, patience, Special Occasions, Virtue 6 Comments

Christmas Thoughts 2020

December 25, 2020December 25, 2020 by Polly Castor
Christmas Thoughts 2020

This Christmas and beyond, let’s shine forth with that Spirit!

Categories Hope, Spirituality Tags Christ, Christian, gratitude, Holiday, Jesus, Newspaper Articles, Release, Spiritual Healing, Virtue 3 Comments

Recent Bible Lesson Journal Pages

February 3, 2021December 13, 2020 by Polly Castor
Bible Lesson Journal Pages

I encourage you to keep your own ongoing journal of your spiritual study. Here are recent pages from mine.

Categories Spirituality Tags Bible, Bible Lesson Journal, Christian, God, Spiritual Healing, Virtue 3 Comments

Quotes from Abraham Heschel’s book The Sabbath

December 14, 2020December 6, 2020 by Polly Castor
Quotes from Abraham Heschel's The Sabbath

Here are some thoughtful bits from a Jewish classic about the Sabbath.

Categories Books, Ideas, Spirituality Tags life lessons, Mindfulness, Quotes, reformation, Special Occasions, Virtue 4 Comments

Stop, Look, Consider (Quote from Leo Tolstoy)

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 by Polly Castor
Stop Look Consider Leo Tolstoy quote

The most important advice Leo Tolstoy could give.

Categories Hope, Ideas, Spirituality Tags Christian, Mindfulness, Quotes, Release, Virtue 3 Comments

Pro Life and Pro Choice

November 19, 2020November 17, 2020 by Polly Castor
Pro-life and Pro-choice

This is where I stand, both pro-life and pro-choice, but not the way that you might think.

Categories Hope, Ideas Tags Essay, peace, Virtue 21 Comments

Holding Together (Poem by David Abram)

November 15, 2020November 15, 2020 by Polly Castor
Holding Together by David Abrams

I am so grateful for all those, who through their love and joy, hold it all together during challenging times.

Categories Hope, Poetry Tags gratitude, poetry by others, Virtue 4 Comments

Embracing Our Differences (New Conceptualist Painting)

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020 by Polly Castor
Embracing Our Differences painting, by Polly Castor

Opposite colors make each other look better!

Categories Art Tags Abstract Art, pastel, peace, Virtue Leave a comment

We the People (poem by Rosemary Cobham)

November 8, 2020 by Polly Castor
We the People poem

We are in this together, and we can decide to hold the world to our highest humanhood.

Categories Hope, Poetry Tags community, life lessons, poetry by others, Virtue 3 Comments
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Reviews from Readers

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?

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!

I love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited joy.

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.

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

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

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

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

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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! ❤️

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

Really beautiful, very hope filled. I love this!

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

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

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

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

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 !

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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!

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Your blogs are a delight.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

This is a beautiful summary and reminder of how we can both individually and collectively dissolve the powerless, baseless lies with Truth. Thank you, Polly!!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

I LOVE YOU!!

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

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

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

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

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

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

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

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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…

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.

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

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

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

Hoping others can/will read this…

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

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 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!

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

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

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

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

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

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

I never before found computers this beautiful….

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

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

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

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

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

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

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

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

This is spectacular, Polly! I love it!

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

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

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!

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.

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!!

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

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

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

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

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

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

I recently I recommended your blog to a friend saying, “She’s like a dear friend, she just doesn’t know me.” Thank you for all the delight you add to my days!

I 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!

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.

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

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 passing along such wise words.

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

I am touched by this well thought out, well written essay. You have put into words what so many of us have in our minds and hearts. Thank you!

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

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 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…

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’m so grateful for all you share with us.

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

This is absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for expanding my ways to see, Polly.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 !

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

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

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!

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

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

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

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!!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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

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

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

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

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks for the nudge!

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

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

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

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

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

Well said Polly!

Life is so exciting we should limit ourselves less!

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

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

Love your pastels!

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

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