Tamara Willems
July 7, 2021
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#beinglove, #griefinourdays, #inmygarden, #lossandlonging, #toyouthisday, #treesoflife, #untilitsgone
Today.. well today is, as they say – all the feels. Today, a day when our big maple tree is cut down, for safety. After a brief but mighty wind blew through in a thunderstorm, last weekbreaking off substantial branches…
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Tamara Willems
July 3, 2021
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#begoodtoyou, #gentlywithgratitude, #inkindness, #tobegin, #toyouthisday, #whenitmatters
It matters, I will tell you in how you begin when your mood for the day feels rather salty or is it now crunchy, as my daughters might say it matters in how you will get up to make your own coffee open a new book you may not be quite…
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Tamara Willems
June 30, 2021
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#abovealllove, #afterastorm, #knowbetterdobetter, #listenandlearn, #toyouthisday
When after a brief but somewhat ferocious storm we are left with the aftermath and destruction, when the fallen and snapped off portions have been cut, chipped and carted away the disfigured remainder left standing now added to the terminal list, how sad one feels at the inevitability of losing one…
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Tamara Willems
June 25, 2021
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#gobelove, #lovenotes, #lovingkindness, #sayitoutloud, #strawberrymoon
Last night’s Strawberry Full Moon, which was big and bright, but a with the promise of humidity and rain in the air also quite hazy, peeking through the trees while I staying up way past exhaustive time to watch the hockey game was far too tired to…
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Tamara Willems
June 23, 2021
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#comfortinagarden, #gratefulliving, #inmyjunegarden, #speakingwiththefishes, #towakingslow, #toyouthisday
This morning finds me feeling a little unwell not sure if it is something I ate or just what but I am taking it slow and gentle already my husband is out in the garden cleaning up bits he thinks I may not notice before he is off to…
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Tamara Willems
June 16, 2021
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#anxietyhappens, #frommetoyou, #howtodeal, #lovingkindness, #putthekettleon, #talkingtoflowers, #toyouthisday
The week begins in high anxiety, which I can tell you feels like a constant churning inside worries of unknown origin incessant gnawing some sort of invisible thing chewing away at small pieces inside of me or running wildly on a wheel to get very quickly nowhere Ugh… really is my…
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Tamara Willems
June 11, 2021
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#inthiswritersgarden, #onesmallredbug, #quietgratitude, #soakupthesun, #toyouthisday
“There’s your shot right there, he says, where’s your camera!?! “like it is somehow always attached the current point of focus this little red bugalthough my first shot, when I grab itis a ladybugwho has caught my eye so brilliantly vibrant in the morning…
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Tamara Willems
June 6, 2021
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#cominguproses, #inthiswritersgarden, #meandthetoads, #soakupthesun, #toyouthisday
Last night, shaken awake by a wild ruckus down the street much yelling and screaming that went on into the wee, wee hours finally and thankfully attended to by police this morning, the dog will not allow me to sleep in so I am up… like a bear and I tell my…
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Tamara Willems
June 2, 2021
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#comealittlecloser, #icouldpromiseyou, #inmygarden, #iwritethewords, #practicethis
If I could promise you, that each time you took just one step out of doors something wonderful would be there to greet you no matter how you had been feeling that day with something joyful, just simple or sweet that there were miracles and magic and wonder waiting… somewhere just next to you that might…
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Tamara Willems
May 26, 2021
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#beinggratitude, #beingkindness, #beinglove, #getupgoout, #laundrydaylove, #toyouthisday, #writelife
As I am about to begin, I almost always start with – this morning… where actually, I realize it is already afternoon morning having slipped away, while I was reading having once again sunken quiet deliciously into a fantastic new book thinking it best that I take…
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