Tamara Willems
August 10, 2024
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#beingkindness, #beinglove, #birthday, #family, #feathers, #goodintentions, #grief, #inthiswritersgarden, #loveandloss, #toyouthisday, #youmatter
From where I sit, I can seehigh up in the crab apple treea small feather blowing in the breezeas it quite activelycatchesthelightand my eye I wonder to myself about itstravelsand how it has come tolightjust here up through the branches,the…
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Tamara Willems
July 27, 2024
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#beinglove, #beingpeace, #inthiswritersgarden, #measaflower, #mosquito, #sunflower, #swallowtailbutterfly, #toyouthisday, #whatareyoureading, #writelife
On Thursday, at the end of another hotwork dayI spend some timetrying to convince a gorgeous black swallowtail butterflythatI ampeace this beautiful being has found its wayunfortunatelyin to the greenhouse where I workwhere, I happen to know wella lot of…
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Tamara Willems
July 3, 2024
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#beinglove, #inmyjulygarden, #inthiswritersgarden, #loveisall, #lovelosslife, #marknepo, #measaflower, #queenoftheprairie, #strugglesandstrength, #writelife
This morning,I am wondering how you are doingin the sort ofin-between of things sometimes the hardest partwhen the weight of it allsets intoa sandy bottomwhere complete body exhaustionsettles overand the brain, knowing of a grace-filledpeaceinstead feels kind offog Lovecaringpeacegriefguiltreliefrelease breathe…
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Tamara Willems
December 23, 2023
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#alliwantforchristmas, #beinglove, #celebrate, #christmas, #christmas2023, #christmaswish, #december, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #santasworkshop, #toyouthisday
Morning, December 23rdthe fan in the bedroomabove the bedbeginsa tinysqueak… and I am awake with thoughtsofthingsto be accomplished tis the season of wondersnot least of allfor a Momand one whose feeble attemptswill always beto keep the magicin Christmas and this…
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Tamara Willems
December 15, 2023
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#beingkindness, #beinglove, #decemberfeels, #ebbandflow, #howyoudoin, #inthiswritersgarden, #toyouthisday
Last week begins,anxiety highand I can feel it on the insideif I am stillit pullsand it churns like one of thosebingo things that tumbles the ballswith numbers on themit is worry for thingsunknownfor my kids, and for thingsIhaven’t donefor things…
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Tamara Willems
June 14, 2023
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#beinglove, #celebratelife, #inthiswritersgarden, #sonswedding, #toyouthisday, #weddings, #wegatherhere
I haven’t yet said too muchabout itabout how absolutely, endearingly wonderfulit all wasright from starttofinish how the evening beforesomeone both lovely and kindwould come in to the gardenand say to me,oh my… I would never want to leaveand I would…
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Tamara Willems
November 19, 2021
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#beinglove, #inthiswritersgarden, #onelovingsoul, #readgoodbooks, #toyouthisday, #whatdoyouwant
This morning I finish a book by a highly accomplished, much determined quite inspiring, creative woman written about a dark and difficult time in her life but coming out the other sidelovinglyand I finish it with that all familiar sigh… what is it you want in…
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Tamara Willems
November 10, 2021
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#beingkindness, #beinglove, #donotfeedthefears, #momentsoflight, #thebeatofmyheart, #whatareyouafraidof
I have what is known as a heart murmur, described to me as one valve smaller, and the need for the heart to pump a little bit more to get the blood through so essentially what I have is an extra heartbeat that…
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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
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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