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
February 7, 2024
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#booksmusicmovies, #inmyfebruarygarden, #inthiswritersgarden, #loveandloss, #measaflower, #music, #payattention, #tobykeith, #toyouthisday
Tuesday morning, I see that Toby Keith has diedfrom stomach cancerimmediately I forward the message to ourfamily group chatsad three things, very important to our familybooks, music, moviesbut I could also add to this,smart, intelligent witandhumourand something I am always…
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Tamara Willems
July 12, 2023
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#friendship, #inthiswritersgarden, #loveandloss, #measaflower, #sayitoutloud, #toberemembered, #toyouthisday, #writelife
This morning the sky begins inbluebut rather quickly is blanketedin the fluffy white-nessof a slightly cooler but,neverthelessbeautiful day the garden, in its summer gloryhas received so much rain latelyit looks to be sittinglush andlow due to a falling tree last…
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Tamara Willems
March 7, 2023
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#addiction, #gettingthrough, #grief, #lookwhostalking, #loveandloss, #sayitoutloud, #talkingtoyourself
I happen to talk to myself a lotand out loudI come by this, I think in part because oftime spent in hospital, after an operationsharing a roomwith a lovely woman, whose name was VioletViolet happened to have, I guess one…
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Tamara Willems
March 5, 2023
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#afterlife, #ahandtohold, #grief, #loveandloss, #noticelife, #rainbow, #signsoflife, #substanceabuse, #toyouthisday, #trustlovealittle, #youarethegoodintheworld
Yesterday, in the midst of everyday ordinarytaskson my way up the stairs, with a basketof laundryI noticed the appearance of a very brightrainbowon the closet door and I stopped here, in this momentto just take it inthen as we do…
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Tamara Willems
March 4, 2023
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#addiction, #loss, #lossofafriend, #loveandloss, #memories, #substanceabuse, #toyouthisday
A winter storm that strangely comeswith thunder and frequentwild flashes of lightning under the great weightof heavy wet snowa large branch falls from a treein the gardenand crashes to the ground… the loss of someonewho has been fighting their own…
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Tamara Willems
October 13, 2021
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#familyloss, #frommyhearttoyou, #loveandloss, #toyouthisday
To be there for someone in a time of loss to offer one love and support and kindness above all I think, kindness there is no taking away the profound emptiness of a light either slowly or suddenly diminished for a time there is no explaining…
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Tamara Willems
May 1, 2020
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#andlove, #belove, #holdingyou, #loveandloss, #remembertobreathe, #thisisallwehave
This morning againfinding oneself herereminding yourself to breathefully and deeplyvoluntarily carrying the weight of lossa friend whose heart has been inextricably tornaway by the loss of his belovedand what can one possibly say to reduce some small bit ofthe emptiness…
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Tamara Willems
January 1, 2020
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#inawritersgarden, #livinggratefully, #loveandloss, #newyearnewdecade, #thevalueoflife
Last night I had a dream that friends arrived at ours and brought with thema new kitchen floor, for usa pallet plunked in the middle of the roompiled with a thousand puzzle like piecesthat we had to break apart, and…
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