Tamara Willems
September 6, 2024
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#barrywhite, #inawritersgarden, #katebowler, #readgoodbooks, #september, #septembermorn, #toyouthisday, #writelife
This morning lovely husband isup early, wee hours one might say,and I half-consciously listenfor his going in the darkness he comes quietlyand bends, to kiss me good-byesandback to sleepin kindness the dog lifts the blankets with his snoutsnuggles into the…
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Tamara Willems
February 5, 2024
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#applesonawindowsill, #artandartist, #artbookslife, #beautifulthings, #onmyshelf, #ordinarylife, #palimpsestpress, #photography, #readgoodbooks, #shawnalemay, #springsteen, #stilllife, #transactionswithbeauty
Well now, to have finished a booksuch as this a beautiful book aboutstill life and lifeinstill–ness days of pandemic and how it waswegot ourselvesthrough about photographywhat it is we may be looking ator forand what it is wesee about life,…
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Tamara Willems
August 27, 2023
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#augustfeels, #goldenrod, #inthiswritersgarden, #latesummer, #livinglovinglearning, #livingmygratitude, #openlikesky, #readgoodbooks, #toyouthisday
When the goldenrod begins to bloomand the hummingbird trafficincreasesthe sunmoves over just a little morein the skyand the sugar maples start boldly in toblushwhen yellow-jackets take a keen interestin each and every movementand apples begin a slightrosy-ing up one hesitates…
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Tamara Willems
August 11, 2023
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#augustfeels, #inthiswritersgarden, #readgoodbooks, #searchingforsugarman, #toyouthisday
August in the garden feelslikeluxurythere is a sort of graciouseaseto itwhere nothing needs to betendedbothered or fussed aboutthe growers have grownthe bloomers havebloomedsome already faded and gonesome stillshinetadpoles become toadsbaby birds have well since flownthe nestandbutterflies abound this week I…
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Tamara Willems
March 15, 2023
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#inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #lovingkindness, #readgoodbooks, #selfcare, #sunrise, #toyouthisday
This morning it’s the rising sunon the fenceand how outside my windoweverything is litin the brilliance ofgold the comfort one feelsin the simple highlightof acozy little birdhouseon the post this morning in the quietI travel deeper into a bookwhere the…
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Tamara Willems
February 5, 2023
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#chairbythewindow, #livingmygratitude, #lovesurrounds, #noticelife, #readgoodbooks, #toyouthisday, #wintrydulls, #writelife
I’ve been reading a terrific bookabout circumstance, homelessnessstrength, endurance andin the end, theone foot in front of the other kind ofwalkingalso, the healing nature ofnatureand of love as I read, I have felt myself to a muchmuchlesser degree, struggling alongthrough…
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Tamara Willems
August 31, 2022
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#asuitableboy, #idratherbereading, #ilikebigbooksandicannotlie, #readgoodbooks, #summervacation, #vikramseth
Finished! Whew!!Just this morning, I finished reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth.What a fantastic read! I don’t often read fiction any more,and I’m not gonna lie, I kind of became interested in this book, when I first heard it…
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Tamara Willems
February 2, 2022
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#beinglovingkindness, #itsgroundhogday, #readgoodbooks, #ripplesofloveandkindness, #totouchtheheartofanother, #toyouthisday
This morning, I am quiet, contented joy with the most incredible bout of loving kindness bubbling up inside (*slight alteration in moods may occur, which is why I am telling you here) this then, is how this sort of thing begins last week, I sent a…
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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
July 24, 2021
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#readgoodbooks, #savedbyasong, #thatrainydayfeeling, #therighttobecold, #togentlygo, #toyoudearreader, #wordsthatmatter
Last night I knock a jar of ginger down off the shelf which then hits the dinner plate below breaking off an edge a brief moment of devastation and disappointment as someone who talks to herself a lot I am very conscious of harsh, defeating self-talk and it’s something…
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