Tamara Willems
April 14, 2023
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#beingkindness, #butterflies, #dogs, #inthiswritersgarden, #marvelousthings, #mustlovetoads, #robins, #springsunshine, #toyouthisday, #trees
This morning we take a drive,as I amnot a driverand a drive with my husband being one of myfavourite things, especiallyon a lovely morning such as thisI sit quite enjoying the scenerychattering away to my love about thingsour sometimes opposing…
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Tamara Willems
April 9, 2023
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#beingpeace, #halfwaydown, #halfwayup, #inthiswritersgarden, #nesting, #robins, #spring, #toyouthisday
On the way up the stairsin my housethere are two small windowsone is up quite highthe other one you pass each timeyouclimb the up high window is often whereIin the very early, still darkhoursof the morningon the way downwill find…
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Tamara Willems
April 5, 2023
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#heartopen, #inthiswritersgarden, #knowinglove, #puppylove, #springcame, #toyouthisday
If I can tell you anything,it’s just thiskeep your heart open we thought we’d been brokenwell in truthwe knew we hadand scars remain, most everywhereyoulookaround us, someon us not again he said,not anymore. Spring came though,as we knew itwouldand again…
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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
March 10, 2023
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#booklove, #dogs, #kindnesscounts, #listening, #loss, #love, #mustlovedogs, #noticelife, #olddogs, #snowfall
I wonder, you knowhow often it isyouwill check in with love today thinking aboutmy Uncle Johnwho has been gone a whole yearyet how much I always feel the presence of both heand my Aunt Patstillin guidance and incaring today, celebrating…
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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
February 24, 2023
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#birthdaylove, #davidkelly, #dontmissachance, #ianbennan, #memories, #onthisday, #sayitnow, #sayitoutloud, #sunshine, #wakingneddevine.
Today in sunshine, I am thinking with gratitudeof a dear heartwho has a birthday today and also in the many memoriesof my dear Dad as wellI am listening to the soundtrack from Waking Ned Devinewhich I love in no small…
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Tamara Willems
February 22, 2023
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#anxiety, #beingkindness, #bewell, #expand, #howwelisten, #kindness, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.~ Karl A. Menninger The nature…
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