Tamara Willems
February 23, 2022
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#autumnpeltier, #elainebrown, #groundyourselfinlove, #inmygreatgratitude, #johnlewis, #listenup, #toyouthisday, #whatareyouthinkingabout, #writelife
Currently what I am reading is A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown one woman’s story of resistance and resilience of, for the most part, young disenfranchised inspired people coming up in the Black Panther organization while also last night revisiting the remarkable…
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Tamara Willems
February 19, 2022
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#beginwithyou, #beingpeace, #inthiswritersgarden, #renewalinthesilence, #toyouthisday
As the beauty of the sparkly sunshine suddenly turns to a more colour- less kind of sky snowflakes increase in velocity and a cold brisk wind begins to nip I have just stopped for counsel with the morning dove the dove represents peace of the deepest kind, I…
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Tamara Willems
February 9, 2022
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#awanderinwords, #calculatingodds, #comeonpeacetrain, #expandingourcircle, #livinglove, #thenewmath, #toyouthisday
Maybe we did need to learn math, for a reason… as how then do we propose to care about the world that seems determined to set its sights upon the brutish, brash image of division where the much determined divisives differentiate themselves by louder than bravado multiplying volatility armoured in…
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Tamara Willems
February 4, 2022
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#mindfulness, #savouringmoments, #stanleytucci, #taste, #thoughtsonaday, #touchinggiants, #toyouthisday
This morning I look at the Isle of Lewis and the standing stones of Callanish where one legend has them as the remnants of giants turned to stone and I think of placing one’s palm just there and breathing this in I find myself a…
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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
January 28, 2022
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#beingfrivolous, #beingpoetry, #howwesaveourselves, #inthiswritersgarden, #toyouthisday
When I am being frivolous as today, I spend my time looking at beautiful things, like sunshine on the snow, how it sparkles magically deceiving us into thinking how lovely it would be to put our footprints down never minding the ghastly windchill and how it might…
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Tamara Willems
January 19, 2022
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This morning, I’m awake too early still feeling myself to be in that sort of unknown kind of place the lump in my throat holds the gathering of tears, maybe I’m afraid yet to fully let go it always comes as such hard thing,…
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Tamara Willems
January 15, 2022
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#beingkindness, #crueltobekind, #dulcettones, #lovemetender, #manifeellikeawoman, #thankyouforbeingafriend, #toyouthisday, #wartsandall
It’s like that you know, I will tell this friend it just comes every so often, and January well yes, there is that… I know, anxiety starts to act up, considers itself most important of thought churns things up in a constant motion makes for rather…
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Tamara Willems
January 9, 2022
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#bethechange, #expandyourcircle, #forsomethingkind, #maketheworldkinder, #mysmallrequest, #outsideyourself, #puzzlingthings, #toyouthisday
thoughts on our interconnectedness, and * a simple request for participation… This one is impossipuzzle, he says frustrated at the rate of progress on our latest endeavour ah, it’s good for your brain, I tell him thinking, problem solving, different perspectives sounds like too much…
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Tamara Willems
January 1, 2022
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#2022, #andsowebegin, #gratefulliving, #newday, #newyear, #songsaboutlove, #toyouthisday, #whatiftoday
‘Hmmm, I don’t know…’ some of the most beautiful words strung together, I think as this is where we remain curious this is where we can seek, where we can listen and where we can learn to begin again a brand new day, begins a brand new year this waking hour of beginning again where we are…
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