Tamara Willems
October 15, 2025
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Today,I am enamouredby change(tis the season and all that) today I ambesottedby human kindness today, I am absolutely awestruckand amazedby love and today, if you’ll bear with me, will be an odeto my lovely husbandthat is to say, once againjust…
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Tamara Willems
October 4, 2025
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#falldays, #inthiswritersgarden, #neighbours, #seasonschange, #time, #toyouthisday
This week marked thirty yearsthat we have beenin our houseand always this day feels just likelove to meclearly, I can remember coming to look at itfrom our first tiny, greenhouseto this lovely, large, older charactertwo small boys in towneeding to…
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Tamara Willems
September 28, 2025
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#falldays, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #measaflower, #noticelife, #peacefilled, #rhythmandblues, #september, #sundaykindoflove, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Last week, MondayI come in from work to tell himI have hit mylow earlier, I have quite silently whispered to myselfI cannot go oneverything feels, as if Iammuch too fragile for this old world on the inside, I push througha…
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Tamara Willems
September 20, 2025
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#beingkindness, #frogs, #inthiswritersgarden, #jackkornfield, #lewiscarroll, #measaflower, #metta, #poison, #toyouthisday, #writelife
“If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”~ Lewis Carroll Days have felt likeAlicetumbling down into the darknessofthe rabbit holeunable to grab hold of muchor make senseof a worldgone tonon-sense…
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Tamara Willems
September 12, 2025
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Today,our anniversary33 years, my love and Ias Mr. and Mrs. what I was thinking about this morning,those many years agowe were married on a Saturdaywent away for a few daysand my husband was back to workby Tuesday life is not…
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Tamara Willems
September 1, 2025
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#change, #inthiswritersgarden, #lettinggo, #lovelosslife, #newyear, #september, #toyouthisday, #wherewegofromhere
September one…always feels a bit like, the new yeardoesn’t itmy most loved season starts to face itsendand we, each of us,in so many waysbegin to facechangeandwaysof letting go today as I sitclouds in the gorgeous skyever so slowlysailchanging from the…
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Tamara Willems
August 27, 2025
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#anxietyhappens, #belove, #inmyaugustgarden, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #toyouthisday, #writelife
If I was to begin withnothing much to tell you… it’s the season of my husband working lots(there’s a few)and the nature of the business he’s inwe’ve never had weekends likepeopledoso, we’re not off adventuring orweekendingone night a week we…
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Tamara Willems
August 22, 2025
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#augustinthegarden, #clouds, #frogs, #gratefulliving, #hummingbirds, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #mylai, #pompeii, #toads, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Friday morningmid-August, blue skies andsunshineof course, you will know wheretofindme the loveliest temperatures todaynot too hot, justabsolutely beautiful outside first thing, I am metby the all familiar humthat will render one quite stillthe vibration of wingsrapidlybeatingjust beside mea gorgeous little…
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Tamara Willems
August 15, 2025
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#anniedillard, #atomicpeople, #august, #augustfeels, #frogs, #inthiswritersgarden, #readgoodbooks, #summer, #toyouthisday, #writelife
I will never not bethe child of an alcoholic I will never not beaware of just when scales have beentipped of lost conversationsof lessgraciousnessof lesscaring memories blurred or missed of much less connectionand of course,caring I will never not be…
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Tamara Willems
August 6, 2025
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#frogs, #handtoheart, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #noticelife, #pondlife, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Another gorgeous, gorgeous day,I mean, that aloneis to becelebrated, but this morning, something wonderful a walk to my most peaceful spotthe pondwhere for a time I will gaze on familiar spacesas I doevery day there are words, etched on my…
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