Author Archive: Tamara Willems

I startle myself awake from a bad dream heart pounding, restless full of fear as a result, when I do arise I am not feeling rested instead I am tense anxious frayed my jaw is tight my thoughts race and…
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how to know Love when you meet it i knew him before, sure but one time, in jest he kissed my hand and though the moment passed quite innocently somehow, that kiss lingered on my skin i had been kissed…
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Even before I wake there it is the all too familiar pain it hurts to lift the blanket it hurts to lift my coffee cup even now it aches as I press the scroll on my keyboard yet still I…
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I am currently reading M Train by Patti Smith.  The extraordinary Patti Smith, I might add. I am consumed, and completely awed by the seemingly ordinary majesty of this fiercely intelligent woman.   While I read, and wander (as I…
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he leaves before I am fully awake it’s too early and I am warm and snugly until he is gone then suddenly I am aware that part of my comfort is missing the coffee is waiting when I come down…
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A very dear friend of mine asked me if I could offer some words of comfort that she could share with a family member who had lost her Mother.  Although I was greatly honoured by this, I was a little…
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Snow again is coming down and piling up and even though it is my day off and I am once again nursing a very sore hand and arm my husband has not left me enough coffee to warrant just sitting…
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there is never any shame in showing our humanness or well, there should not be what if we did not hide away did not turn our gaze what if we did not pass judgement scoff or look down on what…
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I went out this morning in my flip flops always my footwear of choice sunshine on my shoulders cool breeze on my toes I went out with my camera hunting for signs of beauty but sometimes they are not in…
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I had a little chat with the toad I met at work today and although he tried ever so to convince me and I noticed that twinkle in his eye I did not honour him with a kiss I admired…
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