Tamara Willems
May 22, 2020
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#daydreambeliever, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #thingsiknow
Today I’m thinking about authoritative things,and things I am expert about(also known as random thoughts and thinking thingsI think, as I wander the garden) like miracles,as I am watching the bees in the blossoms on my crab apple treeamazed by…
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Tamara Willems
May 18, 2020
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#gratefulliving, #raindropskeepfalling, #simplepleasures
This morning I coach the washing machinethrough the spin cycle,I know it’s jeans, I say in a comforting tone,and they tend to make you feela littleoff centre,but just do the best you canto which it kindly acquiesces I return to…
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Tamara Willems
May 15, 2020
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#inthiswritersgarden, #outsidemywindow, #restandbewell, #talkingtomyself, #watchingmygardengrow
This morning what I’m feeling is a great deal of painin my forearms, wrists, hands and fingersnumbness in my right hand and swelling,painful limited movement in my left thumbhands that have served me well,but also need torestmaking it quite uncomfortable…
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Tamara Willems
May 9, 2020
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#inthiswritersgarden, #jdsalinger, #morningwalkofgratitude, #readgoodbooks
Yesterday I finished reading a book on J.D. Salingerfeeling quite fired up, I am anxious to sit down and writea graciously respectful nod to someone who came to feel(in rather audacious thoughts) as somewhat of a kindred soul who so…
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Tamara Willems
May 1, 2020
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#andlove, #belove, #holdingyou, #loveandloss, #remembertobreathe, #thisisallwehave
This morning againfinding oneself herereminding yourself to breathefully and deeplyvoluntarily carrying the weight of lossa friend whose heart has been inextricably tornaway by the loss of his belovedand what can one possibly say to reduce some small bit ofthe emptiness…
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Tamara Willems
April 24, 2020
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#andnothings, #beautifulthings, #blessedbeaday, #fitzgerald, #forthinking, #salinger
This morning I’m reading about J.D. Salingerand can feel the internal excitement beginning to jumpat the mention of F. Scott Fitzgerald I am choosing to read without the benefitof my reading glasses in absolute defiance of giving in toaging eyesconstantly…
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Tamara Willems
April 22, 2020
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#andsotobegin, #deepsigh, #frommywindow, #tothelighthouse, #virginiawoolf
This morning through the window by my chairI can see a catsat drinking from the small pond there is something to a daythat begins in sunlightas one travels silently alongin the words of Virginia Woolf and thinks,I shall never againattempt…
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Tamara Willems
April 19, 2020
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#cloudyday, #looktothelight, #notsobravenewworld, #solaceinthegarden, #whereareyou
Things continue on intouncertaintiesthe monotony of whichcauses fissuresof frustration to splay themselveson the kitchen floorspilling on to words liketrust, faith andknowingallowing crassconspirators more room tobuild ridiculous thingsin plain sightno sun today, just cloudand the worry that weshall not be better…
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Tamara Willems
April 17, 2020
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#inthiswritersgarden, #keepyourselfopen, #lookforthemagic, #surroundyourselfwithlove, #toyouthisday
This morning I’m thinkingI just really want more time with my husbandwhich may sound odd, as currently he is here all day, every day(and I’ve only just gone back to work)right now he is at the grocery storeas the driver…
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Tamara Willems
April 10, 2020
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#alwayslookingup, #gratefulliving, #openlikethesky, #outoftheblue, #thoughtsonaday
Quite out of the bluea funny little phrase, this morning I received a lovely messagefrom a frienda simple greeting of joythat begins my daywith a smileyesterday in fact I received two.. no, no come to think of itfour, four lovely…
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