Tamara Willems
October 23, 2019
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#autumnlight, #effectsofalcohol, #stepsonapath, #thinkingoutloud, #writelife
It is interesting reading about children of alcoholics (being one myself)and its effect on one’s development andcharacteron one’s whole life’s telling and also strangely being at this age of life (thoughtful, introspective, no longer so very young)and witnessing first hand…
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Tamara Willems
October 20, 2019
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#beingpeace, #fondremembrance, #kindcomfort, #livinggratitude, #lovetofindyou
Thursday,I come to the end of my work weekand sink myself lowinto the kind comfort of homean autumn sort of chill is in the airof late, all day wind and rain,so at home, I am a socks AND slipperskind of…
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Tamara Willems
October 9, 2019
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#justbeingkindness, #livinggratitudeeveryday, #octoberlight, #shineyourlight, #toyouthisday
In my garden and in my pictures I am appreciating the light of October,in part I suppose because I can feel myself caught somewherein the aimless wander of fallwhat is it I have got to say these days.. and who…
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Tamara Willems
October 2, 2019
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Today was the gift of ordinary things,a quiet morning togetherand realizing that the house isindeed emptyexcept for the two ofyou… a much needed haircutfrom the loveliestof heartsbeautiful .. again, a simple trip to the grocery storewith someoneyoulove turning up the…
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Tamara Willems
September 25, 2019
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#certainuncertains, #facingtheday, #letstakeawalk, #openlikesky
Today I am feeling the feelings of fallsome sun and some shadea soft fading of colourtoday I am partial automatic pilotone foot in front of the other sort of thinggoing through…. the motions, one could say a couple of days…
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Tamara Willems
September 20, 2019
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#furtherstudiesofmeasaflower, #livingmygratitude, #livingpeace, #practicelove, #toyouthisday, #trynottoworry
When it becomes a practice,(when it becomes mypractice)to see beautiful thingsto regularly look at things in lightand shadeto see everyday ordinary thingssimple thingsasbeautifulit quickly takes the place of nasty thingsof ugly thingsof spiteful thingsdirty politics and popular opinionsbecome big businessname…
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Tamara Willems
September 18, 2019
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#gatheringkindness, #happilybathedinsunlight, #livingmygratitude, #openlikesky
Today is a day to dopleasant things… and so it begins with not havingto go in to work, sleep a little laterand coffee togetherthen starting a new bookwhich from the opening lines, I know alreadyI will lovea message from a…
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Tamara Willems
September 13, 2019
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“The gate to human well-being swings open when we practice living with a grateful heart. When we find gratitude, we find freedom and love.”~ Jack Kornfield This morning,I had an Echocardiogram,and let me tell youit is rather comfortingto listentothe beatingof…
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Tamara Willems
September 4, 2019
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#inawritersgarden, #septemberbegins, #shineyourlight
Up in the night with a dog who doesn’t like thunderstormsfirst thing this morning, down for coffeeI am greeted by a slew of expletives flying outsidethe kitchen windowthe roofers have returnedthe cats and I are feeling like we aresurrounded by…
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Tamara Willems
September 2, 2019
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Is it just me, or does it appearthat the wing of this lovely littlebeing has been repairedby the silk of aspider every small act of kindnesscan indeedbe a very grand actoflove … seeking all and any waysto be and do justthat ♥