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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Tamara Willems
August 4, 2025
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#augustfeels, #feathers, #gardens, #hummingbirdmoth, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #lovingkindness, #mayyoube, #ponds, #toyouthisday, #writelife
This morning, once againabsolute perfection in a summer’s daywell, probably not completely perfect, after allisn’t that some kind ofsillywordwhat I really mean to say is, temperature wisesights and sounds wisewarm filtered sun, light gorgeous breezeaccompanying trill of the grasshoppersmy very…
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Tamara Willems
August 1, 2025
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#augustbegins, #bythepond, #downywoodpecker, #galwaykinnell, #hummingbirdmoth, #inthiswritersgarden, #totellyouofmylove, #toyouthisday
This morning I’ll begin on my ownin the gardenwhere the day is absolutely gorgeousAugust… to begin crazy though, doesn’t it feel as if Julyhad only just started the oppressive heat has moved off againand the temperatures are todayjustsetto please a…
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Tamara Willems
July 23, 2025
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#growlesslawn, #inmyjulygarden, #inthiswritersgarden, #noticelife, #readgoodbooks, #toyouthisday, #wordsmatter, #writelife
Three or four days ago, I quit a bookto the faithful few (ha!), you might knowthis is not something I dooftentrue, I have been in a bit of areadingfunkstart… stumble through.. move on(also not like me)my work day read, is…
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Tamara Willems
July 18, 2025
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#andreagibson, #ellafitzgerald, #inthiswritersgarden, #irvingberlin, #july, #liveinlove, #lovelyday, #lovesongs, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Today, I sat down to write you a love songof course it started with abright blue skywith narya cloud in sightand the vision of a lovely half-moonrefusing as he wasto go to bedat the proper timeremained up there, until way…
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Tamara Willems
July 11, 2025
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#clouds, #inmyjulygarden, #inthiswritersgarden, #summerscent, #toyouthisday
When first I step out, the airsmellsa most comforting scent, of hot summer airand…the lakethink this to be a memory scentfrom my childhoodand my children’s childhood,as I don’t live by a lakebut certainly spent many, many summersthereit’s a beautiful sort…
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