Tamara Willems
April 3, 2026
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#beingkindness, #inthiswritersgarden, #measaflower, #pinkmoon, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Monday morning early, at workwhile getting to the wateringI met a snake, it startled meI don’t mind snakes, as a speciesit just makes one jump, when something movesunexpectedly it occurs to me now, that thisis precisely what social anxiety feels…
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Tamara Willems
April 1, 2026
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#fiction, #inthiswritersgarden, #itsonlywords, #measaflower, #readgoodbooks, #slang, #toyouthisday
This morning begins kind of dullin colour onlythe skies don’t hold any particular shadetodayspring temperatures having once again taken adipand showers remain kind ofimminentApril 1st, and so I supposethe flowers and I arekind ofexpecting it I come with coffee, to…
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Tamara Willems
March 25, 2026
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#beingkindness, #inthiswritersgarden, #measaflower, #noticelife, #toyouthisday
Outside, the back garden looks bleakvery early spring, it’s true but most anywhere you lookthe dogs have trampledand one particular fellow, has chewedand dugand just generally annihilatedany resemblance ofbeautifying nature I’ve been away from my usual writing postI’m sure your…
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Tamara Willems
January 21, 2026
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#howweholdon, #inthiswritersgarden, #measaflower, #noticelife, #toyouthisday, #winter, #winterwinds
To look out on the gardenmid-to-late Januarywondering, as I do…is it the gorgeously strong seed headsthat tenderly hold the snowas it falls or is it the snowas it gatherstogetherin numbers that indeed add their strengthto the seed headsas they standindefianceof…
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Tamara Willems
November 21, 2025
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#dayoff, #inmynovembergarden, #inthiswritersgarden, #measaflower, #mustlovedogs, #nothingmuch, #ohtheroses, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Maybe in the grand scheme of thingsit isn’t really muchof anything… this morning, I am about four hundred pages inwhich is a little lessthan half-waythroughthe most wonderful bookthat I am enjoyingimmenselyconsisting of letters between six sistersspanning about the wholeof the…
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Tamara Willems
November 1, 2025
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#birthdayeve, #birthdaygirl, #inthiswritersgarden, #measaflower, #newchapter, #noticelife, #sixtyonsixty, #toyouthisday, #writelife
This morning I notice a bookunder the nightstandby our bed It’s called Fifty on Fifty orsomething of that naturewhile here I am on the eve often years pastand… I’m not even sure I have read it it seems strange yet,…
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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
July 6, 2025
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#arcticblue, #documentary, #inthiswritersgarden, #lifelately, #measaflower, #noticelife, #summer, #toyouthisday, #writelife
In the high heat of summer dayswhich I absolutelylovedays in which it isvitalthat yousitfor a time, and give thanksfor a breezeand the intermittent coverage of passingclouds where the soft coo of the doveseems to suitthescorchdays where one would expect to…
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Tamara Willems
July 1, 2025
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#canada, #canadaday, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #lovingawareness, #measaflower, #toyouthisday, #truenorthstrongandfree, #writelife
first things first, in the immortal words ofthe great Canadian singer-songwriter Stompin’ Tom Connors♪It’s Canada Day up Canada way on the first day of July ♪(c’mon, you knew it was coming) Today absolutely gorgeousblue skies, sunshine, light breezein the garden,…
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