Tamara Willems
April 10, 2026
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#cemeteries, #inthiswritersgarden, #neuroscience, #noticelife, #readgoodbooks, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Gazing out the window this morningI watch a robin in the rainpoking holes in wet earthsearching forworms I am reading about cemeterieswhich happen to besomethingthatIlove often you know, while reading, whilewatching, whilelearningI will think to myselfThis!this is what I should…
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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
February 21, 2026
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#colearthurriley, #livingmygratitude, #mirabelosler, #noticelife, #readgoodbooks, #toyouthisday, #writelife
This past week I began to write outdismalkinds of thoughtsI’d been hit quite hard by vertigothe dizziest sort of feelinglike liquid clouds had filled my earsand I had stumbled upon rolling seaswondering if maybe I had forgotten my allergy pillbut…
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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
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
April 26, 2025
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#attheheart, #inthiswritersgarden, #likelove, #readgoodbooks, #toads, #toyouthisday, #wisteria, #writelife
When I read good writersor should I say, in my humble opinionas who’s to decide,because I tend to read a lot ofnon-fiction –writers who feel as if weare in a kindconversationthey tend to make me feellike Ishould like to writenot…
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Tamara Willems
November 20, 2024
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#emmetttill, #mississippi, #readgoodbooks, #thebarn, #toyouthisday, #truthtolight, #wrightthompson, #writelife
On Sunday night I shook myself awakecertain I could hear my old fella,our dear dog Tedbarking his little yelp from downstairsin later years, he did this bark-cry for companywhen he could no longer climb the stairsstarting to rise, I threw…
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Tamara Willems
September 6, 2024
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#barrywhite, #inawritersgarden, #katebowler, #readgoodbooks, #september, #septembermorn, #toyouthisday, #writelife
This morning lovely husband isup early, wee hours one might say,and I half-consciously listenfor his going in the darkness he comes quietlyand bends, to kiss me good-byesandback to sleepin kindness the dog lifts the blankets with his snoutsnuggles into the…
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Tamara Willems
February 5, 2024
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#applesonawindowsill, #artandartist, #artbookslife, #beautifulthings, #onmyshelf, #ordinarylife, #palimpsestpress, #photography, #readgoodbooks, #shawnalemay, #springsteen, #stilllife, #transactionswithbeauty
Well now, to have finished a booksuch as this a beautiful book aboutstill life and lifeinstill–ness days of pandemic and how it waswegot ourselvesthrough about photographywhat it is we may be looking ator forand what it is wesee about life,…
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Tamara Willems
August 27, 2023
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#augustfeels, #goldenrod, #inthiswritersgarden, #latesummer, #livinglovinglearning, #livingmygratitude, #openlikesky, #readgoodbooks, #toyouthisday
When the goldenrod begins to bloomand the hummingbird trafficincreasesthe sunmoves over just a little morein the skyand the sugar maples start boldly in toblushwhen yellow-jackets take a keen interestin each and every movementand apples begin a slightrosy-ing up one hesitates…
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