Tamara Willems
April 1, 2022
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#handinmypocket, #iwritethewords, #pocketfullofwords, #toyouthisday, #wordslikelove
I carry words in my pocket like love and delight like wonder and like grace find it quite comforting to always know, exactly where to find them and like gratitude, now that one slips into my palm with a smooth silkiness that always feels as if it…
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Tamara Willems
March 18, 2022
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#earlybirds, #everydayordinary, #groovykindoflove, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #tobegin
There is great comfort in waking early beginning the day in a house still in slumber sitting with coffee and a book by the window where outside the day is just barely breaking last night’s beautiful worm moon bright against a still dark sky listen to the sounds…
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Tamara Willems
March 10, 2022
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(I started writing this on Wednesday, as a way to sort out the heaviness on my heart,last night my Uncle John’s life came to its end, and he is nowfree from pain, and resting in peace.) I wonder my friend,…
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Tamara Willems
February 25, 2022
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#asthoughlitfromwithin, #morningsun, #noticelife, #peacetofindyou, #toyouthisday, #waystosayiloveyou
Taking notice of the rise of the morning sun as it lights the bird feeder, just so making it appear as though someone has left a light on for comfort I could spend my time thinking up new ways to tell you I love you that…
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Tamara Willems
February 23, 2022
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#autumnpeltier, #elainebrown, #groundyourselfinlove, #inmygreatgratitude, #johnlewis, #listenup, #toyouthisday, #whatareyouthinkingabout, #writelife
Currently what I am reading is A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown one woman’s story of resistance and resilience of, for the most part, young disenfranchised inspired people coming up in the Black Panther organization while also last night revisiting the remarkable…
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Tamara Willems
February 19, 2022
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#beginwithyou, #beingpeace, #inthiswritersgarden, #renewalinthesilence, #toyouthisday
As the beauty of the sparkly sunshine suddenly turns to a more colour- less kind of sky snowflakes increase in velocity and a cold brisk wind begins to nip I have just stopped for counsel with the morning dove the dove represents peace of the deepest kind, I…
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Tamara Willems
February 9, 2022
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#awanderinwords, #calculatingodds, #comeonpeacetrain, #expandingourcircle, #livinglove, #thenewmath, #toyouthisday
Maybe we did need to learn math, for a reason… as how then do we propose to care about the world that seems determined to set its sights upon the brutish, brash image of division where the much determined divisives differentiate themselves by louder than bravado multiplying volatility armoured in…
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Tamara Willems
February 4, 2022
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#mindfulness, #savouringmoments, #stanleytucci, #taste, #thoughtsonaday, #touchinggiants, #toyouthisday
This morning I look at the Isle of Lewis and the standing stones of Callanish where one legend has them as the remnants of giants turned to stone and I think of placing one’s palm just there and breathing this in I find myself a…
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Tamara Willems
February 2, 2022
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#beinglovingkindness, #itsgroundhogday, #readgoodbooks, #ripplesofloveandkindness, #totouchtheheartofanother, #toyouthisday
This morning, I am quiet, contented joy with the most incredible bout of loving kindness bubbling up inside (*slight alteration in moods may occur, which is why I am telling you here) this then, is how this sort of thing begins last week, I sent a…
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Tamara Willems
January 28, 2022
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#beingfrivolous, #beingpoetry, #howwesaveourselves, #inthiswritersgarden, #toyouthisday
When I am being frivolous as today, I spend my time looking at beautiful things, like sunshine on the snow, how it sparkles magically deceiving us into thinking how lovely it would be to put our footprints down never minding the ghastly windchill and how it might…
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