Tamara Willems
January 18, 2026
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#beherenow, #celebrate, #inthislight, #inthiswritersgarden, #lovelosslife, #noticelife, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Small pockets of bubbling Joyin the last few days,busy at work, in the morningas the sun is rising higher in the skysomething draws my eyes, and myattentionup to a wall of the greenhouse where perhapsI don’t oftengazeand this day I…
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Tamara Willems
January 3, 2026
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#bitsandpieces, #collage, #newyear, #noticelife, #toyouthisday, #writelife
It has become a kind of traditionin our homeon New Year’s Eve (as my husband was usually working)ketchup chips, cheezies, watch the movieValentine’s Dayand we,my daughter or daughters (depending on who’s home)and Iwe collagea beginning of the year, vision board…
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Tamara Willems
January 1, 2026
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#beingkindness, #loveandloss, #memoriesandmerit, #noticelife, #toyouthisday, #writelife
well then,I have just finished a fantastic reada beautiful gathering of correspondencebetween six sisters, spanning the twentieth century months longI have happily wandered alongin slowsnippetswith these wonderful witty, eccentric, womenmost enjoying every step contrary to what one might thinkknowing how…
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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
October 29, 2025
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#alwayslookingup, #begoodtoyou, #cedar, #falldays, #inthiswritersgarden, #noticelife, #openlikesky, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Last night at dinner,my first spoonful of tomato soupand soda crackersaw, looooook I say to himthe broken bit of cracker on my spoon a perfectly lovely heart the other day at work,it’s the time of year that the whitewash comes…
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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
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
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 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
June 4, 2025
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#calvinandhobbes, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #measaflower, #nothingdays, #noticelife, #toyouthisday
This morning my husbandis the first one out,actually I had already been out at four with the pupbut as this is a day offwe both, puppy and I happily snuggled back inhusband is greeted this morning, just outside the back…
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