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 19, 2025
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#falldays, #fallleaves, #forthebirds, #inthiswritersgarden, #leaves, #naturenurtures, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Feel a bit out of sorts when days pile upand one hasn’t made the timefor writingI have started and stopped many times,yet as schedules continue tochangeI haven’t done much about getting anythingdown or I suppose there is that thing withcertain…
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Tamara Willems
November 9, 2025
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#fallwinter, #feedthebirds, #inthiswritersgarden, #lovingkindness, #november, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Yesterday morning,I go out to fill the bird feedersand marvel at just how lovely fallcan bein all the changing of shadeseverywhere you look is colourand how beautifulthe leaveson the ground busying myself with laundry and suchthe next time I look…
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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
October 19, 2025
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#easylikesundaymorning, #inthiswritersgarden, #movingon, #movingout, #octoberfeels, #rainyday, #spaces, #thingswecarry, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Today, it’s just a perfect fall day,wet andsoggythe colours outside are stillbrilliantrain, almost alwaysisneededand it’s Sunday… so it suits this morning, quiet startcoffee with my loveand conversation of things to comenew chapters unfoldingin real time we talk this morning aboutchanges…
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Tamara Willems
October 4, 2025
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#falldays, #inthiswritersgarden, #neighbours, #seasonschange, #time, #toyouthisday
This week marked thirty yearsthat we have beenin our houseand always this day feels just likelove to meclearly, I can remember coming to look at itfrom our first tiny, greenhouseto this lovely, large, older charactertwo small boys in towneeding to…
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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
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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