Tamara Willems
June 18, 2022
Uncategorized
#beingkindness, #cultivatelove, #inthegarden, #inthiswritersgarden, #judgement, #justmethinking, #measaflower, #shame, #shameloss, #toyouthisday, #whatyousow
This morning in the garden,I am thinking about how weharbour shame in our bodieshow we then come to coat ourselves with this shameas amour,how we righteously and continuously thrust it forthas shieldand wield it,fiercely and vigilantlyas swordand how in our…
Read more
Tamara Willems
January 15, 2022
Uncategorized
#beingkindness, #crueltobekind, #dulcettones, #lovemetender, #manifeellikeawoman, #thankyouforbeingafriend, #toyouthisday, #wartsandall
It’s like that you know, I will tell this friend it just comes every so often, and January well yes, there is that… I know, anxiety starts to act up, considers itself most important of thought churns things up in a constant motion makes for rather…
Read more
Tamara Willems
December 1, 2021
Uncategorized
#beingkindness, #decembersbreath, #gratefulliving, #imforthebirds, #inthequietofmygarden, #inthiswritersgarden, #toyouthisday
December’s arrival tiptoes softly in laying down quietly on your doorstep and calmly waits for you to notice… much difficulty sleeping of late, bothered by unruly sinus congestion has me slightly panicking in the night trying to breathe now this morning seems to have plugged up one ear ugh! also,…
Read more
Tamara Willems
November 27, 2021
Uncategorized
#beingkindness, #gobelove, #inthiswritersgarden, #measaflower, #thegifttobring, #tistheseason, #toyouthisday
My week began with the all too familiar internal toil of pushing through clouds trying hard not to destroy myself with chatter willingly drawing in, in gentle intentioned loving kindness words and familiar phrases to ease myself through and repeating the same for you end of week, my inbox fills…
Read more
Tamara Willems
November 10, 2021
Uncategorized
#beingkindness, #beinglove, #donotfeedthefears, #momentsoflight, #thebeatofmyheart, #whatareyouafraidof
I have what is known as a heart murmur, described to me as one valve smaller, and the need for the heart to pump a little bit more to get the blood through so essentially what I have is an extra heartbeat that…
Read more
Tamara Willems
August 18, 2021
Uncategorized
#beingkindness, #sayitoutloud, #thecomfortofknowing, #toyouthisday, #waysiloveyou
I’m wondering just now, if I have forgotten to tell you how very much I admire your strength and always how much you are willing to give in your own gentle kind of way I wondered if I had said to you lately how much I…
Read more
Tamara Willems
August 4, 2021
Uncategorized
#ahimsa, #beingkindness, #beingpeace, #giventorewild, #measaflower, #openlikesky, #thepathofmyexistence, #toyouthisday
We often have, my dear husband and I a difference of opinion in the garden and thank goodness really, as how boring would we be otherwise I have a great affection for the things that roam rather freely self-seed, grow up and through I happen to like things that…
Read more
Tamara Willems
May 26, 2021
Uncategorized
#beinggratitude, #beingkindness, #beinglove, #getupgoout, #laundrydaylove, #toyouthisday, #writelife
As I am about to begin, I almost always start with – this morning… where actually, I realize it is already afternoon morning having slipped away, while I was reading having once again sunken quiet deliciously into a fantastic new book thinking it best that I take…
Read more
Tamara Willems
April 24, 2021
Uncategorized
#beingkindness, #donotfeedthebear, #inthiswritersgarden, #intothewoods, #toyouthisday, #withease
It could happen that in the morning you have (not so unexpectedly) awoken the bear after a fitful sort of night sugar indulged night sweats and a sore neck it will stay with you, this bear carrying flashing signs of trauma and shame attaching them to your heels to drag behind, as if being…
Read more
Tamara Willems
March 26, 2021
Uncategorized
#abitofwallowing, #allowingforgrace, #beingkindness, #toyouthisday
(first thing, let me tell you right here today, I am annoyed knowing this if you feel inclined to read on it should be begun with a suitable furrowedscowl) I ask him, with a deep sigh Do you ever wonder about your own usefulness in…
Read more