Tamara Willems
June 1, 2023
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#beingkindness, #ease, #friends, #hormones, #iamlove, #inthiswritersgarden, #kindnesscounts, #livingmygratitude, #overwhelm, #perfection, #toyouthisday
Yesterday morning, much to domuch tolook forward toI begin in tears I am feeling scared, a little overwhelmedfor many reasonsand I stillcannot breathe properly thanks to the combination ofallergies and covid,which really affectsmy sleephormones have hit, as they doend of…
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Tamara Willems
March 15, 2023
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#inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #lovingkindness, #readgoodbooks, #selfcare, #sunrise, #toyouthisday
This morning it’s the rising sunon the fenceand how outside my windoweverything is litin the brilliance ofgold the comfort one feelsin the simple highlightof acozy little birdhouseon the post this morning in the quietI travel deeper into a bookwhere the…
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Tamara Willems
February 5, 2023
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#chairbythewindow, #livingmygratitude, #lovesurrounds, #noticelife, #readgoodbooks, #toyouthisday, #wintrydulls, #writelife
I’ve been reading a terrific bookabout circumstance, homelessnessstrength, endurance andin the end, theone foot in front of the other kind ofwalkingalso, the healing nature ofnatureand of love as I read, I have felt myself to a muchmuchlesser degree, struggling alongthrough…
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Tamara Willems
October 16, 2022
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#birthdays, #falldays, #harvest, #imforthebirds, #inthekitchen, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #mindfulnotice, #toyouthisday
Yesterday,in the morning my husband makes a lovely potof soup and another pot of pasta saucefrom the gifts of a generous harvestshared by a dear friend later in the day, my daughtermakes some lovely pink jam from the quinceshe has…
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Tamara Willems
August 19, 2022
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#birdsandthebees, #halfmoon, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #lovetosurroundyou, #rabbits, #toyouthisday
Mostly I wanted to tell you about the monarchshow every time we step outinto the front gardentheyappear and how it always feels likethe most honourablevisitto us, asendangered as now they are and also about the rabbitthat came into view last…
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Tamara Willems
August 3, 2022
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#growlesslawn, #inthiswritersgarden, #livingmygratitude, #measaflower, #mindyourown, #naturenurtures, #rewilding, #thebirdsandthebees
On the morning of a day expected to beheating upsevere storms in the forecastI sit by the pondin a lovely light breezea peaceable smile, dogs at my feetwatching a monarch flutterand the oriolesin the trumpet vine, attracted to thesweetnessof bold…
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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
May 14, 2021
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#livingmygratitude, #motherland, #myplaceintheworld, #readgoodbooks, #sunshineonmyshoulders, #toyouthisday
A Friday with copious amounts of sunshine has ME written all over it I don’t happen to work on Fridays, and I in my infinite wisdom have declared this the day of the week when, if it can at all be helped… I do not do I do…
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Tamara Willems
March 10, 2021
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#abnormallyspeaking, #justbeyounoexcussesrequired, #livingmygratitude, #toyouthisday, #whatif
What if, you rarely read fiction didn’t ever pay much attention to the best seller list preferred a good deep dive into biography or learning something new what if you didn’t much do netflix or really even which of those buttons to push didn’t quite understand the binge part of anything much preferred a good…
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Tamara Willems
December 11, 2020
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#andiloveyouso, #livingmygratitude, #onesmallthing, #touchtheworld
A morning walk of gratitude in the garden,I notice the last of my roseslies face down in the dirt, a little bit frozenin time… last night I sit down to dinner, and think how very fortunate I am to have a…
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