Tamara Willems
July 12, 2023
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#friendship, #inthiswritersgarden, #loveandloss, #measaflower, #sayitoutloud, #toberemembered, #toyouthisday, #writelife
This morning the sky begins inbluebut rather quickly is blanketedin the fluffy white-nessof a slightly cooler but,neverthelessbeautiful day the garden, in its summer gloryhas received so much rain latelyit looks to be sittinglush andlow due to a falling tree last…
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Tamara Willems
May 21, 2023
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#breatheyourwaythrough, #freetobeme, #happyrecluse, #inthiswritersgarden, #socialanxiety, #toyouthisday, #writelife
My current reading andmightread nextpile where I have not spent nearly enough timewith the first book, Surrenderand it really is so very goodbut also, where I am always looking forwardto thenextone and ways in which the two of thesefirst two…
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Tamara Willems
May 3, 2023
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#imforthebirds, #inthiswritersgarden, #naturenurtures, #robins, #springshowers, #toyouthisday, #writelife
This morning,I’m thinking about the transitionfromsoup to saladthen back againspring weather being what it isanother cool wet startgrey clouds with small surprising breaksof brightlight first thing the only digits that will moveon sore handsarethumbseverything else is curled in tight eventually…
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Tamara Willems
February 22, 2023
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#anxiety, #beingkindness, #bewell, #expand, #howwelisten, #kindness, #toyouthisday, #writelife
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.~ Karl A. Menninger The nature…
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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
January 29, 2023
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#breathedeep, #freshair, #inmyjanuarygarden, #morning, #noticelife, #sinusitis, #tobegin, #toyouthisday, #writelife
It feels a great luxury to fully breathe indeeplyto step outside, the morning still darklight provided from the damp pilingof snowreflecting I guess, the colourof theskycurrent precipitation spits like rainbut the air feels fresh,so I breathe it in, as best…
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Tamara Willems
December 4, 2022
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#justintheview, #morning, #mustloveolddogs, #toyouthisday, #upbeforethedawn, #writelife
small bits of writing from the past few days Ways in whichIcould love youbetter… ~~~~~~ this morning I am up much before the sunas my wandering brain has wellbegun thinking of thingsto be done (tis the season and all that)it…
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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
May 26, 2021
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#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…
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Tamara Willems
November 29, 2019
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#aroseisaroseisarose, #getoutofyourheadandintoyourheart, #livinggratitude, #toyouthisday, #writelife, #youarelove
This morning finds me somewhat frustrated by my husband’s,closed off quiet-ish habit of internalizing worry(as men do) which leaves one feeling a little outside looking in, unable to hear the presentconversationand offer softening reason and supporta very Venus and Mars…
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