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Feel it, live it

2025 March 11th2014 September 11th

If you feel beautiful, then you are. Even if you don’t, you still are.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Writer's Journal Tags -all posts-, beauty, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Of letting be

2025 March 16th2014 September 4th

It’s not all about healing yourself — it’s just as importantly about letting yourself heal.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, body, healing, health, letting go, mind, note to self, quotes, terri guillemets, wellness

Stages of Papago Orange Blossom

2025 November 24th2014 August 1st

segmented,
      fermented,
            demented.

Terri Guillemets

entry in my beer tasting journal for Huss Brewing Co.’s Papago Orange Blossom, a delicious Arizona vanilla mandarin wheat ale

Categories Happy Hour Journal Tags -all posts-, alcohol, arizona, beer, food, fruit, ha ha, poems, silly, terri guillemets

P & L

2025 May 11th2014 June 12th

with each passing year
spirit becomes more asset
body, liability

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, fifties, forties, midlife, mind, poems, spirit, terri guillemets, wisdom

Endless knowledge

2025 March 16th2014 May 8th

the miracle of a library card
to study, oh, you know,
fill in the blank — anything

Terri Guillemets

blackout poetry created from Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996

Categories Found Poetry Tags -all posts-, altered prose, blackout poetry, books, found poetry, libraries, poems, remix lit, terri guillemets

Alternate ending

2025 March 13th2014 May 4th

Hester unadulterated. The end. –tg

“Hester unadulterated. The end.”

Terri Guillemets

altered prose – found poetry, created from Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Categories Found Poetry Tags -all posts-, altered prose, blackout poetry, book art, books, favorites, found poetry, ha ha, literature, nathaniel hawthorne, picture, popular, remix lit, silly, terri guillemets, wordplay

Aging inside & out

2025 March 16th2014 May 4th

The years pile up and hide under a new exterior.

Terri Guillemets

blackout poetry created from Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Categories Found Poetry Tags -all posts-, age & aging, altered prose, blackout poetry, favorites, fifties, forties, found poetry, midlife, nathaniel hawthorne, perimenopause, quotes, remix lit, terri guillemets

20/20

2025 May 11th2014 April 25th

Hindsight —
      a.k.a.
      I was a fool,
      such a fool!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, life, mistakes, poems, quotes, terri guillemets, wisdom

Inescapable

2025 April 4th2014 April 25th

Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
      That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others’ pain,
      And perish in our own.

—Francis Thompson, from “Daisy,” 1892–1894

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1800s, adversity, collected, death, francis thompson, pain, poems, quoted

There are actually eight

2025 March 16th2014 April 5th

It’s a sin to waste chocolate.  It’s in the Bible.  Ghirardelli ®  3:17.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Happy Hour Journal Tags -all posts-, chocolate, food, ha ha, popular, quotes, silly, sweets, terri guillemets

Flat-screen

2025 July 5th2014 April 3rd

iOS seven
you killed skeuomorphism
texture has flatlined

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, enshittification, first world problems, ha ha, poems, senryu, technology, terri guillemets, wordplay

Spring out & in

2025 September 5th2014 March 27th

Spring:  the music of open windows.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, music, nature, popular, quotes, seasons, sounds, spring, terri guillemets, weather, windows

Palm’s psalm

2025 March 11th2014 March 26th

Wind tries to show Tree how to run wild.
      Tree:  “I cannot leave this place.”
      Wind:  “Then let’s dance.”

Terri Guillemets

Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, dancing, favorites, letting go, nature, outdoors, perspective, plants, poems, popular, terri guillemets, trees, weather, wind & breeze
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