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Reformulated

2025 September 17th2012 May 1st

Perhaps age is just youth
— old and improved!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, poems, quotes, terri guillemets, youth

Poem of the April Palo Verde

2025 September 5th2012 April 26th


Yellow.
Freaking.
Everywhere.

Terri Guillemets

palo verde tree

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, april, arizona, colors, desert, ha ha, nature, phoenix, picture, plants, poems, seasons, spring, terri guillemets, trees, yellow

Timekeeper

2025 September 18th2012 April 11th

Grief is historian of the heart.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, grief, heart, memories, past, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Connections

2025 March 16th2012 April 6th

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, death, favorites, grief, heart, loss, love, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Wrought

2025 September 17th2012 March 31st

Grief is processing what’s been taken from you, what’s still within you, and all the blessings and memories left behind by the one you’re grieving.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, blessings, emotions, grief, loss, memories, quotes, self, terri guillemets

Remains

2025 September 17th2012 March 31st

Healing from grief is allowing the courage and purpose within you and the love someone else left you, to merge and create a new sense of being.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, courage, grief, healing, loss, love, purpose, quotes, self, terri guillemets, transformation

Tempest

2025 September 17th2012 March 18th

If your storm has lightning and rainbows —
Be glad, be glad.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, gratitude, lightning, metaphor, perspective, poems, quotes, rainbows, storms, terri guillemets

Imperceptible

2025 September 17th2012 March 9th

Under the giving snow blossoms a daring spring.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, flowers, nature, quotes, seasons, snow, spring, terri guillemets, winter

Victorious

2025 March 16th2012 January 14th

This smile isn’t a lack of pain. It’s a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, emotions, pain, quotes, smiles, terri guillemets

Lion’s outlook

2025 April 5th2012 January 11th

“I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.”

—Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, 1968

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1960s, attitude, collected, inspirational, note to self, og mandino, quoted, quotes

Nerve-inferno

2025 September 17th2012 January 7th

Fear is advance panic of unexpected life.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, fear, quotes, terri guillemets

Assault

2025 July 5th2012 January 6th

help please police help
everywhere i go
chocolate’s being a’salted!

Terri Guillemets

But seriously. Knock it off. Leave some of it plain for those of us who prefer our chocolate without condiments!

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, chocolate, current events, eyeroll, first world problems, food, poems, senryu, silly, sweets, terri guillemets

Welcome, Winter

2025 March 16th2011 December 22nd

Welcome, Winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.

Terri Guillemets

P.S.  Thank you to all who let me know about King Features Syndicate and USA Today using this for their “Cryptoquote” on January 5th. —tg, 2024

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, morning, nature, popular, quotes, seasons, terri guillemets, weather, winter
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