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Healing Journal

The chaos-harmony of life

2025 April 1st2002 December 12th

I swing like a kid
and fall like an adult;
cry tears of gratitude
and pray in smiles;
hug and love, and later
hide under the covers—
wildly and humbly living
from dawn to the stars,
and ever back again

Terri Guillemets

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Weathering it

2025 March 17th2016 September 22nd

Grief cries and life shines on — and hope paints a rainbow.

Terri Guillemets

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Playground

2025 March 16th2016 March 13th

We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never leave the playground of our hearts.

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Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, favorites, inner child, memories, play, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, youth

Reflecting in the night

2025 March 16th2009 April 9th

My wrinkles are a playground of happy memories.

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Nerve us!

2025 March 16th2005 January 11th

Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.

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Praying hands & feet

2025 March 16th2006 December 31st

It is of course possible to dance a prayer.

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Dreams & greens

2025 March 16th2011 July 3rd

For happy health, fuel yourself with dreams and greens.

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Memorials

2025 March 16th2009 January 1st

Scars are lessons, or victories, memorialized in flesh.

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Angles

2025 March 17th2011 December 16th

The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. And we shine differently in the seasons of our lives.

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Little thriving without roots

2025 March 17th2010 March 8th

Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms

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Don’t cry, — rally!

2025 March 16th2009 September 16th

What is your life’s motto? Write one. And live by it. And revise it when life revises you.

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Soaring

2025 March 16th2007 November 5th

Give your stress wings and let it fly away.

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A turning trial by fire

2025 September 5th1999 January 21st

Anger makes your life — and your body — off-key. All bitter emotions do.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, emotions, health, letting go, note to self, quotes, self, stress, terri guillemets
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