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Personal Journal

Glow, shine, reflect

2025 March 12th2019 October 13th

Moonlight is a beautiful and comforting reminder that the sun is still out there somewhere.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, hope, light, moon, nature, night, night sky, perspective, popular, quotes, sky, sun, terri guillemets

Losing count

2025 March 16th2020 May 16th

Damnit!  I  binged
again  II day
IV  life was hard
and so  I
VIII  my stress away.
O why do  I  so  of X  gorge?
Since turning  XL
I’ve been extra large.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, eating, favorites, food, forties, ha ha, health, math & numbers, midlife, perimenopause, poems, popular, silly, stress, terri guillemets, wordplay

Inflame

2025 March 17th2023 July 22nd

the world we abuse
roasting us like marshmallows
in a fire we lit

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, climate change, environment, favorites, heat wave, humans, poems, popular, senryu, terri guillemets, weather

Ever finding

2025 March 16th2005 October 19th

Always remember lost, so that you don’t take for granted found.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, favorites, gratitude, infj, memories, mind, perspective, popular, quotes, stress, terri guillemets

Why we can’t let go

2025 September 5th2019 November 5th

Regret is the glue that makes grief stick around for a lifetime.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, favorites, grief, letting go, loss, melancholy, memories, popular, quotes, regret, terri guillemets

Pain & struggle

2025 March 16th1999 January 12th

We can’t always see the scatters and tatters of a broken heart. Kindness is due to all fellow beings — we never know the invisible hurts they’re enduring.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, favorites, kindness, pain, 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

Fortunate misfortunes

2025 March 16th1997 July 11th

Death bumps into life many times as just a passerby — says excuse me then goes on his way.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, favorites, life, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Self-conviction

2025 March 22nd2024 April 28th

when you live too hard
forty is a warning
fifty, penalty

Terri Guillemets

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

Soiled

2025 March 17th2003 April 22nd

If organic is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, food, fruit, health, popular, quotes, society, terri guillemets, veggies & greens, words

Fragile

2025 April 28th2016 January 16th

Grief is looking up
to see Never
at your window —
rapping on the pane
of your heart —

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, favorites, grief, heart, loss, pain, poems, terri guillemets, wordplay

Depths

2025 March 16th1998 July 26th

Grief is a haunted lake that’s all too easy to drown in.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, grief, quotes, terri guillemets

Run for it!

2025 March 16th1997 November 8th

Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, dreams, favorites, passion, popular, quotes, self, spirit, success, terri guillemets, work hard
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