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Personal Journal

At any time

2026 May 18th2000 May 31st

we are every moment of life
living in crosshairs of death

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, life, poems, quotes, revised, terri guillemets

Unhoard

2025 March 16th2002 December 25th

Once you’ve whittled down to spiritual essentials, the physical decluttering comes naturally.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, clutter, mind, popular, quotes, simplicity, spirit, terri guillemets

Fusion

2025 March 16th2003 June 11th

Sometimes we can’t let go of the pain because we think it’s the only thing holding us together.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, emotions, favorites, letting go, melancholy, pain, popular, quotes, revised, terri guillemets

In progress

2025 March 16th1997 March 8th

Be a student of life and a lifelong student.

Terri Guillemets

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

Release

2025 March 16th2023 November 24th

the wisdom of  age
takes root to blossom
in crevices of the brain
emptied by letting go

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, brain, emotions, favorites, fifties, letting go, midlife, mind, perspective, poems, popular, self, terri guillemets, wisdom

Ossifight

2025 March 16th2021 March 3rd

Somehow, I got old
before really learning to be young
the old in my bones is calcified
the young in my soul is still growing

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, forties, inner child, midlife, poems, terri guillemets

End of life

2025 March 16th2021 February 8th

no matter which end-of-life decisions were made,
there are always regrets, there is always that guilt —
live parts of me holding onto memories of a dying you
dead parts of me holding onto living memories of you

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, decisions, emotions, grief, guilt, loss, melancholy, memories, poems, regret, terri guillemets

Simple but not empty

2025 March 16th2009 November 10th

The goal of life:  simple, but not empty.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, balance, life, perspective, popular, quotes, simplicity, terri guillemets

Breathing & stuff

2025 March 16th2005 October 8th

Clutter smothers. Simplicity breathes.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, breathing, clutter, popular, quotes, simplicity, terri guillemets

Giving is getting

2025 March 16th1993 January 27th

Give, and blessings boomerang back to you.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, blessings, gratitude, helping, kindness, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Middle

2025 March 16th2018 August 18th

A headstone is just a bookmark in our unfinished lives.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, books, death, humans, life, loss, perspective, popular, quotes, self, spiritual, terri guillemets, time

Stories of love

2025 March 16th1995 November 6th

In a new love, it’s easy to live for the moment because there is no past. The more past you accumulate, the harder it is not to live there — and that’s true whether it’s good or bad.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, love, past, quotes, relationships, terri guillemets

Kindling

2025 April 15th2009 January 5th

Every dawn relights my soul.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, gratitude, light, morning, quotes, sky, soul, sun, sunrise & sunset, terri guillemets
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