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In pieces

2025 March 16th1995 January 12th

The emotions are part of the wound.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, body, emotions, favorites, memories, mind, perspective, popular, quotes, self, terri guillemets

Tenacious

2025 March 16th1996 February 18th

Reality is irritatingly obstinate
and so very gosh darn’d sticky!

Terri Guillemets

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Juxtaposing

2025 March 16th2008 December 25th

Spring blossoms flowers
Winter blossoms quietude

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, flowers, nature, poems, quotes, seasons, silence, spring, terri guillemets, winter

Knees down, heart open, head up

2025 September 5th2021 February 25th

Sometimes, praying is releasing our pent-up, used-up life and making room in ourselves for new life.

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Away

2025 March 16th2019 January 11th

Sometimes what gets to you most isn’t the large holes that get ripped from your heart but the fraying of its edges — when what held you together isn’t anymore.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, heart, melancholy, quotes, self, terri guillemets

Bartleby

2025 March 16th1998 January 13th

How can something bother you if you won’t let it?

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, favorites, letting go, note to self, perspective, popular, quotes, self, stress, terri guillemets

End of the race

2025 April 1st2025 April 1st

drivers of  “progress”
steering us toward a cliff
at capital velocity

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, business, climate change, curmudgeonesque, current events, enshittification, environment, money, poems, politics, society, stress, technology, terri guillemets, wordplay

Pain gain

2025 March 16th2000 February 6th

Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, health, medical, pain, quotes, terri guillemets

Projected

2025 March 31st2002 January 12th

Many of my one-hour projects take half an hour to start and several years to finish.

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Mist

2025 March 16th2002 October 16th

I’ve only yet to see the apparition of enlightenment, and it always slips past in my periphery.

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Big city night

2026 May 19th2023 July 29th

oh my gosh is that a star
in bright city sky?
nope! police helicopter

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, environment, light pollution, night, night sky, phoenix, poems, senryu, sky, society, solastalgia, stars, terri guillemets

Seeing $tars

2026 May 19th2023 July 29th

Star!
    Nope, rocket.
Star?
    Nope, police helicopter.
Star!
    Nope, corporate satellite.
Star?
    Nope, airplane.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, business, curmudgeonesque, enshittification, environment, light pollution, money, night sky, poems, society, solastalgia, technology, terri guillemets

Transform

2025 March 16th2016 September 23rd

Loss — the great redefiner of life.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, grief, life, loss, perspective, quotes, terri guillemets
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