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Personal Journal

Juxtaposing

2025 March 16th2008 December 25th

Spring blossoms flowers
Winter blossoms quietude

Terri Guillemets

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.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, letting go, popular, prayer, quotes, terri guillemets

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?

Terri Guillemets

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

Terri Guillemets

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.

Terri Guillemets

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.

Terri Guillemets

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

Mist

2025 March 16th2002 October 16th

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

Terri Guillemets

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

Big city night

2025 March 19th2023 July 29th

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

Terri Guillemets

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

Seeing $tars

2025 April 15th2023 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, 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

@Risk

2025 April 18th1995 December 29th

Life is like running with scissors
naked through freezing blizzards

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, favorites, ha ha, life, poems, silly, terri guillemets

Pitch

2025 March 16th2006 March 31st

Night
— the quiet of solitude
— the silence of loneliness

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, night, poems, silence, solitude, terri guillemets
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