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Tickle me pink & atomic tangerine

2025 April 29th2016 January 15th

I can tell it’s probably not going to be much of a productive day when I spend ten minutes over morning coffee trying to match each color of the sunrise to its corresponding crayon.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, colors, crayons & coloring, imagination & creativity, inner child, quotes, reverie, sunrise & sunset, terri guillemets

Counterbalance

2025 May 3rd2016 October 17th

No matter how frustrating and scary everything else seems to be in this crazy world, at least there’s this:  it’s pumpkin pie season!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, autumn, food, pumpkins, quotes, seasons, society, sweets, terri guillemets

Aegrotum sanare

2025 July 11th2006 September 8th

Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, autumn, nature, quotes, summer, terri guillemets, weather

Gilt

2025 June 4th1990 July 10th

Can a good person be both a tree hugger and a book lover, when one has to be murdered to create the other?

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, books, environment, quotes, terri guillemets, trees

Reformulated

2025 September 17th2012 May 1st

Perhaps age is just youth
— old and improved!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, poems, quotes, terri guillemets, youth

Shadow-sweet

2025 October 7th2013 March 1st

If beer tastes too much of cheer,
well then it borders on porter.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Happy Hour Journal Tags -all posts-, alcohol, beer, ha ha, poems, quotes, terri guillemets

Morning routine

2025 July 11th2006 January 3rd

Breathe, thank, pray, rise, stretch, move, live!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, breathing, exercise & fitness, gratitude, life, morning, note to self, prayer, quotes, terri guillemets, wellness

Symptomatic

2025 July 11th2006 January 4th

A maltreated body will cry out in symptoms.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, body, health, medical, quotes, terri guillemets

Startup

2025 July 12th2004 January 12th

Spring stirs under silent snow.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, nature, outdoors, quotes, seasons, snow, spring, terri guillemets, weather, winter

Suffering in silence

2025 July 10th2024 March 19th

If you don’t know anyone who has it worse than you, trust this — you do. You just don’t know you do.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, note to self, people, perspective, quotes, terri guillemets

Summer saguaro

2025 October 9th2018 June 23rd

With fruity-fingered arms, I hug the sky.

saguaro

Terri Guillemets

Categories Walking Journal Tags -all posts-, arizona, desert, fruit, nature, picture, plants, quotes, terri guillemets

Overdoing it

2025 July 11th2006 November 2nd

Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, eating, health, quotes, society, stress, terri guillemets, weight gain, wordplay

Hazardous waste

2025 July 11th2006 July 7th

Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

Terri Guillemets

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