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Ruffled

2025 March 16th2005 October 10th

Frustration is anger caged in impatience.

Terri Guillemets

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

Feelers

2025 March 16th1995 June 10th

The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal.

Terri Guillemets

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

Weathering it

2025 March 17th2016 September 22nd

Grief cries and life shines on — and hope paints a rainbow.

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Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, emotions, grief, hope, life, light, popular, quotes, rainbows, sun, terri guillemets, weather

History & destiny

2025 March 16th2005 February 28th

The past can’t see you, but the future is listening.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Scrap Papers Tags -all posts-, favorites, future, past, perspective, philosophical, popular, quotes, self, terri guillemets, time

Everywhichway

2025 March 16th2006 January 14th

Sometimes I feel like I’m going nowhere, in opposite directions.

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

Playground

2025 March 16th2016 March 13th

We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never leave the playground of our hearts.

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Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, favorites, inner child, memories, play, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, youth

Very verdant vernal vessels

2025 March 16th2008 March 20th

The energy of the earth flows through the veins of springtime.

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Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, earth, energy, green, nature, popular, quotes, seasons, spring, terri guillemets

Porch swing thoughts

2025 March 17th2006 January 22nd

A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden.

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Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, blue, clouds, colors, quotes, sky, terri guillemets

Reflecting in the night

2025 March 16th2009 April 9th

My wrinkles are a playground of happy memories.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, inner child, memories, play, quotes, terri guillemets

Emotion sickness

2025 March 16th2007 June 11th

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, emotions, favorites, health, medical, mind, quotes, terri guillemets

Motherly perseverance

2025 April 14th1991 February 24th

Mother Nature is the ultimate truth of the show must go on.

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Aging inside & out

2025 March 16th2014 May 4th

The years pile up and hide under a new exterior.

Terri Guillemets

blackout poetry created from Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Categories Found Poetry Tags -all posts-, age & aging, altered prose, blackout poetry, favorites, fifties, forties, found poetry, midlife, nathaniel hawthorne, perimenopause, quotes, remix lit, terri guillemets

War paint

2025 April 1st2009 November 5th

We paint our lives with passion and peace, with love and laughter — to cover the pain and scars, the bitterness and tears.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, crying, emotions, laughter, life, love, pain, passion, quotes, scars, self, terri guillemets, therapy
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