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Tough as concrete

2025 March 16th2009 May 2nd

Each negative experience hardens us a little more to life. Some of us are tough as concrete. But try to leave yourself a few cracks, so that love and flowers can grow through.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, favorites, quotes, stress, terri guillemets

None excluded

2025 March 16th2019 January 12th

Prayer is for the grateful and for the grateful-to-be.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, favorites, gratitude, popular, prayer, quotes, terri guillemets

Speaking of spring

2025 March 16th2007 February 26th

Spring translates earth’s happiness into colorful flowers.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, earth, flowers, happiness, nature, outdoors, popular, quotes, seasons, spring, terri guillemets

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

Foggy

2025 March 16th2009 September 17th

Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, perspective, quotes, tea, 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

Cold is relative

2025 March 16th2018 October 21st

When you’re shivering with loss, let love keep you warm with memories.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Writer's Journal Tags -all posts-, death, grief, loss, love, memories, popular, quotes, 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

Woodard’s wisdom

2025 April 4th2024 April 25th

“The cure… resign as general manager of the universe.”

—Rev. Jack Woodard, 1961

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1960s, attitude, collected, inspirational, jack woodard, letting go, motivational, quoted, quotes

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

Wingèd workaholic

2025 July 11th2006 October 1st
  yellow-striped bee
  what do you see
  inside perfumed flowers?

  soul or sex or color
  food & imminent honey
  or just a job to be done?

  intoxicating pollen
  fragrant petals
  jewels of every hue?

  is it that what’s wild for us
  is just cubicle walls to you?


Terri Guillemets

 
Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, bees, flowers, insects, nature, perspective, poems, senses, terri guillemets
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