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Inner light

2025 March 16th2006 September 7th

If you keep a sunny attitude, you will glow like a rainbow when life gets stormy.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, life, light, popular, quotes, rainbows, storms, stress, sun, terri guillemets

Deciduous

2025 September 17th2023 December 15th

just like trees
my life is a mix—
seasonal change
and evergreen

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, change, colors, favorites, fifties, green, leaves, metaphor, midlife, nature, poems, seasons, self, terri guillemets, transformation, trees

Venules

2025 March 16th1989 October 21st

Passion does not study anatomy in books.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, passion, quotes, terri guillemets

Cry it out

2025 March 25th2021 February 26th

When you allow the tears to flow out, you’re allowing relief and hope and faith and all sorts of good things to come in.

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Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, crying, emotions, faith, hope, letting go, melancholy, quotes, terri guillemets

Alone in the city

2025 May 7th2024 March 26th

my heart is dying
for this gambel’s quail crying
lovesick for a mate

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, animals, arizona, birds, birds of arizona, empath, gambel's quail, nature, outdoors, phoenix, poems, senryu, sounds, spring, terri guillemets

It’s staggering

2025 March 16th1988 December 12th

Evolution:  that last step was a doozy!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, ha ha, humans, quotes, science, terri guillemets

Looking forward

2025 November 22nd2010 January 10th

If winter wrote an autobiography, it would be mostly about the spring.

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

Inferno

2025 March 20th2022 November 28th

menopause is dry
as wood chips but it’s kindling
for warm winter fires

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, perimenopause, poems, senryu, terri guillemets

From the library to the park

2025 March 16th1993 April 3rd

Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, books, food, happiness, infj, nature, poetry: about, quotes, terri guillemets, trees

Weary

2025 April 4th1999 February 15th

“When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”

—Antonio Porchia (1886–1968), Voces, 1943–1966, translated from the Spanish by W. S. Merwin (1927–2019), 1968

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1960s, antonio porchia, collected, hsp, infj, quoted, quotes, w.s. merwin

Slipping

2025 March 16th2016 February 25th

one by one the trees they fall
and before you know it, the forest

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, metaphor, poems, terri guillemets

Glorious

2025 March 31st2011 January 3rd

imagine how many glorious winters and springs
the stars from their celestial perches have seen—

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, earth, nature, night sky, perspective, poems, quotes, seasons, sky, spring, stars, terri guillemets, winter

Hard life, good life

2025 March 16th2009 September 16th

Life can be hard, but if you’ve got somebody to love — Yay!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, blessings, family, gratitude, life, love, quotes, relationships, terri guillemets
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