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Ask yourself

2025 March 23rd2014 October 16th

Occasionally ask, “What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?”

—Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, action, collected, goals, inspirational, life, motivational, quoted, quotes, robert brault

Sweet sleep

2025 March 16th2009 June 11th

A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, food, ha ha, popular, quotes, sleep, sweets, terri guillemets

Squashed

2025 March 26th2021 March 14th

cancel culture is
political correctness
overcorrecting

Terri Guillemets

Categories Lunch Break Journal Tags -all posts-, poems, political correctness, senryu, society, terri guillemets

Sixty-nine degrees

2025 March 16th2022 October 23rd

bliss runs wild with the breeze today—
this moment a delicious autumn cake
frosted with october’s dulcet bouquet—
worries let serenity breathe and play
while sweet nature gladness partakes

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, autumn, food, nature, october, outdoors, poems, seasons, sweets, terri guillemets

Antennae

2025 March 16th1994 June 11th

Read instead of watch TV?
Now there’s a novel idea!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, books, poems, quotes, reading, technology, terri guillemets, wordplay

Seamless

2025 March 16th2017 March 19th

the vibrant green-yellow-pink blossom-life of spring
the watery-blue radiant sunshine-breath of summer
the metallic-earth-toned glowing-decay of autumn
the grey-white holly-festive slow-motion of winter

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, autumn, blue, colors, gray, green, nature, pink, poems, seasons, spring, summer, terri guillemets, winter, year, yellow

Campfire

2025 March 16th1995 August 12th

campfire flames kiss the night
stars in distant skies blaze bright
ghost story whispers all affright
rustling sounds just out of sight

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, ghosts & supernatural, nature, night sky, outdoors, poems, senses, stars, stories & storytelling, terri guillemets

Illusions

2025 March 16th1997 February 17th

Religion is faith in anything other than ourselves.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Schoolwork Tags -all posts-, humans, quotes, society, terri guillemets

Spring’s sure well-done over, at 100°

2025 September 5th2019 April 25th

Poetic words flow much better in pleasant climes—
Springtime and autumn, more friendly for rhymes
Winter’s good too, we self-reflect well in cold times
But blazing summer melts words & numbs minds!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, arizona, desert, ha ha, mind, nature, phoenix, poems, seasons, silly, summer, sun, terri guillemets, weather, writing

Revenant

2025 March 17th2009 May 25th

O! how many ghosts in a wound of war.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, emotions, history, memories, mind, quotes, stress, terri guillemets

Insomniacaholic

2025 April 11th1989 January 17th

I’m an insomniacaholic
if there is such a thing
well, I know there is —
I am one, and their king!

Terri Guillemets
journal, age fifteen

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, ha ha, insomnia, poems, silly, sleep, terri guillemets

Sweet life

2025 March 16th2023 September 16th

age split a cherry
midlife is the pit
sweet and ripe surround

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, food, forties, fruit, metaphor, midlife, poems, senryu, terri guillemets, youth

Awake & alone

2025 March 16th2018 June 7th

Night is filled with our loudest fears and a silent courage.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, courage, fear, infj, mind, night, popular, quotes, self, silence, solitude, terri guillemets
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