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Breathlessly beautiful

2025 May 7th2015 October 17th

Autumn breathes in golden sunshine and breathes out a frosty chill.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, autumn, quotes, seasons, sun, terri guillemets, weather, winter

Measure not surrender

2025 November 22nd2010 April 20th

Listen to the voice of doubt only if it has something insightful to say, not if it’s just spouting fear.

Terri Guillemets

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

Give & take

2025 April 17th1994 August 30th

I was so in the present moment the past was no longer part of me.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Short Stories Tags -all posts-, live now, past, quotes, terri guillemets, time

Stride

2025 April 17th1997 November 6th

Walking gets the body moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Walking Journal Tags -all posts-, exercise & fitness, quotes, terri guillemets, walking

Viewpoint

2025 November 23rd2011 May 1st

Pray on the shadowy hillside of hardship and on the sunny hillside of happiness.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, happiness, prayer, quotes, terri guillemets

Measureless

2025 April 19th1998 April 16th

Facts and figures are never the whole story.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Schoolwork Tags -all posts-, perspective, quotes, terri guillemets

Shadows long after light is gone

2025 April 23rd2020 December 27th

end of life decisions
seep grieving guilt
into every crack
of broken hearts—
life is the always
ultimate sacredness
and to play god
feels sacrilegious—
even the right decision
reverberates as wrong

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, death, decisions, guilt, poems, terri guillemets

Out of the blue

2025 April 17th1994 March 5th

Birds are beautiful and amazing creatures, until you walk underneath one who had a big lunch.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, birds, ha ha, quotes, terri guillemets

Between

2026 February 13th2026 February 13th

overcast spring day
musing under olive tree
on top of the world

Terri Guillemets

Categories Haiku Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, haiku, happiness, poems, senryu, spring, terri guillemets, trees, weather, wordplay

Alone

2025 April 15th1992 February 26th

For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, hsp, infj, quotes, social anxiety, solitude, terri guillemets

I got tested

2025 April 14th1992 February 28th

Yep, I’m an INFJ — an antisocial butterfly and the most hugging, loving people-hater you’ll ever meet.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Schoolwork Tags -all posts-, infj, quotes, terri guillemets

Metre

2025 April 28th2016 February 11th

do not watch too closely
cogs in the wheel of time —
observe their passing as
the rhythm of a poem —
not clicks of the abacus

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, poems, terri guillemets, time

Discomforts

2025 April 16th1997 December 9th

We are creatures trapped in culture.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, humans, quotes, society, terri guillemets
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