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End of life

2025 March 16th2021 February 8th

no matter which end-of-life decisions were made,
there are always regrets, there is always that guilt —
live parts of me holding onto memories of a dying you
dead parts of me holding onto living memories of you

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, decisions, emotions, grief, guilt, loss, melancholy, memories, poems, regret, terri guillemets

Middle ground

2025 March 16th2017 April 7th

Failure is not frailty.
Success never guarantees.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, failure, perspective, poems, quotes, success, terri guillemets

Angles

2025 March 17th2011 December 16th

The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. And we shine differently in the seasons of our lives.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, fifties, forties, midlife, quotes, revised, seasons, sun, terri guillemets, year

Simple but not empty

2025 March 16th2009 November 10th

The goal of life:  simple, but not empty.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, balance, life, perspective, popular, quotes, simplicity, terri guillemets

Kitty

2025 March 16th2007 October 27th

Paws carry heart and fur,
Whiskers and vibrato purr.

Terri Guillemets

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

Breathing & stuff

2025 March 16th2005 October 8th

Clutter smothers. Simplicity breathes.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, breathing, clutter, popular, quotes, simplicity, terri guillemets

Talking inside out

2025 March 16th2000 October 12th

Friends make you smile — best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.

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Categories Lunch Break Journal Tags -all posts-, friends, ha ha, laughter, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Giving is getting

2025 March 16th1993 January 27th

Give, and blessings boomerang back to you.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, blessings, gratitude, helping, kindness, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Little thriving without roots

2025 March 17th2010 March 8th

Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms

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Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, colors, dancing, flowers, gardens, green, life, love, nature, poems, popular, terri guillemets

Middle

2025 March 16th2018 August 18th

A headstone is just a bookmark in our unfinished lives.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, books, death, humans, life, loss, perspective, popular, quotes, self, spiritual, terri guillemets, time

Don’t cry, — rally!

2025 March 16th2009 September 16th

What is your life’s motto? Write one. And live by it. And revise it when life revises you.

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Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, life, quotes, self, terri guillemets

Stories of love

2025 March 16th1995 November 6th

In a new love, it’s easy to live for the moment because there is no past. The more past you accumulate, the harder it is not to live there — and that’s true whether it’s good or bad.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, love, past, quotes, relationships, terri guillemets

Kindling

2025 April 15th2009 January 5th

Every dawn relights my soul.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, gratitude, light, morning, quotes, sky, soul, sun, sunrise & sunset, terri guillemets
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