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blessings

Waking to a newer than new day

2025 March 16th2007 November 17th

Each morning begins with the triumph and celebration of waking to a new day and the blessing of being able to get out of bed. What better way to start the day than with a success like that?

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, blessings, gratitude, health, morning, popular, quotes, success, terri guillemets, wellness

Beary much

2025 March 16th1996 April 18th

There’s nothing like a mama-hug.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Correspondence Tags -all posts-, blessings, family, favorites, hugs, mothers, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, touch

Ill & well

2025 March 16th2009 November 25th

Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, blessings, favorites, gratitude, happiness, popular, quotes, rainbows, self, simplicity, smiles, terri guillemets, wellness

Whole body, whole spirit

2025 March 16th2019 January 12th

We thank
on our knees
with folded hands
for full bellies
and fuller hearts

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, blessings, body, favorites, gratitude, heart, poems, popular, prayer, spirit, terri guillemets

Stop to smell the goodness

2025 March 16th2005 February 26th

Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, blessings, favorites, flowers, gratitude, life, note to self, popular, quotes, stress, terri guillemets

Counting blessings

2025 April 3rd2016 December 29th

You can’t count the bad things that happen. They don’t count against life. They are life. Only count the good things. Let every blessing strengthen you.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, blessings, favorites, gratitude, letting go, life, note to self, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Giving is getting

2025 March 16th1993 January 27th

Give, and blessings boomerang back to you.

Terri Guillemets

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

The real

2025 March 16th2007 March 3rd

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.

Terri Guillemets

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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

Waste away

2025 April 14th2025 April 2nd


Saw this trash bin today. Call me crazy but not only does it look kinda pretty, it also seems to suggest many metaphors for the past fifteen years.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Photography and Art Tags -all posts-, attitude, beauty, blessings, emotions, enshittification, environment, flowers, life, metaphor, perspective, phoenix, picture, politics, social issues, society, terri guillemets

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