My wrinkles are a playground of happy memories.
—Terri Guillemets
body
Clarity of breath
The wisest one-word sentence? Breathe.
—Terri Guillemets
Scraps
A scar is a memory from the scrapbook your body is keeping about you.
—Terri Guillemets
Memorials
Scars are lessons, or victories, memorialized in flesh.
—Terri Guillemets
Scars regard
A scar is a prayer of gratitude for that which remains.
—Terri Guillemets
Tune in
Many of us have become deaf to our own bodies, which is why we are
—Terri Guillemets
Well-becoming
Wellness is the art of healing before you’re sick.
—Terri Guillemets
Emotion sickness
The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.
—Terri Guillemets
Junk food curse
Why throw trash into the treasure-house of your body?
—Terri Guillemets
Meant-to’s
Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.
—Terri Guillemets
Don’t just sit there
If life is good, don’t just sit there — dance!
If life’s not so good — dance even more.
—Terri Guillemets
Move it
Too many of us have a skipping spirit but a sit-still body.
—Terri Guillemets
Aye aye, skipper!
When most people see an adult skipping they assume it must be on the way either to or from the asylum.
—Terri Guillemets
Symptoms, waiting for signs
I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie.
—Terri Guillemets
Sepulturæ
Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time.
—Terri Guillemets
“Time! where didst thou those years inter
Which I have seene decease?” —Wm. Habington
Proof of youth
Be thou not ashamed of lust —
desire was born in primal dust
it mingled with the seas of life
to make the mud we know as love
—Terri Guillemets
Our path
A morning walk starts us off on the right foot for the day.
—Terri Guillemets
Myelin
I love you with all my bones — the heart is too ephemeral.
—Terri Guillemets
In pieces
The emotions are part of the wound.
—Terri Guillemets
Venules
Passion does not study anatomy in books.
—Terri Guillemets