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Every morning

2025 March 17th2017 August 5th

Dawn-giddy birds sing as if every morning is a special occasion. Wise, wise birds.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, birds, favorites, morning, nature, outdoors, quotes, terri guillemets

Welcome, Winter

2025 March 16th2011 December 22nd

Welcome, Winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.

Terri Guillemets

P.S.  Thank you to all who let me know about King Features Syndicate and USA Today using this for their “Cryptoquote” on January 5th. —tg, 2024

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, morning, nature, popular, quotes, seasons, terri guillemets, weather, winter

Feel it, live it

2025 March 11th2014 September 11th

If you feel beautiful, then you are. Even if you don’t, you still are.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Writer's Journal Tags -all posts-, beauty, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Beautiful & unfair

2025 March 11th2007 January 14th

Life is not always fair — sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, favorites, life, perspective, popular, quotes, rainbows, revised, terri guillemets

Embracingly spring

2025 March 16th2009 January 16th

When a fresh springtime breeze
embraces you — fling your arms
wide open and hug it right back!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, hugs, nature, quotes, seasons, spring, terri guillemets, weather, wind & breeze

Meant-to’s

2025 March 15th2006 December 1st

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Lunch Break Journal Tags -all posts-, body, dancing, favorites, happiness, health, letting go, popular, quotes, spirit, terri guillemets

The fight

2025 March 11th2009 January 10th

Winter is a lean, scrappy fighter. Spring blossoms from the sweat of Winter’s brow.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, nature, popular, quotes, seasons, spring, terri guillemets, winter

Early morning goodbyes

2025 March 11th2016 April 28th

Death is never a clean break — some stardust always remains.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, favorites, grief, hope, in memoriam, loss, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, universe

Good morning!

2025 March 17th2006 September 8th

Dawn spreads her wispy pink angel wings over the morning.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, angels, arizona, clouds, colors, morning, nature, pink, quotes, sky, sunrise & sunset, terri guillemets, weather

Move it

2025 March 13th2004 May 13th

Too many of us have a skipping spirit but a sit-still body.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, favorites, health, note to self, popular, quotes, skipping, terri guillemets

Precarious

2025 March 11th2019 June 3rd

Aging is millions of moments
stacked upon tumbling years

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, favorites, poems, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, time

Myelin

2025 March 11th1995 March 14th

I love you with all my bones — the heart is too ephemeral.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, favorites, heart, love, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Symptoms, waiting for signs

2025 March 11th2001 July 3rd

I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Lunch Break Journal Tags -all posts-, body, favorites, health, popular, quotes, terri guillemets
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