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Creator with sense of humor

2025 March 16th2017 January 31st

I know intelligent design doesn’t exist because whoever gave wings to sewer roaches wasn’t very bright.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Conversations Tags -all posts-, ha ha, insects, quotes, silly, terri guillemets

Hard to escape

2025 March 16th2015 December 27th

Even happiness worries sometimes.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, emotions, happiness, life, popular, quotes, stress, terri guillemets

Threads

2025 March 16th2009 November 29th

Life is woven of love and death, aches and smiles, persistence and letting go.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, balance, death, letting go, life, love, perspective, quotes, smiles, terri guillemets

Sepulturæ

2025 April 19th1998 June 14th

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

Categories Scrap Papers Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, favorites, q&a, quotes, terri guillemets, time

Seek & find

2025 April 5th1998 April 9th

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

—Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune, 1985  (The Coda)

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1980s, collected, favorites, frank herbert, freedom, inspirational, motivational, note to self, quoted, quotes, self, self-improvement, work hard

What 45 feels like at 3 a.m.

2025 September 5th2019 January 26th

Middle age — a stealthy, crafty nemesis.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, forties, ha ha, midlife, night 3am, quotes, terri guillemets

Jettison

2025 March 19th2023 March 26th

Middle age is a heap of abandoned ideals.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, fifties, forties, midlife, quotes, terri guillemets

Speedway

2025 March 16th1991 August 28th

The world is changing so fast I’ve got societal vertigo.

Terri Guillemets

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

Fall, fall!

2025 March 16th2015 September 1st

Fall, temperatures, fall, fall! Let the weather mellow and the year drift into peacefulness.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, autumn, nature, quotes, seasons, terri guillemets, weather, year

Prickly & proverbial

2025 March 16th2005 February 11th

Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, life, quotes, success, terri guillemets, work hard

Are you – Nowhere – too?

2026 May 3rd2026 April 26th

In grief, one is so lost. Grieving is pacing back and forth between past and present — and a feeling of no longer belonging to either place. A feeling of no longer belonging anywhere — because the heart is the map, and with the map suddenly rewritten, one is so lost.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, grief, heart, heartache, loss, melancholy, past, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Falling

2025 March 16th2000 February 20th

Fear is imagination falling off a cliff.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, favorites, fear, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Essence

2025 March 16th2004 May 22nd

A poet can translate birdsong much more faithfully than the biologist ever could.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, birds, poetry: about, poets, quotes, science, sounds, terri guillemets
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