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Gilt

2025 June 4th1990 July 10th

Can a good person be both a tree hugger and a book lover, when one has to be murdered to create the other?

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, books, environment, quotes, terri guillemets, trees

Reformulated

2025 September 17th2012 May 1st

Perhaps age is just youth
— old and improved!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, poems, quotes, terri guillemets, youth

Shadow-sweet

2025 October 7th2013 March 1st

If beer tastes too much of cheer,
well then it borders on porter.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Happy Hour Journal Tags -all posts-, alcohol, beer, ha ha, poems, quotes, terri guillemets

Morning routine

2025 July 11th2006 January 3rd

Breathe, thank, pray, rise, stretch, move, live!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, breathing, exercise & fitness, gratitude, life, morning, note to self, prayer, quotes, terri guillemets, wellness

Symptomatic

2025 July 11th2006 January 4th

A maltreated body will cry out in symptoms.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, body, health, medical, quotes, terri guillemets

Startup

2025 July 12th2004 January 12th

Spring stirs under silent snow.

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, nature, outdoors, quotes, seasons, snow, spring, terri guillemets, weather, winter

Suffering in silence

2025 July 10th2024 March 19th

If you don’t know anyone who has it worse than you, trust this — you do. You just don’t know you do.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, note to self, people, perspective, quotes, terri guillemets

Summer saguaro

2025 October 9th2018 June 23rd

With fruity-fingered arms, I hug the sky.

saguaro

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Categories Walking Journal Tags -all posts-, arizona, desert, fruit, nature, picture, plants, quotes, terri guillemets

Overdoing it

2025 July 11th2006 November 2nd

Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, eating, health, quotes, society, stress, terri guillemets, weight gain, wordplay

Hazardous waste

2025 July 11th2006 July 7th

Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, health, note to self, quotes, stress, terri guillemets

Leaving behind

2025 October 7th2013 November 7th

In winter, forgive the fallen leaves of your past.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, forgiveness, leaves, letting go, metaphor, past, quotes, seasons, self, terri guillemets, winter

Sharp wit

2025 November 24th2013 August 5th

Satire is merely pointing out that roses have thorns, and that we can’t avoid pricks.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, curmudgeonesque, ha ha, quotes, society, terri guillemets, wordplay

Junky

2025 July 11th2006 June 11th

Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period.

Terri Guillemets

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