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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

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

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

Losing count

2025 March 16th2020 May 16th

Damnit!  I  binged
again  II day
IV  life was hard
and so  I
VIII  my stress away.
O why do  I  so  of X  gorge?
Since turning  XL
I’ve been extra large.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, eating, favorites, food, forties, ha ha, health, math & numbers, midlife, perimenopause, poems, popular, silly, stress, terri guillemets, wordplay

Self-conviction

2025 March 22nd2024 April 28th

when you live too hard
forty is a warning
fifty, penalty

Terri Guillemets

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

Soiled

2025 March 17th2003 April 22nd

If organic is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, food, fruit, health, popular, quotes, society, terri guillemets, veggies & greens, words

Waking to a newer than new day

2025 September 5th2007 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

Serenity & grace

2025 March 16th2010 October 29th

when I fall into old age
let it be not a drunkenly
face-first tumble but rather
an autumn leaf gracefully
drifting from the tree —
or if we ascend into our
older years please let me
soar and not be flung

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, attitude, health, letting go, metaphor, quotes, revised, terri guillemets

Greens & things

2025 March 16th2008 May 4th

good health, yes, is partly genes
really though it’s more about greens
and other types of healthful things

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, food, health, poems, terri guillemets, wellness

Vital

2025 March 16th2008 January 27th

You are as important to your health as it is to you.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, health, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, wellness

Stick with calm

2025 March 16th2008 December 13th

Try not to worry, as it’s sticky and hard to scrub off.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, fear, health, mind, quotes, terri guillemets, wellness

$ick

2025 April 19th2023 January 19th

in this day and age
dealing with health insurance
worst disease of all

Terri Guillemets

“All complaints about life today will be ignored unless they are submitted in the format of elegant haiku poetry.” —Dr. SunWolf

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, enshittification, health, medical, poems, q&a, senryu, society, stress, terri guillemets

Well-becoming

2025 March 16th2008 March 3rd

Wellness is the art of healing before you’re sick.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, body, favorites, healing, health, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, wellness
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