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Anew

2025 March 11th2006 October 11th

Our bodies let go when it’s time to let go — it’s called death. We ought to let go of the little burdensome things each day — that’s called living.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, death, emotions, favorites, healing, letting go, life, mind, popular, quotes, self, stress, terri guillemets, wellness

Ever finding

2025 March 16th2005 October 19th

Always remember lost, so that you don’t take for granted found.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, favorites, gratitude, infj, memories, mind, perspective, popular, quotes, stress, terri guillemets

Minds awash

2025 March 16th1997 November 6th

Belief stains darker, imprints deeper than truth.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Schoolwork Tags -all posts-, humans, mind, popular, quotes, society, terri guillemets, truth

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

It’s now

2025 March 16th2006 October 12th

Don’t let the past steal your present.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, mind, past, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, time

Wizen

2025 September 17th2022 November 28th

but on the bright side
middle age aridity
concentrates essence

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, forties, midlife, mind, perimenopause, poems, senryu, spirit, terri guillemets, transformation, womanhood, wordplay

Inscribed

2025 March 16th2007 March 17th

graves are not limited
to the cemetery —
they lurk in our minds,
and buried in our hearts
lie garlanded stones
marking loved ones lost

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, emotions, favorites, grief, heart, loss, melancholy, memories, mind, poems, popular, terri guillemets

Simple–minded

2025 March 16th1993 February 20th

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, mind, quotes, simplicity, terri guillemets

Mind own secrets

2025 March 16th2007 March 26th

Frustration is nothing more than letting your own mind bully you.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, emotions, favorites, health, hsp, infj, letting go, mind, perspective, popular, quotes, self, stress, terri guillemets

Insomnia ticking

2025 March 16th2019 April 6th

three o’clock —
anxiety, regret
in the depths of worry
swept away in the
whirlwind of nothing —
a horrible nothing

Terri Guillemets

blackout poetry created from Octave Mirbeau, The Diary of a Chambermaid, 1891–1900

Categories Found Poetry Tags -all posts-, altered prose, blackout poetry, emotions, favorites, fear, found poetry, insomnia, mind, night, night 3am, poems, remix lit, sleep, terri guillemets

Emotion sickness

2025 March 16th2007 June 11th

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, emotions, favorites, health, medical, mind, quotes, terri guillemets

Grief bores holes

2025 May 7th2019 May 4th

Grief bores holes
in our hearts & heads
like a woodpecker
— peck peck peck
— knock knock knock
You can’t make it stop
Eventually it flies away
— but leaves pits
that never fully heal

Terri Guillemets

Categories Lunch Break Journal Tags -all posts-, death, emotions, grief, heartache, loss, melancholy, metaphor, mind, pain, poems, self, terri guillemets, woodpeckers

Saving y’all some time

2025 March 16th2019 May 8th

After reading countless health books over the past couple of decades, I can tell you it pretty much all boils down to this:  Eat plenty of veggies, work, play, rest, and don’t worry.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, balance, body, eating, food, health, life, medical, mind, nutrition, perspective, play, quotes, simplicity, stress, success, terri guillemets, wellness
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