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Terri Guillemets
Archives — 2001




This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2001 — the good, the bad, the active and the retired.  It includes content written for The Quote Garden as well as personal journals and writings.  Some entries were originally untitled with a title added later, and some were first published under other pen names.  —tg, 2023

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


      TITLE:  Symptoms, waiting for signs
      DATE:  2001 Jul 3







Photographs are wordless history.


      DATE:  2001 May 26







Success is a shell — don't let it harden around your ego.
Failure is a shell — don't let it harden around your determination.


      TITLE:  Humble warrior
      DATE:  2001 Sep 29
      NOTES:  revised







Sometimes you just need to be open to the universe's alternate plans for you.


      TITLE:  Flex-ability
      DATE:  2001 Nov 22







Ninety-Nine is a famous number
for at the market the seller knows
he is so very much more popular
than his bigger brother The Dollar!


      TITLE:  99 ¢
      DATE:  2001 Feb 9
      NOTES:  revised







Sometimes the littlest inquiries produce the biggest results.


      DATE:  2001 Jan 31







Sometimes we get blown offtrack by the wind tunnel of daily life.


      DATE:  2001 Jan 25
      NOTES:  revised







Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.


      DATE:  2001 Feb 24







I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.


      DATE:  2001 Mar 18







Heart pumps blood — and love, passion, hurt, joy, faith.


      DATE:  2001 Jul 21







POETRY  is  patchwork
– beauty – light – yearning –
– ether – soul – awe – ink –
– stitches of real life –
 



      TITLE:  Inky threads
      DATE:  2001 Jul 7
      NOTES:  revised







We strive to be God's worthy audience.


      DATE:  2001 Dec 24







Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.


      TITLE:  Rise & shine
      DATE:  2001 Aug 6







Stop waiting. Twenty years is the first bomb of the future.


      TITLE:  Ticking years
      SOURCE:  journal
      DATE:  2001 Mar 2
      NOTES:  re-evaluating life upon being halfway to 20 years out of high school







hot buttery toast
crisp sourdough nooks & crannies
jam receptacle


      DATE:  2001 Mar 8







The only time I was truly happy was as a child, before I knew what happiness was — or wasn't.


      DATE:  2001 Mar 26







When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.


      DATE:  2001 Apr 15







Old-style cursive handwriting is so elegant — a beautiful garden of words with flowering letters.


      TITLE:  𝒮𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓉𝑒𝒹
      DATE:  2001 Jun 29







Fudge is a noun, a verb, an interjection, and delicious!


      DATE:  2001 Apr 16







Is fudge made by chocolate angels?


      DATE:  2001 Apr 16







I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps.


      DATE:  2001 Jun 5







The money's no better in retirement but the hours are!


      DATE:  2001 Jun 5







A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service.


      DATE:  2001 Jun 5







Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment.


      DATE:  2001 Jun 5







All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul — when you look at it, it's looking back at you.


      DATE:  2001 Apr 3







my life’s entwined by curly quote marks
clever phrases and profound remarks


      TITLE:  Quotationitis
      DATE:  2001 Jul 25
      NOTES:  revised







A photograph is the exact recipe, a memory the finished dish.


      DATE:  2001 May 26







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Archives — 2001






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