A headstone is just a bookmark in our unfinished lives.
—Terri Guillemets
A headstone is just a bookmark in our unfinished lives.
—Terri Guillemets
We all have those moments in our lives that transform us — something small or big happens and we’re never the same.
Sometimes we remember these moments in our personal histories as leaps, or falls — or just serendipitous wanderings — from one life segment to the next.
Or we mark them like stars on a map of self — constellations of life-changing moments. Some seem crazy small and wouldn’t even register as stars in others’ systems. But in our own they blaze bright.
Or maybe our days are raindrops and our lives rolling clouds and these moments are lightning strikes. Raindrop days, lightning-strike moments.
These maps and moments imprint our souls, our minds, our memorious hearts. Our stories of self are made from them.
—Terri Guillemets
No volume of history is insignificant, even the worst chapters. Especially the worst chapters.
—Terri Guillemets
In a hospital
it’s difficult to listen
to sad, scary sounds
“code blue” on intercoms
wailing, grieving families
beep-beep-beep of machines —
But if you listen
more carefully
you can hear
the sound of hope
of healing, love, and support
caring, confident voices
of nurses and doctors and staff
the din and melodies of
our imperfect and indispensable
healthcare plexus at work
—Terri Guillemets
Failure is not frailty.
Success never guarantees.
—Terri Guillemets
Loss — the great redefiner of life.
—Terri Guillemets
I do love my friends who wouldn’t dare judge me — but we all need to be judged, sometimes.
—Terri Guillemets
You’ve got to keep moving to keep the beauty of life in perspective. If you hold still too long, things go blurry.
—Terri Guillemets
Wind tries to show Tree how to run wild.
Tree: “I cannot leave this place.”
Wind: “Then let’s dance.”
—Terri Guillemets
“Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don’t matter any more.”
—Robert Brault
Life is woven of love and death, aches and smiles, persistence and letting go.
—Terri Guillemets
Scars tell us more about the future than the past, about how we can live strong despite any pain we’ve been through.
—Terri Guillemets
Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.
—Terri Guillemets