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Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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The Master Baiter

No. No. No.This is not rated “R” or “X”. More like “G.”Please get your head out of the gutter.Opposites attract and wow can they attack.One man’s encouragement is another man’s threat.One man’s stir the pot is another man’s hunger boiling over.One man’s ignite is another man’s extinguish.One man’s instigate is another man’s retreat.One man’s fire up is another man’s hose down.One man’s energize is another man’s exhaustion.One man’s foment is another man’s hidden terror.One man’s anger is another man’s happiness.One man’s galvanization is ano...

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Huh?

A note of thanks from Sovereignty:A horse is a horse of course of course.Have you ever found yourself turning up the volume of your favorite musical tune so you do not hear what is going on around in the periphery?Some days can feel as though a loud truck hit blowing its wheel hit our aura, our us, leaving us far behind with nothing but a nagging and gnawing pain. Draining our energy and leaving it dwindling day by day, depleted by the lies, innuendos, and “that’s not what I said” echoes. Reason becomes eclipsed by coping in a myriad of ways...

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Who is not afraid of the whale?

Fair estimation of the encountered peril. The older we get, by God’s grace, is and are the times we learn what courage can be and can become.Disclaimer: I am afraid often. Not by what is “out there.” “ The brave person is not the one who is never afraid.” (wjb). Yet.No one wants to be that “guy” in an emergency who cannot cope with the chaos and conundrums, screams and chortles of the frenemies and enemies.Enter.Wisdom of getting through it when without honestly admitting it, we’d rather go around it.Huh?🤔Character is the ability to carry ou...

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Man plans. God laughs.

Sometimes.In the best of circumstances. Or. In the worst of circumstances.Light shines.Until it doesn’t.Until it will.Again.Until then….Who knows.There exist. Many strong word of description.The strongest—won the prize?Hurray. Yeah-Me. But of what?Exactly.The me over you? The you over me?The bandwagon is highest for the one who have not yet decided on the yet, that is now. Or was. Or whatever.Yet.We pretend. With the greatest of our gestures and gesticulations, inflections and sonatas, to show the world,We got this.We got you.All you need to...

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Home is where the heart is and visitation “rights.”

There is a phrase, a saying, that opines, “You can never go back.”To the way it was.Yes. For certain. Certainly for certain.Change for the sake of change is just change.Without truth, the narrative plays on, even plays along.Family and Familiarity combine into a perfect storm. Of the way it was. Or the way we were. Come hell or high water the waive and the wave of a potential future. Together. One caveat: If we only stick together. Combine the forces of all evil to carry on the vices and the voices of the past.In effect, what holds “it” all ...

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Dooby and Dawby

Daily.People would walk by.Run by and run up to.Dooby and Dawby.Every day.Sometimes twice a day.People would come from near and far, stay for one day, stay for one hour. Stay all day to watch the terrific twosome entertain the day away.The Dooby annd Dawby act was would become the talk of the street and soon became the talk of the city and then the talk of the state. Out of state, tooDooby and Dawby would stand next to one another on the same street corner from dusk until dawn. Juggling, miming, and mining for coins to be dropped into a funn...

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Oldie but a Goodie. Oldie or a Goodie?

Over prepare and go with the flow.Words to live by spoken, out loud, by an octogenarian named.“Burt.”Live and learn.OrSo “they” say.Burt would remind and remember. This mantra of a life well lived.Bitterness is as bitterness does in precarious and various ways and means. The end does not justify the means. The end never justifies, at all.What happened?Burt got hurt.Expression was his problem.Or.Lack thereof…….Hurt has a way of turning us inside out.Inside. Out.Hurt hurts.The longest part of going home, is the last part. (ml/hnw)Indeed.For be...

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When Time Stands Still.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?The ticking and clicking.Of the clock on the wall.The tocking and blocking.Of the clock on the wall.Used to be, we did not rush around so much in the never ending. Haze of confusion. In a haze of a haze of a haze of a haze as the day and the days passed by.Now. We do.Half the time, we may not even know what we are doing, where we are going. How we got there.We just got there.No rhyme. No reason.No way.Yes. Way.Reputations have a way of sneaking up on us.Unless of course we heed His word. Of calm resolve.Th...

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Pi R Squared.

Discourage-Encourage= Courage.Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.Yep.Bring it on. Give it your best shot. Fire away.The perimeter and the diameter of a circular sphere.Is a circle.Round and round and round it goes. Where it stops.Nobody knows.”We become brave by doing brave acts.” Aristotle wrote in the Nicomachean Ethics. Further, dispositions of character, virtues and vices (🍻🍷🍸🍹🥂🍾🥃🍶☕️🍵🧉) are progressively fixed in us through practice.(wjb)Practice makes perfect.Furthe...

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A tiny little voice inside me says…….

That whisper.The quiet whisper.Hang on.Help is on its way.How long must we wait?”You have my word.” A good and honest person says. We listen because well, they are a good and honest person.Our impatience renders us “hyperactive.” Not wanting to wait any longer. Not now anyway. So we head for the hills. Walk away. from burden we feel is too much to bear.Walk away from the trouble maker because they cause too much trouble.Unable or not willing to admit when we make a gargantuan mistake or even a tiny little one. When we walked away. Too diffic...

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Ain’t no mountain high enough

Temptations have a way of knee capping even the strongest of us. “Go on, dip your toe in.” Nothing bad will happen.Until something bad happens. Crushing-ego-type blows to the psyche. Falling down incoherent for this reason or that. Or. Just falling down.Ugh.We wanna just go back to bed. Sometimes. We show up with the intent to do good, going about it in ways that show our cluelessness in the cues. Societal norms seem so passéWhat did I just say?What did I just do?Who did what?Why did you do it THAT way?We become confused when accepting the d...

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What goes around comes around. One thing leads to another. Common sense….

Expectations are funny things.Outsmartment brings.The doubt that all things evil clings, too.Soooooooooooooo.Now where do we go?Backwards?Babbling more than ever the truths of the lies and the depths of the lies and the lengths to which humans will go to pull the cushy, cushy wool over the eyes of the innocent.Not so funny. Not such a funny thing. Establishment is best built on a happy and truthful foundation of clear, transparency.We are our own worst enemy. We can also become another’s, too. With very little effort and a whole lotta bitter...

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Words don’t mean. People mean.

Words don’t mean. People mean.(ak)So.What does this mean?Serve. Volley. Spike.Down. Downward.Into the face of another.Smash it.Into the face of another.Rub it?In the face of another.Or.Hit a guy harder when he is on his way down?Who means what?What did you mean?I was not quite sure.What you meant when you said what you said.Or. Did what you did.The opposite of competing is accommodating. When one person is competing and wins, the other is accommodating. (dk)This can be a win-lose scenario, mind you.That is one problem with conflict resolutio...

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Free to be. You and Me.

It’s funny.Not always.Humorous or comical.The clue.The hint.Being left in another’s dust.Not so much.Pride.And.Prejudice.Many. A dollars and sense, common sense has already been spent.Time.Money.Energy,As well.At the end of the day.I am willing to bet, we all look in the mirror one least time before retiring. For the night. Before the head may or may not hit a pillow. That is.To see. What?If we have changed.For some, the change will not be obvious, evident or even clear.We feel something is “different.”We hope something is different.We colle...

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Is late better than never? Time is of the essence.

Punctuality.An important note of respect toward another.Toward one another.Irrevocable?Like over sleeping in, over sleeping, missing the train, missing the bus, The snow balling problems feed on the ramifications of others sometimes. Who gets to “say” whose time is more valuable than another?Time is of the essence.To respond is to answer.To be responsible is to be answerable.One of our founders, James Madison came to the realization when he delimited the parameters of responsibility (wjb). “Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be ...

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