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Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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Reciprocal reciprocity. Is karma a bit**?

Hello.How are you.I am fine.How were you.Yesterday.Finer than today.Worser than before.About the same.A little “greener.”A little “yellower.”Wish you knew now what you didn’t know then.This end of-the-year-time-of-year does that kind thing.Force us.To reflect.On what we did good.What we did bad.Why we did this.Why we did that.By God’s grace.The patterns will change…..Makes ya think.’Bout a lot of things.A lot about change.Occurrences.And the like.How are youStill.Better.WorseWorried.Scared.Happier.”Aloner”Less aloner.People are a hindrance.P...

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The Prince of Peace

“A feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.”Love.Daring deeds.Celebration of nature.Focus on the individual.Celebration of isolation and melancholy.Interest in the common man.Idealization of women.Personification and pathetic fallacy. (ThoCo)Not always a love interest.A spiritual journey.Looking inward.“Self-reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. An essay of looking inward in order to look outward. Determining your own path and relying on your own resources.Self-reliance means different things to different people….William Wordsmith...

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Belligerence or Ignorance?

“Home” for the holidays.The hustle.The bustle.This time of year finds us wanting to forget or forgetting to want.To remember.The good.The bad.The ugly.The fugly.We dress ourselves up. In shiny new this, or shiny new that.Hoping to remember and hoping to forget.At this time of year, the sugar plum fairy is surely tired of the”dance.”But.We do it anyway.For some.It is healing.For others.It is a struggle.For some.It is happy, fun.For others, it is an obligation.This time of year is such a big time of year.An absolute “buzz.”We know.We know.It c...

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Just Desserts or Just Deserts

Once you get past the colorful fruity, chewy, gooey, stiffness of the loaf.Life gets better.However.It seems to turn up every year at this time.It is as if someone decided to empty the nooks and crannies of their fridge and cabinets and with the help of kitchen utensils, whip up a loaf of “cake” that sits atop a holiday table and stares back at you as if to say”Go ahead. I dare you.”To take a piece. Of me.You wanna piece of me?Go on.Take a bite.On the one hand, it’s oftentimes, “Granny”, who has toiled in the kitchen to prepare this rainbow-...

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The light bulb may glow dim but the light in us grows brighter

Who turned the lights off?Why is it so dark in here?Shuffle. Shuffle…..to check the light switch😵‍💫Exactly.We foolish humans.Always thinking that we must defer control of all things bright and light toSomebody else.We forget to yield.We forget to stop.We forget to look.We forget to lend a helping hand.We forget to remember.To pull up our boot straps and start lighting up the lives of others.Oftentimes.With those we hold near and dear.We fumble the words to say.Thank you.We become so enmeshed in our own fears. We break down.We do all the righ...

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The Muckrake Mountebank

“I forgot.”Two of the most disconcerting words in the English language. So much at stake in the muck and the rake…….Frozen.In the midst of the competition. Any which way and loose.Competition makes strange bedfellows.Provided one stays out of another’sBed.Bedroom.That is.A pre-requisite.Otherwise feelings, nothing more than feelings eek their way,”In.”Insidious really.But not for the alert. The awakened.At this time of year, fairies and elves become ever present in our holiday worlds……The elf on the shelf moves at another’s whim.To the fear ...

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Diabolically Divisive and Diabetes Divine

Sugar highs.Sugar lows.Artificially.Pure cane.The Diabolical Sweet Tooth.Throw caution to the wind.Just dig in.This time of year, especially, can be a time of great indulgence. Great indulgences.Great highs.Great lows.And through it all.Sugar is there.To make it all better…Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.Present and unaccounted for.Sugar can wreak a havoc.On the system.Systemically.Too much sugar in the blood can lead to serious health problems. (mc)The mysterious way in which some folks can down a box of dots or juju bee...

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Under the Weather and Other Manipulative Functional Phenomena

Have you ever wondered what goes on in the back, or in some cases, side of your local “drug” store?What goes on in that cordoned off room with persons in white coats hustling and bustling around. Counting pills. Measuring potions. The room in the back behind the other potions, lotions, and pads. Way in the back, neatly sits the higher power. The higher powered “stuff.” The powerful stuff designed throughout the years of experience and under the table deals. Shelved as the higher power. Stuff.Functional gains got us to this point, although th...

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Endless

Some days seem like they will never end.New possibilities.Old hurts.Cling.Clingons.ClingClingons.Shake it off.Deep breaths.Do not work.The same old picture, pictures return to the mind’s eye in the blink of an eye. Stopping us in our tracks. Snow capped tracks. Leaving behind ragged footsteps of dis array leading no body anywhere good. Or helpful.Knee capped.Again. By our own thoughts, words and actions.Oftentimes.We do it to ourselves.Other times.We do not.Because it sticks, it is sticky, like glue.Why is it.The negative usually lasts longe...

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The Vigilante Servant

There is an old fashioned saying.”Everything old is new again.”Could the saying also mean,”Everything new is old again”, too🙂A heart that stays awake, alert.(pf)One of the prerequisites of a servant’s heart.Another prerequisite:To know: Who the boss is🙂🙏🏻.As young children, when we become frustrated with authority, we stop and stomp and say to our parents, guardians, the elders,”You are not the boss of me.”😠😤😡😭Even as adults, we can do the same, act the same childish way.When we do not get our own way. When our expectations are not to our, w...

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Moral Authority

O.k.Let’s first admit.We, at this beautiful, snow capped time of year.Don’t want to be cold.Don’t care to be cold.Cold and clammy……..The brrrrrrrrrr….kind of existence that does not alone come from the atmospheric temperature. The days are shorter. The light is, too.We slumber either quickly or slower into slumberland depending upon who holds the keys.Caughtcha.Diving over to your new ikea age night stand just to make certain your light was still on…🎲💡💡⌛️⏳Why not ask yourself, first, if your light is still on. Completely understandable the d...

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Aphoristic Sententiousness. Egoism or Theoism. Your choice.

Unbridled.Blunt.Direct.Un sugar coated.Un blanketed.De brided.Cats beware.Of.Other cats.(Disclaimer: Thus author is a true lover. Of all furry and not so furry animals.)Even turtles, the animals who breathe out of their butts.Really. It is true. They do. I love them nonetheless.If you doubt, do not believe, look it up!My source of the yummy (albeit gross) information is completely trustworthy. (AWA)What more is there to do?Well.Not make a deal with the devil is a good start.A deal with the devil. (gb)Terrifying terror.Pay close attention. (g...

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Crossing the Bar

“Sunset and evening star,And one clear call for me!And May there be no moaning of the bar,When I put out to sea,But such a tide as moving seems asleep,Too full for sound and foam,When that which drew from out the boundless deepTurns again home.Twilight and evening bell,And after that the dark!And May there be no sadness of farewell,When I embark;For though from out our bourne of Time and PlaceThe flood may bear me far,I hope to see my Pilot face-to-faceWhen I have cross’d the bar.(AT)Temptation does not take a back seat.To patience.Forbearan...

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Drool or Drawl? The Light at the Gas Station Coffee Machine

To swipe or not to swipe.That is the question.How do you take a swipe?At another.Without ‘em lookin’Tap.Tap.Tap.Send….What or WHO shows up in your “inbox”. The inbox of your life. Do you like it? Are you tempted to act upon it? Take a swipe at another, another’s family because it is too (fill in the blank) tempting, not to?Just to get ahead.Do you have a set of personally held and healed beliefs that may prevent the child in you from just acting, reacting? Stomp. Stomp.Worse yet.Do you seek out another because you have tired of the same old ...

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The Intrepid Intransigent

Revolving doors.Turnstiles.Doggy doors.(🙂)Slammed doors.Knocked on doors.Open doors.On this day of Thanksgiving.🦃We should all take a minute and be thankful.For the food trucks!🙏🏻Life can be a dicey world, unfair world even. Take a moment to ponder life’s great difficulties. A wonder of its own. Why is it cats are allowed to roam free, hunting for another’s food supply. Any way possible. Any way “do able.”Flirtatiously leading on another in an attempt to grab their cookies and run.☺️ Yum. Yum.Ya coulda just asked.what gets in the way?The tur...

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