Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“The Deep Dive of the Deep Divide. The Expert Wise Guy is at our Side.” by Julie Ainger

Difficult paths.Inaccessible slopes.Summit too high.Path too steep.(pf)When the road ahead is only uphill.When the chasm becomes much too wide to cross, to climb.Who do you call on ?The Expert Wise Guy.The Son of the Living God.He reminds us who we are.Where we came from.Why we are here.What to do about it.He is the God of the present.When we know what the right thing to do is, but are deathly afraid.Of it.Of the unknown.Of the predictability, the routine of the certain times and certainty of time.The Expert Wise Guy fills us with hope. Real...

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“Simplicity is not laden or loaded with burden. ” by Julie Ainger

Marriage or Mirage.Pools of water seen over hot desert sand.Illusions and hallucinations are products of the mind.What we see is not always what we see.What we hear is not always what we hear.What happens when happiness is unattainable.What happens next.In a life of vow and service?When the burden to bear becomes too much to bear?Keeping the pressure of unimaginable dread and fear. On the mind. On the body. On the heart.Where does one go? Where does one seek to find a place to cast the overwhelming cares? The sick in the gut feeling comes, a...

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“Needs that were never met are needs that have never met.” by Julie Ainger

”It all comes down to money.”Nothing could be truer.It= AI.Paper.Pencil.Digital.Buttons.Requires none, if any human touch on the part of the recipient.Really.Tik Tok made certain of that.Tick Tock made certain of this.Survival of the fittest.Father time is not, nor is never defeated.Or. Not so fit.However it is you choose to roll.Along with, alongside the the stringy, virus of “surprise”, surprises.Or in opposition to and of.It.And if you feel powerful in your endeavors.More power to you.Hopefully your world did not get lost in the shuffle.T...

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“The spidey sensed and scented non sensical chain letter” by Julie Ainger

I smell a rat.🐀Suspiciously, surreptitiously ratty.The never-break-the-chain-kind-of-stink-a-link.That never ends.Never goes away.Destined to continue to take up residence in the nooks and crannies of existence.Never ending ly sends my stomach into a free fall of barf and gag.It starts slow, nagging, never really goes away.Some days, it comes on full force, in full force and effect.Exhausting.Literally.Figuratively.And all the empty spaces in between.The literal.The figurative.The open and empty spaces.Awry.Amiss.Ugh.As small children we cur...

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“Spiritual Tenacity” by Julie Ainger

Seeing the big picture takes time.Takes your time.Takes my time.Insistence is the key to a successful path of crossed and crossing boundaries. Inclusively. Exclusively.Gotta follow the rules and the laws, yes. A no brainer.When deep down we become possessed with our protective capabilities at the helm. We run.We run to the Father.Ask.Seek.Knock.And. Keep on knocking until we prove to Him we are a bonafide follower. Of His. Not of beautiful formulas, with little awareness of the wealth of concepts. With the insistence that the deeds of faith ...

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“The bond that binds” by Julie Ainger

Where has the time gone?A kid I grew up with has a birthday today.🙂Only with God’s grace and a willingness to learn the ropes.Are we still smiling. And still talking to each other.Headstrong persons butt heads from time to time.Wait. You wonder. That’s the bar? The bar you set for a successful existence?No. Not at all. But to say I have learned all the answers would be trite and stupid.I remember with great clarity and vividness when we first met.It was the second of the two best days ever.🙂🙂It is an overwhelming thing. To have a person so a...

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“Special Delivery? Postal fraud and the break down of the order of the law, the order of the soul.” by Julie Ainger

Lots of things and persons being transported from here to there lately.Who decides which ones should be the recipient of the “Handle with Care” label. Scary times call for scary measures of poundage and time.Or. So I thought.But. Then again.Trust is something that can be chewed up and spit out.It was all so surreal.So.Violating.Did you know?It is illegal.Illegal to tamper with another person’s package.☺️When the rules and regulations are ignored willy nilly, not enforced, the gaping hole for diabolical nosey, handsy persons just continues on...

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“Conciliatory Constellations. Will the stars ever align?” by Julie Ainger

My head is pounding.My heart is pounding.My head is aching.My heart is aching.Like a bad, bad case of poison ivy.🌿🪴🌱🌾Sticky….. sticks around long enough toAnnoy.Tickles.But.Doesn’t tickle a person pink though.Tickles just enough to tick a person off, and out of bed.Leaves a scar, too.Just enough of a reminder to “take you back” to the insidious ways it introduced itself into your world “way back when”. Or maybe not so way back when. What the heck why be specific and picky now….when it doesn’t suit all the the needs of everyone.The necessary ...

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“It’s getting ugly. Love is not always roses and glory. ” by Julie Ainger

Bring it on.The things we do for love🫨Ready, willing and able?Yes.Willing to do what it takes.Yes.Willing to punch back.Yes.Willing to not accept.Yes.Willing to stand, really stand.Yes.Willing to live with a good disposition.Yes.Willing to live with a good disposition toward fellowship and sharing.Yes.Willing to resist benevolence at all costs.Yes.Willing to live in supportive companionship in distress or woe.Yes.Compassion comes close to the very heart.The very heart of moral awareness.Courage takes its stand by others.Compassion takes its ...

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“How do we know when the coast IS clear? Disambiguation and other strange bedfellows.” by Julie Ainger

Persons really need to stay out of other person’s bedrooms.Adversity insidiously strikes while the iron is hot.Most often when we are calm, cool and collected.Adversity practices its many forms, shapes and sizes in the corners of our minds.Etched there for reference and recompense. No one is ever owed anything good or bad.It does beg a question, though….What is the meaning?The meaning of the signs.The signs that our Lord is near.When the scorpion shows up?When the bull gets restless?When the serpent works to tip the boat?Depends on what you ...

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“The Octagonal Octogenarian and the Truncated Triple plus One” by Julie Ainger

Complete truncation?Rectification?We will all be waiting. A very long time for that to occur.On the regular octagon, there are eleven distinct symmetries.Who likes “regular” anyway.I am old enough to remember when Rubik and his cube came on the scene and indeed did “piss” a lot of people off-with the colored sides, fine motor skill requirements and critical thinking tests too.Me. I just threw it against the wall in a frustrated attempt to align all the colored, squares.Rubik just wasn’t my thing. It was my aversion to organize and separate a...

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“Real friends don’t let friends drive drunk” by Julie Ainger

He hangs out with me.He’s a “hanger- on- er”, if you willHe hangs on my every word.And I do all of the talking☺️He and I have some awesome debates.He rides along with me in the best of times, the worst of times.Oh!! the debates about life that we have.He takes me seriously, for my own sake.He takes my perspective and sees only the moral paradigm of my perspective. (wjb)It doesn’t make me feel creepy, nervous or worried that he is always looking at me.😉For I look to my little furry friend for a shoulder to cry on, a joke to share, a feeling t...

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“Are YOU serious?” by Julie Ainger

About anything?Serious about good.Serious about bad.Serious about this.Serious about that.Let me give you a hand.To feel as if you have a hand in “it”.The cookie jar?No.Something even better.The rock bottom way of escalating the one self back to the top.In the most miserably possibly honest way.Alone.On the island of I can do this. With guidance from my “peeps”.The ones I welcome in towalk the walkEven when I challenged them more than they may have deserved.on the open seas even.in the corner.Lotsa places.Takes a lot of gumption.It can real...

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“Sense, Sensibility, Senescence” by Julie Ainger

Can we stop?Can we please stop?Can we please stop it?We, and we alone are responsible.For the madness. For the unarguable fact we are the aliens that have over taken our planet.When in God’s name did we think we could change what He already made perfect?You.I, for one, am sick of it,Sick from it.Sick of hearing it.Sick of seeing it.Sick of hearing it.Sick of touching it.Sick of tasting it.Baloney.The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.A straight line.Unafraid of your bestest, fastest curve. Your curveball.My perceptions,...

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“Roots of Joy ” by Julie Ainger

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.Are you closed in illusion? Shut down in the narrative of the same old same old?Can you, do you,Pick youself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.Or, murmur, mumble and mutter to yourself quietly “Nope, No way”.“I’m tired”.Or do you murmur, mumble and mutter just loud enough so that someone will assist you, help you to move your life in a new direction? In the honest to goodness plea to move in a different, better direction? A truthful direction. A God-given direction.Do whatever it takes to “Get i...

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