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Julie Ainger

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Protect your Position.

Protect your ally.Protect your angels or angles?Even if and when nobody else does or will.Why?A funny thing about angles and angels.It is difficult to believe one.It is near impossible to keep up with the other.It is never safe to assume.Never. Safe. To Assume.That we have the slightest clue about what another person thinks.There is a very slight difference.A very fine line.Between the two—An angle and an angel, Other than the obvious mechanics of the word. One can use one with the other but one cannot use the other with the one.It doesn’t a...

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Do as I say not as I do. The dirty work and the power of suggestion.

Life nowadays in the land of the free and home of the brave.Admit it.Sometimes.You just want to go outside and scream your lungs out, kick a wall, flip a table on its side.About where we are. Now.Saying you’ll do something may take one kind of courage.Actually doing it requires a different type.Real bravery lies in deeds, not words.(wjb)Consequences and accountabilities to follow.Never mind?Nope.Do as I say, not as I do.The Brave Mice.By Aesop”An old cat was in the habit of catching all the mice in the barn. One day the mice met to talk abou...

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Ala’ Carte. Prophets. Profits. Prophetic Oaths and Promises.

Warning!To Bardolaters everywhere.Alert!Amber,IPA,Pale Ale,Prophetic.Yes.Unforced error?Hmmmmmmm…..An avoidable error in which something good or of value is eliminated when trying to get rid of something unwanted.I feel ‘ya.Retaining the superfluous because of excessive zeal.Bardolaters beware. Anything done is excess is doomed.There is no magic potion.No $400.00 whiskey or $ 40.00 either.To ease the pain or burden.No cow with spots or chocolate sprinkle dustings.There are no tarot cards.Carrot cards.No palming it.No reading palms.A horoscop...

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Apophasis here to save the day…..

Brow may wrinkle.Hair grow gray.Apophasis here to save the day.Pass the test.Stand the test.Of time.Father Time.Mother Time.Running out of Time.Friendships that have stood the test—Time and change.Are surely best.New-made friendships, like new wine🍷, Age will mellow and refine.(jp)One is silver.The other—Gold.Songs.Chants.Practices.Rituals.Gestures.Words.Actions.Reverence. A feeling. A feeling or attitude of deep respect. A feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration. The word is often, (not always) used in relationship w...

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The Opacity of Hope.. Ouch! to TP parchment paper😉

Thinking on your feet.On your feet.Ouch to the dry gulch.What is your favorite crayola box color?Mine is: Opaque.Not transparent.Not translucent.Like Goldilocks(scj) says: Just right!!When you look in the mirror. What IS staring back at you? You. Yourself and You?A “problem”?Our reflections tell us so, so much. Either can be diffuse, reflecting off of a white wall, or specular (not spectacular, no mis spell here), light reflecting off of a mirror.I choose the later. (Sounds like “ladder”.)Opacity depends on the frequency of the light being c...

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Riding the Rollercoaster and Temporal Dips of Life with the Fantods

It is a wild ride.Life.Kinda looks like an EKG test.The same characteristics.The same scary thrill.The ups.The downs.UpDownAmusing sometimes.Downright scary othertimes.An amusement park.Life.Up.Down.Seatbelts can be a lifesaver.Cotton candy is sticky.The giant stuffed panda bear won with blood, sweat, and tears, still must be carried around for the reminder of the day of amusement.Up.Down.Refocus.Walk on.Hang on for dear life.Might as well simply admit it. And accept it. Admit and accept that is matters to you.The bumpy ride. Of opinions, va...

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Wild and Crazy Guys in Wild and Crazy Styles in Wild and Crazy Skies.

North.South.East.West.Wild. Wilderness. Nature. Natural.Sorry. If finding the means to an end requires more noise.Sorry. If it requires a paper map.Sorry. It it requires a compass.Sorry. If it requires one to use their brain a little.Sorry. If Siri became lost in the wilderness……the wild of the wilderness.Has Siri now taken to the marine wilderness?... Is Siri, just, well, everywhere? When challenged, Siri will not bend of break nor bend or stretch that far. Becomes staticky noise and noisy in the brush and the trees.You must get there on yo...

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Tongues of fire and collective consciousness

This application is open to all, everyone.There is no exclusivity.There is free will.There are no connection problems or difficulties.Sounds almost too good to be true, wouldn’t you say?There is a “catch”.You have to work for it.This may not be copacetic for some. Thus the rumor mill begins the circle of rumors and innuendo. And the tongues start a “waggin” with stories of false and misguiding information.You are what you eat.And some folks eat others.Just ‘cuz.They are bored.They are mean.They prefer pot stirring.They have become calloused ...

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The Real Deal. The Lesser of Two Evils. Poll Dancing or Pole Dancing.

Spam you + Scam you=(ac) ==Squishy Ham😝Yuck.The pigs are squealing loudly.Right out loud.One by one.In a straight line.Obviously prancing to their destiny of and for humans oft daily enjoyment.Bacon.🥓Betcha ya didn’t know.Now. Perhaps you wish you didn’t.Know.Want a piece of it?The action?Enjoy.But don’t think too much about it or else you may get a belly ache. A bacon filled belly ache. I think I hear the squealing really coming from deep inside your gut. The grumbling and mumblings.Was it worth it?Instant gratification?Seriously thinking o...

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Loyalty. Royalty. A right and a left. A left and a right.

Know your rights.Actually.I though this was the romance section.But. At this point.I was wrong.And that is a-ok by and with me.The trailing long haul u haul can become tiresome, cumbersome, lonesome.Well. At least it is “some” thing.Spoken. Unspoken. Gestured and Broken.How can you mend a broken heart?💔Very carefully.Some may even agree methodically, still others may just “chuck it” and do it wildly.Go with the rational. There are more then 900 million native speakers of Romance languages found worldwide.Who knew!?Not me.Further. The major r...

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“It’s just too much😡” Zero to Ninety and Somewhere in the Middle

The suspense can kill.Abandoned.The kids who fall behind are the kids who may stay behind (bs).For far, far, far, far too long.Greed may be good. According to fictitious character Gordon Gecko.Greed can also kill.The hard to decipher, hard to tell, hard to hunch differences between real and fake. Do exist. Have an existenceA hunch Gordon may not have had kids “of his own” yet. The minutiae of the details of Wall Street escape me…at all times, especially when attempting to shut down truth.The least of these. Coming in last place. Every which ...

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Kill two birds with one stone and other sweetheart deals in the works.

The game of life.Giving it your all.Hit me with your best shot.Bring your A game if on the B team. Or B game if on the A team.Whatever.Lost it anyway.Somewhere under the couch.Or bed.Or bench.Closet, chair or table.Still looking for a clue.Running around in circles.Back and forth.Up and down.Here and there.There and here.Achieving perceived success at all costs. The costs of self. The cost of others.In the end it doesn’t really matter.Doing the right thing is doing the right thing. Right Winged or Left Winged.Definition time: Hurray! hurray!...

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Even better than before

The shot.The goal.Score!!The middle.Two ways to go—Up or down.Which way do you aspire your life to head. More important. Who do you allow into your life to help you lead the way? Tough question and hard realties sometimes are the indicators. But they do not have to be the compass by which you move through your life. Not that compass. Not another of those superficial compasses.The compass you carry with you at all time and maybe did not even know it was there all the time!!Back to basics. Back to fundamentals.The shot.The goal.The score!!The ...

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Triggered. Prompted. Prompted. Triggered. Letting yourself “Go”.

Throwing yourself at another.Any which way and loose.Boundaries left someone on the back back or back side of another down the road, up the road.Not sure.Cuz’I forgot.Where I came from.What I believe.Who I believe and all that other good stuff that goes along with that. Or this.Or you.Or Him.The “Big Guy”….. Open to interpretation and a grave worry is that the little voices that whisper or scream: “My God, My God, How did we get here”. All the talking heads with so much to say, not saying much of substance, yet the substance abuse is carried...

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Room to Grow with our weaknesses and virtues in tandem and in tact.

Step up.Step back.Step aside.Step down.Slip up.Slip back.Slip aside.Slip down.Perhaps. Maybe. For a day. For an hour. For a minute. For a moment.Put the green eyes away. The gut punch ouch. Stop insinuating. Guessing. Surmising. Projecting.Take your whole self and put yourself in.Slip into the shoes of another person.No. I am sorry not the Cinderella story of Prince Charming and/or Al Bundy return your or lost shoe or glass slipper. Or a flip of the hair gesture of “rescue me.”Sad, but true, It is a fact that the end of the day,We really can...

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