Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Opposites attract. Opposites attack. Earn your stripes.” by Julie Ainger

I love dogs.Pretty much describes the tone of today’s message, huh.The barriers.Barriers to the unification message.Sorry.Cats run wild for a reason.Even the Cowardly Lion was required to show, to prove his “stripes”.Of courage. As a valiant fighter for the least of these. As a valiant fighter of self doubt. As a valiant fighter of self-fear that made him feel inadequate.To reveal one’s beliefs, sentiments, or character, especially through one’s behavior. Without hiding the struggle. Sharing the struggle. Owning the struggle. Admitting the s...

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“Slow to Anger” by Julie Ainger

Mean him good, or mean him harm.Anger in its time and placeMay assume a kind of grace.It must have some reason in it,And not last beyond a minute.If to further lengths it go,It does into malice grow.’Tis the difference that we see’Twixt the serpent and the bee.If the latter you provoke,It inflicts a hasty stroke,Puts you to some little pain,But it never stings again.Close in tufted bush or brakeLurks the poison-swelled snakeNursing up his cherished wrath;In the purlieus of his path,In the cold, or in the warm,Mean him good, or mean him harm,...

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“The run on sentence😏” by Julie Ainger

The beautiful and beauty-filled run on sentence.Happy Hump Day. Happy Wednesday. For those who observe, “Happy Ash Wednesday”.”Happy Leadership Day”. If you observe Choose to observe While you still have the freedom to do so will you do so Will you stop to take a breath and stop and smell the roses along the way or will you choose to stop look and listen to that which is all around you and before you after you behind you in front of you and still find the sanity to sanely touch the life of another with the sole express intent of being and br...

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“Protecting Privacy. My Mind Map. NOT Yours. ” by Julie Ainger

Message from a self-described privacy” freak”:Nice try.Props for the idea.Keep tell in’ ya, it is dangerous to eek, squeak, sneek reparations into every day, daily living.I do not admire your effort. I am constantly amazed by your continual and blatant disregard for the truth.Whew.A lot on the plate. (GB)A lot to swallow.Going down in lumps.Maybe coming up that way too😳.Yuck. Ick.Can you say riding a bicycle backwards?😵Good luck.My suspicious side “goes to a place” ponders, thinks even that you are randomly checking my mind map, mindfulness ...

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“1+1=2 ” by Julie Ainger

Walking the balance beam of life🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏼👨‍🦽🧑‍🦽🧑🏼‍🦯👩🏼‍🦯If life were only that simple.Sometimes life can feel counterintuitive.Persons, places, things can feel quite paradoxical, confusing.Enigmatic even.Absurd.Odd.Mysterious.Catch-22Or they can sometimes feel perfectly:Normal.Standard.Accurate.Certain.Truthful.Understanding usual ness regularity.Sometimes worry, fret and nervousness replace calm, order and peace.Reparations or Recompense? For some high and mighty thinking individuals it takes over and becomes the sole focus. And then:All hell ...

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“Please and Thank You are the magic words😃🧩🙂🧩??” by Julie Ainger

Ask permission.Gain a morsel of respect.Ask permission.Show a morsel of respect.Ask permission.Gain a lesson in respect.Ask permission.Show a habit of respect.Ask permission.Gain awareness of another.Ask permission.Show awareness of another.Ask permission.Learn lessons about another.Ask permission.Share lessons about another.Ask permission.Sharing may just become caring.Ask permission.Caring may just become sharing.Ask permission.Avoid stalking.Ask permission.Promote relationship building.Ask permission.Nurture the good.Ask permission.Avoid ...

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“Romance + Intangible = Grateful Heart” by Julie Ainger

Phew.Whew.We all survived the day devoted to “Love”.It was.The day before yesterday.In case you forgot.For some it is a day of dread—the expectations, the opportunities, the gains, the losses.For others it is a day to begin to strengthen, repair, renew.How ever one approaches the sentiment, the day is devoted to something we know and feel but oftentimes cannot describe adequately.Love.What the heck is it anyway?A feeling?A state of mind?A yearning?An aversion?I wish I knew so I can tell you.What it is.The best I can do is provide you with ex...

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“Tug-o-War” by Julie Ainger

Dump and Go?Not quite. That simple.Baggage has a way of ball and chaining you to the past.A result of your own “doing”. Or not doing.Sorry.Even if an when you hide behind cousin A, B, or C.That is a fantasy land may be best for you to reject, to awaken from.Have an awakening of sorts.It may be too late for you.Thank goodness you connect via Facebook, huh.?Your life blood.Good for you.And all the best, too.Enter the tug.Enter the war.Enter the tug,of,all wars.Just when you assumed we were not looking.You assumed incorrectly.My apologies.For y...

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“Stuff” by Julie Ainger

Want Ad:Wanted: The very best friend in the world.Requirements: Able to handle a multitude of your “stuff”, without batting an eye. Without turning away. Able to leap tall buildings of the chip on your shoulder in a single bound.And then does it.Able to read your cues without question/questions.And then does it.Able to share your sad feelings with you.And then does it.Able to radiate smelly and stinky, hairy and grungy, unjudge-ey non words, deeds, actionsAnd then share it with you.The sentiment. Of taking on with you the “stuff” that is you...

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“Do not be stubborn” by Julie Ainger

Like a small child.Who will not take “No” for an answer.Grimaced face, crossed arms in front, stomped foot on the ground.”I want more.”The child knows, as a child of God that the Master knows. Best.More of the good stuff is always worth the stomp fight. A small child simply doesn’t know how to properly pray and ask just yet.Good stuff:KindnessHelperListenerServantBad stuff:IgnoranceIgnoreGreedTaker”He was faithful to God, who chose him to do this work, just as Moses was faithful in his work in God’s whole house.God’s whole house.A man who bu...

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“I scream. You scream. We all scream for more scream? Or Space?” by Julie Ainger

Attachment theory.De-tachment theory.Have you checked the corners of your own closet lately😳? Might be a good time to take stock of your stuff. Before you scream out loud.What is so important today.May be forgotten tomorrow.Sad.The effort.The memories.The momento of a moment in time.Collections collected in a moment in time.Memories retrieved along the way.Of a full life, a life well lived.What’s the “diff” you ask?About possessing possessions?The insidious desire to possess another person and their possession? Their possessions?Scarey stuff...

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“Reparational Repair? Ableism. Ageism. Autism. Racism and the deep change required from within US.” by Julie Ainger

There certainly is“enough” to go around.Enough hate.Enough love.Enough blank stared, wrinkled skin, catatonia, color coded codes of potential implementation to “take care of it”, to “take care of you”.Suddenly we find our collective selves attempting to out do one another with the trash talk of all trash.Trash talking.An insidious way to “get into our heads” to force us to believe we are less than or un equal to.Reparations do not repair this. Reparations do not repair this type of behavior. Hand outs do not either.A deep dive into one’s own...

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“Lip Service, Moral Inconsistencies and “Bagging a White Guy”” by Julie Ainger

Ok. Here goes.As the lines of the lies continue to blur your beautiful and innocent minds.I am compelled.First: To earn your trust.Second. Hear your thoughts.Third: Respect your thoughts.Fourth: Tackle the demons together.There is such a “thing” as common sense. Really. Usually that comes in the form of a trusted parental-like unit who by words, deeds and actions teaches by example the differences between right and wrong.Right and wrong exists. Really. Truly, Madly. Deeply.The sooner you learn to trust the trust of trusting your inner self. ...

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“Better eat your veggies!🥦🌽🥒🫑🥔” by Julie Ainger

“Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.”There is something quite beautiful and meaningful. About sitting at the table. Sharing life, sharing stories. And one does not even have to be a good or even great cook.🙂Sometimes in life, the process can be the punishment. We have choices. We do not always choose the most loving option. We blame it on youth or ignorance. We go ahead and “do it” anyway.We should stop, look and listen to what we are doing. At what?Wonder and love at the process of cooking up a ...

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“Button Pushing.” by Julie Ainger

Cute as a button.Cute as a bug’s ear.Did you know? Cute was a shortening of the word acute for “sharp witted and clever”.I did not know……learn something new everyday!Clever.ShrewdIngenious, tooNot outwardly beautiful, drop dead gorgeous, bombshell-ey, “hot”.But.Cute.Small things are usually cute.Bunnies are cute.Small children are oftentimes considered cuteA button is small, is round, so I guess could be considered cute.Although I know a person who as a small child had an aversion to buttons. But it wasn’t what you may think. This person had...

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