Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Catch 22. The double bind double blind Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo” by Julie Ainger

”Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht”.Translation to come at the end of our lives.Translation may come too late.Translation may never come.Until it is too late.Sometimes, the best laid plans just blow up. Explode. Erode. With, but, by, for a code.Proverbs 16:8 (Ironic or conincidence the legal drivable US age is 16.) Anyway. Proverbs 16:8: Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.Hear. Hear! (wk) Or Hear ye. Hear ye!A man can become much too distracted while planning his steps. His next steps. Up steps. Down steps.Roll the di...

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“Vertical Integration, Corn stalking, Corn fiddling and Cotton Eye Joe” by Julie Ainger

The laundry is piling up.Up or down.Kids.Listen up.Especially ever important with the little bugs nearly implanted in our brains via a small rectangular device planted in our ears—for 8, 10, sometimes twelve hours a day.Please listen up and hear.Sometimes a path of life experience is experientially walked.And.I believe most people are good.And any person who kicks another when they are down deserves to sit alongside the devil in a cold and dark room, to sit down and think about what they have done. To be silently alone with their own thought...

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“The Walk of Life and the Journey to behold are time well spent” by Julie Ainger

Luck can be a funny thing.A supernatural thing.A tangible thing.Running up a hill on the way to nowhere can be exhaustingly refreshing too.Homophonally speaking, words don’t mean, people mean.With that being said, I challenge you. To exercise. Your soul. Question. Ask yourself. Or, just jump right in and see what happens. Go on, “mingle with the sinners” as Jesus had done. Why did he do this. Why did he “hang out”, “meet up” with them? To change them from themselves, their behavior? Why did he think about and wish righteousness for all?He wi...

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“How do you catch a leprechaun who has a stye in his eye👁?” by Julie Ainger

A smart person makes their own luck.Best beware.They are quick.They are slick.Can squeeze between a brick.They can slip through faster than a coin flip.Face to face.Place to PlaceSpace to space.Base to Base.Case to CaseLace to LaceMace to MacePace to PaceRace to RaceVase to VaseHow do we know? When we are out of order? How can we be so certain?We conducted an interview. Consulted a “source”. Here is a bit of the story: Just ask cabin boy D. Doyle who went in search of a Christmas tree after he landed in a mysterious, uncharted Irish island w...

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“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others, Romper Room and Bowling for Dollars” by Julie Ainger

Would June Cleaver like?Would Ward agree?To what?To zero-ing in on a person’s core, Their values-center.Of targeting. That core?Give it time. To make sense. Let it simmer. Even salivate. Before digesting. In the meantime. A story, or two, for you:Who, what, where, when, why, and how will we ever learn? Manners. Manners matter.To walk in a room and assess what needs to be done. Depending on the story, a blast from the past can oftentimes help.Franchised and syndicated from 1953-1994, Romper Room targeted preschoolers. (Humans aged five and un...

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“CET, Luner New Year and the Race to the bottom of the whisky and whine barrel o’ fun” by Julie Ainger

I cannot stand it either.The stories. The made up stories.The lies.The italicized lies.The ommitted liesThe lower case lies.The BOLDFACED lies.The “strughle”. The “streudel”. The “struggle”.Scrambled. Scramble. Scrammbled up and served on a silver platter.One must have a sense of humor for “it” to be “Funny”.And a race to the top bottoms out rather quickly when founded on shakey grounds.My apologies. Pardon my “tie-Pohs”. My spelling. Sometimes my inventive spelling gets the best of me. That plus the fact I call it how I see it. And I see it...

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“The Unspoken Maternal Language of The Mysterious Prodigy” by Julie Ainger

Welcome!To the New Year!To the Unbreakable BondOf Never Being Lost. Of never, ever losing sight of God.Because he is never lost. Because his Mother never lost sight of his magnificent influence on persons choosing to believe. In this world. In that world. In their world. In any world.He was, is and always shall be the Influencer of all Influencers!Of Peace that Passes Understanding.Welcome to the understanding. Welcome to the confusion. His Mother stood firm and strong. Solemnly mute because she never lost sight of his greatness(pf) Never lo...

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“Secrets. Troubles, struggles and the long and winding resolute wish list.” by Julie Ainger

The key is in the coming down.From the high.From the low.The bottom line is the stamina factor.Have you “got” what it “takes”.Visuals.Auditories.Touchy feelyTastey, DeliciousSmelly or StinkyIt all matters.Depending on where it matters.Depending on who it matters to.Depending on what the matter is.Depending on when it happened.Depending on why it happened.Depending on how it happened.Holidays have a way of bringing out the best and the worst in us. Of our behavior. Our hopes. Our dreams. Our intentions for the new year.The rest of the juggle ...

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“With a brother there is a warmth that is seldom ever spoken” by Julie Ainger

Sorry.A caveat.With a brother, there is a warmth that is seldom ever spoken—Except a Com Ed brother, a Con Ed brother, a Con Artist brother. Kinda guy.Some things never change.Sometimes hope runs out.Some times change runs out too.Some persons do not want to. Change. When did loving one self become so…..awful? So. Condign? So. One sided? So. Rhadamanthine?So. Uncompromising.An action word. A man of action that guy Rhadamanthine. Who made him the boss? Arbitrary and capricious? His practice of redundancy to the point of extinction? Illegitima...

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“The Privacy Sandwich and Candy Manupular ride the Rehab Revolving Door” by Julie Ainger

Well.Better “down” it.Fast and Furiously.Like, Yesterday.The end of the year is fast approaching and the rollovers may or may not occur. Depending on your plan, device and vice.Sadly, But Truly. We all have been under the bus, just didn’t know it, Couldn’t stop it, didn’t care, at the time, the list is endless. Until it hit us—Like a ton of bricks. The bill came or never came, we never saw it. Perhaps it was lost along with the check in the mail. So, we did what any responsible party does. We dined. We dashed. We left them in our dust. What ...

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“And unto us a wing man is born🙂 ” by Julie Ainger

It pays.To pay attention.In Sunday school.Religion class.Theology class.Catechism class.Evangelicalism class.New. Old. Testament.Before you race to book your next flight. “Outta here”The Good Book may not be on the NY Best Seller list. But it is a good book to consult. The consultant of all consultants.But the Bible, old, new, ratty looking, or catty looking is the ultimate best seller, the ultimate Good Book book whose lessons stand the test of time. Upon which much of our existence is based upon. Most of all, the Good Book canStand the tes...

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“Better ask Benjamin” by Julie Ainger

Better to ask Benjamin.When you do not know.You do not know.I do not know.How to observe.Everything.Would love to learn.Practice.Not preach.About what I have no clue about.Practice makes perfect.Or. So I am told.Let no one stand or sit on the sidelines.Retirement may not be all it is cracked up to be.It may be forced. Forced by nature. Forced by nurture.It may be a person who is a force of nature.A lie has speed but the truth has endurance.And to return.To the scene.Can be an act of bravery.Rather than, put our feet up. “Call it a day”. I’m ...

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“The White Stuff-Cookies, Powder, Flour, Power and High Tide. Crystals can be sparkly too.” by Julie Ainger

“Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em”Begging for your life.The trade of all trade?Your life for a life.For THE the drug to keep your life going…over others? Over. under…..It is here. The magical time where the calendar pages start to turn along with the tables—one can only hope. Gotta rush a quick text to Santa Claus asking for “one more” It is here. Even this Yuletide time of generous spirit of the holidays.Stay alert.Keep your friends close.Keep your enemies closer.The lines become blurred with the delivery of the goods, the drugs on the mules.And it...

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“A lie has speed but truth has endurance. ” by Julie Ainger

Words of wisdom by Havelock Ellis.A present of wisdom.An unwrapped present.Opening up.Closing up.The anticipation.It IS a process.Nature versus Nuture.Sometimes.Oftentimes, this end of the year stuff is for the birds.Other times. It may be just what the doctor ordered.For you.The tonic of all tonics.☺️Whether it take eight minutes, eight days, or eighty days, or eighty years to unpack. The gift for us all, God willing will end in some kinda box.Will it be with tears of joy.Or tears of unanswered, unanswerable grief.Pardon me for cracking mys...

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“Swindle, Spindle, Dwindle and Pop!!!!” by Julie Ainger

Cat calls.Rrrrrrrrr. Or Purrrrrrr.House calls.The good ole days.The days wherein they bring the “shot” to you.Or am I confused with that of the Bartender.I forget.Maybe too many shots.Maybe not enough shots.I forgot.Happy is as Happy Does.Sick is as Sick Does.Take your pick.You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you cannot pick your friends nose👃What is grosser than gross?That is.Grosser than gross.🤢Time for a spelling test! Hurray! Hurray! This actually may be on the SAT on Sat morning…….Best you show up having studies your ...

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