Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Wheel. Deal. Stand Alone. Lead, Follow. Get Out of the Way” by Julie Ainger

Words to live by.Actions to take.Words that lie.Go with the fake.Still. Your choice. For the time being.Trust me.It is ok to stand alone.Actually.It is good to stand alone🧑🏼‍🦯👩🏼‍🦯As long as you can stand alone.It is not for the weak.It is not for the weary.It is not for the fearful.It is not for the unbalanced.It is not for the doubtful.It is not for the hedgers.It is not for the worriers.It is not for the joiners.It is not for the grippers.It is not for the gripers.It is not for those easily prone to stress.It is not for the scaredy cat.It ...

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“Walking into Walls in the Land of Vice Versa” by Julie Ainger

Stop the Presses!The kids are still watching.Have you watched, lately?What the kids are watching?We had better get a move on it, and fast.Before we know it, the kids are grown. And the chances to right the wrongs, just like the statute of limitations, are left in the dust, the dust bowl, with the dust mites.Lessons left untaught are lessons never learned.And.That is not fair.To the kids.They deserve better that a bug virus leading their way. Leading and leasing their futures. What with all the virus-borne stipulations, shots and the lots.Wha...

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“The piercing sound of the ringing in my ears” by Julie Ainger

It was loud. So loud.My head exploded.Life altered.Piercing.And it followed us from path to path.Chasing almost.The new journey began. But. How to move forward from the mess left behind? In the moment, there was too much repair, too much restore and renovation to be undertaken.In an instant life can return to bad paths and bad habits. And while attempting to dig out, to get out from under the muck……New surroundings can sometimes help. A new path. New journeys, new ventures, new life, new friends, new jobs, new spouses, new siblings, new hous...

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“False Teachers who Play the God Card, Practice Ableism, and Bear False Witness” by Julie Ainger

Spies Like Us (ct,bs)Like.Even,Love.Sometimes for you to watch. Us. So.Bring It On.My personal fashion wardrobe does not contain any kind of straight jacket, however you might be shopping for one real soon. That is if you continue to pretend that people matter. Most importantly, if you pretend that God matters. Play the God card. And then continue to behave in devilish ways. If you keep up your behavior. Paranoid or not. The double middle finger. (act) Right back at ya. My paranoia justified by your mounted and mounting lies.Steadiness comes...

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“The logic pretzel: hamstringing, knee capping and rough houghing.” by Julie Ainger

Step One: Lay your cards on the table.Step Two: Convincing conviction is a process.Step Three: No hedge.Step Four: No pledge.Messages can jam. Up or down. Lay your cards on the table immediately helps credibility. There are far too many ways to stop a situation, a circumstance, a deal dead in its tracks.Stamina notwithstanding.Convincing another person to think as you may think takes a special kind of skill. More importantly, so does telling the truth. No hedge results in steadfast conviction. And convincing conviction in and of itself is th...

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“The Ugliness of Villainy, Anomie, Turpitudy and the Sisters who were” by Julie Ainger

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead.The Wicked Witch is finally dead.Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is dead.Wake up, you sleepy headRub your eyes, get out of bedWake up the Wicked Witch is deadShe’s gone where the goblins goBelow, below, below, yo hoLet’s open up and sing and ring the bells outDing Ding ‘the merry-ohSing it high, sing it lowLet them know the Wicked Witch is dead! (mm)How?The house fell on her.Now.What.Her legacy lives on in the sisters, Villainy, Anomie, and Turpitudy. They will stop at nothing in order to get what they want, get what t...

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“Life seen through the eyes of fear ” by Julie Ainger

We become warped and wrapped up in the narrative. Even tangled too. Our own narrative. Of another’s narrative. The truth as we see it as informs our every waking breath. Our every action, reaction becomes the breath we draw on to make it through another day.To figure it out. The flips in our stomachs endlessly and exhaustingly asking our heart to please figure it out. Ignoring what we see in others and what others see in us. Desperate. So desperate for inner peace of mind we embark on a potentially fatal journey to prove we are right and eve...

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“Both. Didn’t know it at the time. Still feel the same way now.” by Julie Ainger

There we sat, looking at one another, wondering what the heck just happened. Trying to process it and at the same time smelling the stink that it was. Unable or unwilling to sputter out the baloney that was occurring and at the same time fear and a bit of dread. The thinking, is this what it is? Do we have to go along with the program……It is what it is?Well. That may be true. It is what it is. But in that moment, together we unwittingly and unknowingly decided to change it. Together.We had no plan.We had no diagram.We had no notes.We had no ...

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“Clashing Faiths” by Julie Ainger

We do faith a disservice in laying at its doorstep the fundamental causes of faction. (wb). Faith contributes to the form and the content of the ideals that guide the aspirations we harbor for our own lives, and it affects the way we regard and behave with respect to others. (wb)If you are insecure in your faith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s invitation to enlighten yourself and take a walk may help. You. Do you feel not yet ready, not focused enough to come to self discretion and self choice?A child looks to the adults in the room for guidance-...

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“Batchmate, Benchmate, Check mate, True Freshman, New Maths and the Double Standard(s)” by Julie Ainger

My Favorite Teacher.He was not much for chess. My favorite teacher was a touch better at checkers. Even better than checkers, my teacher had an incredible, almost other worldly knack for ensuring my life was special to him, in his eyes.It has been said that our first teachers are our parents. And then all of the sudden,Life happens.Along the way, we pick things up. Behaviors. Good ones. Bad ones. Things that work. Things that don’t work. A pawn here, a space there. A pawn which has no friendly pawns in adjacent files is an isolated pawn. The...

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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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