Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Inflection Infection” by Julie Ainger

Accidents? Or. Accidence? There are no accidents. Or oopsies. Or oops.’es. Maybe we are all dense. I know I am guilty of stupid sometimes.Grammar has become that branch of linguistics that deals with a language’s inflections (Accidence), other structures of words (Morphology), it’s phonetic system(Phonology), and the arrangement of its word in a sentence (Syntax).Ah. I fondly remember the glory days of a sentence. “The cat in the hat.” “The dog eats a bone”. My apologies. Faded off for a second there.Late Latin “Accidentia”- “categories appl...

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“Common Core and/or Core Common.” by Julie Ainger

Person Specific.Not to be bombastic here. A term coined a long time ago. Alongside a person I grew up with. Who I walked along side with and was trying to figure it out. So I could figure it out. Over compensation of the lesson is never good. But where to start? Where to begin? But. Hey. We all forget. So in the interest of remembering the good versus evil of dwelling. Let’s pay the conception a visit.Belief in origins that are good, is just, well good. Naïveté is the sincerest form of honesty. The problem is, it gets pounded into the ground...

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“Tempting tendencies. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. ” by Julie Ainger

Imitation or Imitatio is to copy or replicate another’s behavior. It is a form of social learning that leads to the “development of traditions, and ultimately culture.”Imitation can be applied in many contexts, ranging from animal training to politics. In general the term refers to conscious behavior. (WK)Subconscious imitation is termed “mirroring”. According to Webster, a Copy Cat” is one who imitates or adopts the behavior or practices of another.”Oops gotta grab my camera as he ran back inside, yelling to his sister as he grabbed his gea...

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“Mind over Matter. The Gray Grey Area. ” by Julie Ainger

Who. What. Where. When. Why. How.It matters.The majority of experienced, well read persons remember a historical person such as Mr. Mandela. No denying the significance of the prompt model. Mr. Mandela. Prompt for his times. A prompt for our times.To say the least, Mandela expressed as a person of strong conviction, that ultimately led to his conviction. Because he held strongly held convictions. My apologies, my own mind wanders when I “say” this run on sentence.Convictions, simple to him. But. Seen as too complicated to many. Because they ...

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“White light. Bright Lite” by Julie Ainger

There is a time to every purpose under heaven. As you grow, learn and mature, you will seek and find that the adults in your world get things wrong sometimes. Confusion will overtake your thoughts and sometimes your actions, too.Speaking mathematically, we are the sum of our actions. Every single one of us. Finite-tally. So. What to do. What to do. Where will you go to “Figure it out”.There is a world of knowledge to be learned on the playgrounds of our youth.The Self. The Me. The Myself and The I. It is simple but not easy. You see, or may ...

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“Vet. Vet. Vetted. The Word Jungle Jumble Mumble and Vice and Versa.” by Julie Ainger

Effort Really Counts.Again!Nice try.Effort Really Counts!I guess.Do you?Guess.About. The Swing. The Swinger. The Singer. The Roundabout. Direction of beneficial determination?Depends on which side of the road you find yourself driving on.I suppose. To the: Many.Few. Most? Or does it Depend.Depend.Deepend. Where you are, where you sit, stand, where you toss “things”. How much cushion you have on the back end. How do you define “things”. (Caveat-People are not things”,) Medical, Psychological, Physical “parts” of things as you may wish them to...

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“Flushapalooza!……Double duty and going down the wrong pipe🙃” by Julie Ainger

Listen up younger ones.Experience is the best teacher.Really.Why?The older you are, the better it works.Believe it or not.A wiser than me, happen- to-be-older person once told me to:Believe in something. So.I listened.And never choked again. The trick is is knowing how to get there without choking, tripping and falling on our faces. Which is really a polite way of saying:Indifference + Irrelevance equals a dangerous combination.As you mature, it will benefit your maturation to NOT live in the moment. Counterintuitive, I know. Advice worth ch...

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“The “Is m’s”of “His’m’s” Racism, Favoritism and Other Idiosyncrasies” by Julie Ainger

Arrogance headlined our world again today.In response. An ocean of heart broken tears to prove it. Make no mistake. Please do not be confused with an ocean of tears as sowing seeds of division.No matter how hard we try, pretend, or even pray, please remember.You are not God. I am not God. We are not God.So please, can we stop pretending we are.Sometimes, it feels as if we are constantly at war.With ourselves.With our own irrelevance.With our own denial.Incessantly attempting, at all modern and real time costs, to prove our “metal”, “mettle”,...

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“The Buffet of Self Serving Nonsense” by Julie Ainger

My heart aches.I don’t know about you.Service is not universal. Intervention? Is not universal. It may be liked, but it is not universal. Over stepping bounds is gross and it is humanly negligent. So is stepping all over it. And it smells bad, too.One thing for sure, human and civil liberties are progressively heading down the loo. When we stoop to continually use (a form of service, mind you) a child as our spring board to happiness? And then google (verb, action word) the name? Is this,Advertising in the year 2022? Marketing in the New Wor...

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“The Flip Side verses the Blind Side & Child’s play game of Tug of War” by Julie Ainger

You wanna play? You wanna go? Bring it on?!How DID we humans used to solve our problems? There is no denying strife and its existence. It exists. Big and small. How DID we resolves the disputes of our day(s). Back in the good ole days, the ancient times, of say, the late ‘90’s early 2,000’s.Seems like a lifetime ago. When civility attempted existence. Outside. Inside. Now. Everything seems so Upside down. In many ways, shapes and forms.Have we become so, bored and detached from reason and logic we have resorted to well, this? Are we blind, u...

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“Second hand smoke, or second hand spoke?” by Julie Ainger

Each day we have a chance, chances. A new opportunity, opportunities. To get stuff right. All stuff. Any stuff.Life offers us endless possibilities to start anew and stop a bad. Like riding a bicycle, hop on, begin peddling, the spoke go round and round and round and round and round.. you get my drift. Why cause a rift?Yeah. Small and seemingly insignificant, the spoke on your bike’s wheels are quiet and out of the way. Almost providing a thankless job. No one notices them when everything is working well, but without proper set up and operat...

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“Lights, Camera, Literacy Inaction!!” by Julie Ainger

Well. Here we are. Almost as planned and almost as expected. Have we met and exceeded the expectations?Perhaps. We cannot even push the blame of the camera filled backlash of these times on Hollywood. For the most part the individuals who have and had a choice to journey there and live there are, at the least, trained. Actors. Trained. To do what they do. For our entertainment. (?) Some may debate that specific point. But that is not why we are “here”. Now.Reminder: Just because you can does. It mean you should?In the interest of comprehensi...

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“To oblate or not to oblate. That is the question. ” by Julie Ainger

“To be or not to be” asked William S.The floor was open to debate. And so it began. And it got ugly. Really ugly. Years, and years and years and years, so many years of ugly. Ugly debate that until today forced the hands of us to show our true colors. Good to know. The origin, that is.Not one of us peasants and individuals were immune. From the ugly, the question, nor the answer. And many times, we showed our own ugly and true selves.Freedom took the win today. Here. In the land of the free and the home of the brave. And brave the decision m...

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“Separating the Color Blind from the Men from the Boy’s……..Coat tails.” by Julie Ainger

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. For the opportunity. For this space.Props for promoting honest debate and thought. Mostly. Independently. For the opportunity. Mind, body and writing realizes the risk of exposing emotions, feeling and thoughts. And then to publish them for some to see.It is probably risky to offer an “air”wave to potentially prove a right and perhaps attempt to sensibly improve an old sad wrong, an old sad narrative. And also prove an opportunity to right a right and with additional write. A re-write.In journal times used to...

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“ Hit for the cycle. A Hat trick. Two sides of the same coin.” by Julie Ainger

Ok.I tried. Gave it. My best shot.With the headline(r) That is.Did it grab your attention enough to read on…..minus any “typos”, corrections—which used to be performed by educated, trained, four year institutioned educated literacy loving professionals who work for dough, not for show. Professionals. The opposite of today’s institutionalization of modern culture wannabes and amateurs.Nor the “editors” of tic tak.Whose color and texture of skin was not nor never procedurally institutionalized.Yet. Here we are.Or is it.. Drive for show, putt f...

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