Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Drugs, Thugs, Mugs. And shots.” by Julie Ainger

At least, the death panels are alive and kicking.Well, the conversation is certainly changing for the watered-down-and-water-logged worse. And that does nothing to make it righter than before.Yep. Somebody’s fingerprints ARE all over it. But whose? The sad part is that “this” is really nothing new. And has gotten person-specifically worse.And. No. I don’t approve.The stakes are too high because the steaks are too high. And the steaks are too high because the stakes are too high.I just wish I was good looking because that would solve everythi...

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“Vigilant or Vigilante? Be Not Afraid.” by Julie Ainger

Know the difference.Why?Not to be too dramatic. There is a ginormous, gigantic, huge, large, big, bigger very important difference. And it is best to know it. Otherwise while exhaustion overtakes you—however it does—the Lord may pass you by.No. Not because you are bad. He just figures you have done your work and assumes you believe you “deserve” your sleep. It is all a plan of His glorious lesson and lessons. He teaches us everyday, but sometimes we are caught napping. And that is ok.What is the difference? Of fear and strength? Inattentive ...

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“The Scales of Justice and the Tipping Point” by Julie Ainger

Practice makes perfect.Or strange bed fellows. Depends on the situation. Or. how one looks at “it”. Debate is good. Debate is necessary. Debate is needed. Some may argue that there are two sides to every story. Some may argue that rules are made to be broken. Some simply like to argue.True.But. Ambiguity has it benefits and detractors. It largely and often depends on how one looks at it. The truth. On the one hand, is the truth like a matter to be chewed up and spit out? On the other hand is truth like a matter to be taken seriously. The aur...

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“Cash for Clunkers, Crops, Candy or Dunkers. Wiserly or Miserly?” by Julie Ainger

Would you believe? Can you imagine?There was a time when I had green eyes. But it is not what you may think. Thinking I had to change, alter, improve “Me” I embarked on a journey to change something about me.My eyes. To be exact. What couldn’t I see at the time?Wanna know what happened? I literally and figuratively scratched my own eyes out.Ouch.As the story goes: This is non-fiction. Actually happened. Why would I lie? IE. I am not kidding about this. In my youth, having just turned the legal age of eighteen (18). My older sister who was ph...

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“Gone but not forgotten” by Julie Ainger

Challenge accepted.Listening and understanding a wise person is just darn invigorating. Like a mini baptism. Haven’t yet done the hard work, but ready, willing and able to put in the time. And do the Hard Time. The hard way.The Hards Times. Are what make us. But what about the loved ones who left here before us. Do you ever stop to think about what they would think about the,Now. The here and now.Stepping up to the plate whether it be inside, outside, full or finished with crumbs is always worth a second thought. Not in the interest of the d...

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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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