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Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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Any good solutions while learning to trust the gut.

Julie Ainger

Boxes. Eventually, we all will or have received one of these. Some of us may choose to take our eternal rest in this container six feet under in the ground. Until the final ceremonial Goodbye. Some may choose a smaller, quaint box for the final ceremonial Goodbye. Boxes come in all shapes and sizes. Same as problems. Boxes have many meanings. Same as boxes. There are boxers both human and worn on humans’ bodies. Box it up is a phrase used when gathering things together. Boxes are used to protect and secure. Boxed out is a term often ...

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The Dance of the Nuance Fairy

Julie Ainger

Precision. Perfection. Perception. Process. Interpretation. The important difference(s) between splitting a hair. Crossing the fine line. Seeing crystal clear. Numb the pain. Close your eyes. It will go away. Fall asleep it will go away. Escape. Here is better than there. And Vice Versa. Splitting the difference. The crucial importance of not using and knowing what the difference is in using what and who as a bargaining chip. Which chip is the most important ingredient? Better start stock piling them now. Sooner rather than l...

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Lessons of a lifelong learner

Julie Ainger

Which came first, the chicken or the egg.Who’s on first.?Better late than never,Better never than late.Pick me Pick me! (WHO wants to be the last one picked.)He who laughs last laughs alone.Good times.Bad times.The best of times.What do these phrases all have in common?Time.Time management.The perception that we can change time.After all, numbers do not lie, right?The best present is to be present in the present. Time standing still.Sounds like a good place to start.Clockwise motion. Moving forward. Moving ahead. How do you think an optimist...

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The Modern Telephone

Julie Ainger

Remember the old-fashion game of telephone? The information services game where kids sit in a circle and the first player begins conversation with a secret or some other juicy tidbit about a person, friend or acquaintance. Someone in their new(s) orbit.The adult version gossip game being the equivalence of a National Enquirer or People Magazine. Mag Rags. There was no board to play on, no real tangible skill required. No strings or cups allowed. No handwritten, typed or notes allowed. Definitely pictures, drawn or photographed not attached. ...

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Or Is It?

Julie Ainger

“Well, that was dramatic?.,!”Precarious times call for precarious measures. In 1711, Joseph Addison pondered in Spectator Magazine. He opined precarious as “depending on the will or pleasure of another.” This generational genius written over 300 years ago set in the prefix of Latin origin which traces meaning(s) to entreaty or prayer. Well. That is a mouthful.Depending on your will. Little if any room for a consolation prize to say the least. Either feast or famine, up or down. Win or lose. Where is the troubled middle.? Which way to go. Whi...

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The mall allure

Julie Ainger

I know it when I see it. Joann thought. She lacked the excitement and skills of shopping around, the allure of the mega, strip, double deck, high rise, low rise shopping mall is lost on me. The back and forth of the food court lobby never seemed neither engaging or entertaining. The same is true of online malls as well. Too much clicking and not enough bricking. The tracking of Joann’s Stardruncks latte, frap double flip whip order from click to pick is not a way She would prefer to spend the day. Whether there is a portion that drives its...

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