Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Game. Set. Match. And. Other Algorithmic Cheats. ” by Julie Ainger

There are no shortcuts.The only way through, is through it.Through what?Life’s obstacle course.Your choice.Your mission.Should you choose.To accept:DISCLAIMER:[Next 1000written” words of an old fashioned duddy🤭]Nothin “racy” going on here.Thank you for spending a moment of your time, if you choose to turn and run.Best wishes! Really!Once upon a time🙂.It happened.What?In the moment, unsure exactly.However, for some strange and wonderful reason.Did not overthink it.With the ever present mindfulness of a top ten list of motivations and intenti...

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“Unflappable” by Julie Ainger

With the innocence of a child.All things are possible!Hurray!SimplicityGoodnessKindesssGetting along.Sharing. (The good!)BINGO!When we are young the lists of possibilities are endless!Yes! Endless!There is no such thing as a small act of kindness.The Kindness List:Teach one or more classmates something new:Teach one or more classmates something new.Let someone have a turn before you.Practice being a good listener.Push in someone’s chair.Tell a joke or make someone laugh😃Pick up at least three pieces of trash.Make friends with the new student...

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“Fine Motor Skills. The Pencil Drop.” by Julie Ainger

Fordey just could not hang on anymore.Began to think a name change was the best remedy. No longer capable to hang on to the tiny thin apparatus.The one that channels the action.The hand writing had been on the wall, the walls, for some time. Some would say an eternity. Spray painted, painted painted.Graphitti says a lot about the state of the world. Here. There. Everywhere. The expressive language—so to speak— on the walls and under passes, the bricks that have not seen the light.Offensive to some.Otherworldly to others.Art on a landscape. W...

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“Hello Digesting Duck.” by Julie Ainger

“amicus menus inimicus inimical mei”Translation:The enemy of my enemy is my friend.The mirror.The reflection.The truth teller.We may even argue with its evidence.When we do not like what we see. When we prefer someone or something different than what is staring right back at us.We blame everyone else.But.Ourselves.You see. We are much too important in this world. We are much too important and we must keep our obstinance going. Our obsinances of what we think, believe, behave—most of all behave.Until.One day.Bam.The lights go out. The door sl...

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“Unconscionable Conscience and other Scientific Hyberbole ” by Julie Ainger

Everything was so grand!Everything was so big!Everything was so much!Too much, actually.Too much.Bigger isn’t always better.Expansion for the sake of expansion does not a school make.Perhaps what was really occurring is the schooling of:Somebody else.Tired games=tired gains.Expansion can do this.Reminder:An expansion of the heart.Takes time.Takes your time.Takes my time.Do you succumb to the “powers that be” not the powers that is He?Are you free?Do you succumb to be numb?Do you prefer to spread the self thin or spread the self wide?Large an...

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“Specificity+Ambiguity+ Preferences=Cha, Cha, Cha.” by Julie Ainger

💃🕺🏻🕺🏻💃💃🕺🏻🕺🏻💃💃🕺🏻🕺🏻💃…….One, two, Cha- cha,-cha.Three, four, Cha-cha-cha.Tolerance. Cha-cha-chaIntolerance. Cha-cha-chaShuffle ‘em any way you like.Any way you “prefer”.🎰🪪💵💳Oink.Meow,RoarChirp,Too.Tick tick the clock rocks and the explosion occurs,Like, Wow, Man, Yesterday.Just make it up as you go along?Fake it til you make it?At this “stage” of the game.And.It is safe to say the game is staged,The answer is anybody’s guess.Anybodys.Everybodys.Anyone.Someone.Etcetera, etcetera.Cha-cha-cha.Who gets a “pass.?”The answer: Babies. Puppies. And all...

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“The three c’s and seas of tendencies and dependencies” by Julie Ainger

Concession or concession.Consolation or constellation.It may not take a village.But.It does take a community.Of liked minded individuals who hash, rehash and hopefully not dash from the truth when it becomes too,Uncomfortable.Uncomfortable truths.Uncomfortable facts.The truth hurts.The facts hurt.Vices.Are they designed to keep us in line.Or keep us out of the line.The line line.The fine line.The wrinkly lines.😏The linear equations manipulated in the form seams, lies and wide open spaces.Wide open spaces.Bounce. Bounce. Bounce.= Thunder. Thu...

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“WIFM and patterns🙂” by Julie Ainger

Hello! My name is “WIFM”And. I loves cookies.Love. Loves. Love.Cookies.Lots and lots of cookies.Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of cookies.The minimizer in my core tells me, tells me how and just how much to push it to get one.What?You ask.A delicious cookie, of course.🍪I should mention, my name has nothing to do with radioactivity😉.I was a born leader.A born leader.I learned, long ago, that the difference between me now, and me five years from now is what I have read and who I have met.So. Pleased to meet you! Very pleased...

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“Human Flaws.” by Julie Ainger

Two wrongs never make a right.Human flaws + heavy hearts+ hatred + pride = noise.The festival of the dance becomes a trip up, fall down fest.A cannot stand on your own two feet fest. And the one true person who has your back is nowhere to be seen.Nowhere to be seen.With heavy hearts.Kids. We kindly ask you:Please don’t give up on adults.They do not know what they doI get it.I got it.We look up to adults.We expect them to have ALL the answers.Be the actual fighters and fire fighters we need when the chips are down. When we are down. Downcast....

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“The Fine Line of Sparrowgrass” by Julie Ainger

Jobey.Took a long walk.He was trying to “figure things out”. Although just a young boy in this world, he wished to bring peace about the world we live in.Jobey was a person with an old soul who lived life with a “big picture view.” He obsessively often wondered. He often asked hard questions. He wondered silently as he walked and wondered when hard answers bring about awakened and meaningful change.Hard questions:”Why?”Why do bad things happen to good people?Why do good things happen to bad people?”How?”How does one person go about making th...

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““Train for ill and not for good.” ” by Julie Ainger

Life isn’t fair.Our world contains much good. And. it contains much less good than ill.(wjb)Hey. I do not make the rules. I just try to follow them😣.Sometimes one’s own company is the safest place to be.Aim high?Shoot low.What do you think?I don’t know.Mithy knew.What to do.What to do.What did he do? He made himself immune. One could say, he took matters into his own hands. One may think Mithy to be radical. Mithy made himself immmune to poison by swallowing small doses everyday.**DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME** NO. NOPE. NO.!!!!!Instead of steali...

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“Brain Cramp” by Julie Ainger

Which came first?The chicken or the egg?The stupid or the stupor?”Keep me in a daydream, keep me going strong, you don’t want to save me, sad is my song.” (sw)Writings on the wall.Graphitti?Writing on the arm.Tatoo?Excessive fear?Losing my noodles.Or.Loosing my noodle😳”When you believe in things, you don’t understand than you suffer”. (sw)Which came first?The chicken or the egg?The stupid or the stupor.Sometimes.We.Simply.Do it to ourselves.Routine can turn into ritualistic bad habits fast. Too fast. The rewind button in our brains malfuncti...

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“Time+Consistency+Simplicity= The Soul” by Julie Ainger

Remember: We are all children of God.Reminder: We are all children of God.When we, at times, choose to act, perform an act, say a word, blurt a word, sing a song, dance a jig, read a good book, it all matters in the grand scheme of life.Perhaps, the most important:Walk the Walk.And in our beautiful world, on our beautiful earth, means differences may be what drive our choices.Only peace and harmony should drive the motivations.Talk is cheap in the mouths of the wicked.Whitsuntide like there is no tomorrow.Dance like there is no tomorrow.Jig...

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“Tolerance, Awokeness, Decisions, Decisions. ” by Julie Ainger

How much is too much?Tired,Retired,Of it all,Are you?I know.How you may feel.Everything old IS new again.Everything new IS old again.Reverse or reversion. The same thing?Going back to old ways can be as revealing as the path itself.The treatment path.The pedagogy of learning is not for the weak, the weak minded or weak hearted.Willingly, not willingly provided and taken. What you may decide to “take.” Or take it or leave it. Therapeutically speaking has fans, detractors, too. Popping the proverbial pill of sanity becomes the self-medical dec...

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“Shhhhhhhhhh🫢Is silence golden?” by Julie Ainger

I would a if I could a.Plugged my ears.My friend invited me to dinner.There is a difference between ironic and “funny.”I think.I dunno.Yum.As excited as I was.I remembered, “Keep calm, call mom”.You see, for a kid, like me, being invited to stay at a friends for dinner was a big deal. All the other kids were doing it, so once I was asked, I was on cloud nine.My Mom said it was ok, but I was a little scared. To stay longer at my friend’s house was a lesson in patience. You see, I think the real name of this family was not the Lawrence Family ...

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