Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Desperate Remedies” by Julie Ainger

Desperate Remedies of Remedial Reminders of Reset and Redial.Why does it feel like we have been here before?But worse.Isn’t progress designed for, not determined to be, a forward moving machine? A forward moving directional way of life?A challenge, of course.Challenging, without question.But.When the tough questions are not addressed appropriately, the troubled middle becomes troubled indeed.Messed in the head even.Maybe.Messed up in the head.With certainty.Few people are immune to the effects of our fragmented, impersonal and fiercely compe...

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“The Winds of Willows ” by Julie Ainger

Miracles with Fragilities (pf)The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.Depending on who we listen to.More importantly,Who we hear.Today, after all is Sunday.🙏🏻A Sunday school quiz for all ages, all generstions:”When we look down on another person, is it bad.”True?orFalse?Mull and ponder. Because, it, the question, may address more questions than just the one true or false answer.Yes. We are all “here” for a reason. Maybe even for just a season.Like Springtime.And Bunnies.And Flowering Sunnies.Would you rather shuffle off to Buffalo.Or.L...

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“All the art of living lies in the fine mingling of letting go and holding on here on Paradise Lost Island.” by Julie Ainger

Yes.Agree.May I politely ask you?Do you.Agree or Disagree.Where do you stand?On the “living in paradise spectrum”—circling—In and around and on anIsland.Another day in one person’s paradise may actually and possibly factually be a day of great challenge in the space of another person’s consideration of paradise.My apologies for the negativity bug taking a bite out of my spirit today. It will pass.It has been a long day.A long haul.Many cooks in the kitchen.All that kinda stuff.They come.They go.They stay.They sow.Seeds.And then.They take off...

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“Written all over my poker face” by Julie Ainger

If the rest of the day is to go any betterAnd.It is true what “they” say about curiosity, the cat and death.I am dead.Or in the throes of being killed.Well. So. I might as well enjoy it, huh?Yes.No.Maybe.The last-meal-kinda-enjoyment before death befalls me and I cannot remember my right from my left, my head from my thoughts, reality from influential saturation piped in through my idolatracized musical buds.My ear buds.I can play it as loud or as soft as I want.Nobody cares.I am already dead.I might as well enjoy the accoutrements and the c...

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“The Judgment Card” by Julie Ainger

Today:The Destination is the Journey.The untouchable taste of freedom—the cost can be more than a lifetime.Freedom is not free.He allows us the freedom to be, You and Me.What we choose to do each day is always up to us. In good times and in bad. In sickness and in health.As long as we all shall live.That’s the rub.To be or not to be, is that the question.Gosh. No.We are the property of no one. We own only our decisions when fear and triangulation do not point us in the right direction, too inward.Mendicant or property in common, including la...

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“Musical Chairs” by Julie Ainger

Sound fun?Prerequisite: Quick reaction time😏The crack of the bat.The crack of the back🤓Goal: It is an elimination game🤓It’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurts.Let’s not so much call it stealing a chairs.Per Francis, let’s keep “things” in a positive perspective!Quick reaction time can or may be subjective.(Depending upon provider notes and who and whom they “like”)To some, the word eliminate. A word of profoundness that does not sound fun.Ironically. We learn this in childhood and in different, insidiously, throughout our life.We ma...

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“Never say Never. ” by Julie Ainger

Innocence and Innocent.Is?Youth wasted on the young?“I wasn’t even there.”Is no excuse.Youth may be wasted on the young.It is even worse when wasted.Period.And Innocence.Forget about it?No.In exists.Nowadays.We simply must look ever harder for it.Under here.Under there.Over here.Over there.Or else, it will harshly smack us upside the head. Along with the ringing in ears going on forever.Forever. Even.Ouch.AndMore ouch.In some cultures, innocent until proven guilty is a thing. Well used to be a thing anyway.Best to know beforehand. Who is wri...

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“Love Without Limits” by Julie Ainger

Sounds like a good thing?Yeah?Love without limits.No boundaries.To speak of.Just keep “showing up”.Well.My goal is not burst your bubble.Seriously.Life is complicated.1000 questions.A million actually.Perhaps.The million dollar one-No silly—The million dollar question.Not THAT million dollars.Have you a sickness with all things dollar-ly…..(Sometimes, making up a word is fun🤣.)I digress.O.K. now for the most important question.Relates not necessarily denominationally.But.Make no mistake.One cannot fake a belief.This is about the best news I ...

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“Caught. Looking through a peep hole?…….No. Not me, You?” by Julie Ainger

Science. Schmience.Celesital. Cellestual.Potatoe. Potato.Tomatoe. Tomato.Ugh.Hey. Creep.Will you be one of the many, or none of the few?Some of them. None of them.Who venture out to “take a peak?”At the celestial happening to occur next week.Some time.On the 8th of this month.The total eclipse of the sun.Weirdo.When? Not sure.But. Science said it is to “happen.”Accountability is no where to be “found” on your radar.But is constantly on someone’s. Radar.My radar. Is quite sensitive. How is yours?If this upcoming event is “”all that”, for you....

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“Back to the basics. Basic training on Basic Road.” by Julie Ainger

Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten.Please and thank are the magic words.Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten.If I didn’t.It is worth repeating.Repetition.The sincerest form of flattery🙂.A picture is worth a thousand words, a thousand dollars.But first:“ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN”(c)By Robert FulghumAll I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at S...

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“Soul Winner. Seed Planter. And You.” by Julie Ainger

Happy Easter to the You that is today.And.The You that you hope to be tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day.And.So on and so on.The good news.Every day.There are “win win” choices to make.Everyday.One may say that punishment isn’t supposed to feel good.Is supposed to “teach us something.”Personally. This is a confusing concept. One that takes too much draining energy out of the body. And especially the soul. Ours souls are our personalities and our thoughts all rolled into one.One.One Love.One Life.One.When and how w...

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“Rigidity and Autistia and the POV of specificity ” by Julie Ainger

Imitation.It has been opined.Is the sincerest form of flattery.Order.Order.Order.”You can’t touch this.””You can’t touch that.”Hugs hurt.Short sentences.Long sentences.Run-on sentences.The gift of one someone making sense of it all.One time.One moment.Makes all the difference in the world.In a world where differences are not supposed to “matter.”The pile on.Reciprocity nonexistent.Non existent.I can’t take it anymore.Please understand me.Or.At least try.Whilst you are so busy being,Busy.Someone out there noticed.In an instant.Life changed.No...

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“The courting days are over. Stone cold chaos shines bright.” by Julie Ainger

It is not the the guiding light.,It does not have to be the guiding light.To destruction. Self-destruction or any other types.Assignment for today: Do not overthink.Question: In your mind, your mind’s eyes, your eye’s eyes, which of the following is the most important to you?No fair looking at your neighbor’s paper.Or.Your neighbor’s anything, anyone.Throughout eras, platonic love was slowly categorized into seven different classical definitions.Well. At least that says something about the classics—before imitation and repetition rendered us...

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“SAD, SED, SID, SOD, SUD” by Julie Ainger

Too much of a good thing.Is usually, never, a good thing.”They” tell us:Everything in moderation.Just a dab will do ya.Don’t over do……Lest we make a fool of ourselves in the era ofBeing noticed come hell or high water.In the good old days, “they” were the ones we listened to. Thought we were required to listen to. Until we weren’t.For example.”They” used to say we “should” drink eight, eight ounce glasses of water a day.O.k. Math. Easy math even tells us that is 8x8=_____.That’s quite a bit of H2O“They” say, it is for our health.Those, “they...

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“Welcome! To the money pit at the rat race gallery” by Julie Ainger

We hang out, with our faces on the wall.Life can be kinda like a bad dream.Sometimes.Oftentimes,We, and our life stories come alive, at night, in the dark.The mugs of all mugs.The mug shots of all mug shots.Hanging on the wall.It was ourselves, all along.It is worth noting, or at least knowing, that nothing in life is free.We may think, “🤔Everything will be better when I__________________(fill in the blank)or when I _______________________(fill in the blank)or if I __________________________(fill in the blank)or when I acquire_______________...

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