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Julie Ainger

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Things we have to learn before we can do.

Wait. A. Second. Do you have a minute to spare? To learn nonsensical nonsense like understanding a different language for the first (or in my case, umpteenth time) While I cite here, the experts—you know the ones the they who always know when we are wrong or right-who say like 50, or 60, or 70 percent of language is unspoken….Come to discover, well at least what the search engine drives is communication cannot be clearly broken down it fixed math rules.(ai) Aha! I knew it. I just knew it— and not because I am sub par at math☺️. Take that Pi ...

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Tinnitus

Couldn’t’ put my finger on it, make it go away. The buzzing continued throughout the night and day and was relentless. As I staggered to take a pee in the darkness, I grabbed it out of my ears and it dropped to the floor. I heard something fall to the floor and moved downward to retrieve it, Whoosh was all I heard and staggeringly I moved upward in a rush and threw myself off balance. I felt like I was underwater in the ocean or something. The hissing, humming whooshing-continued incessantly as I’d shake my head like a good dog on my five fe...

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A carnival of cryptomnesia

Walking around the familiar sounds of the screams and hoots and hollers was as exhilarating as ever—until darkness came. The heat did not help matters either, as when dusk approached and the sun set behind the landscape, it was nearing time to leave this state of suspended animation. Why, I wonder, do I return here every year? Return to the lukewarm beer, bad and stinky cheese curds and half-cooked brats? Well. Tradition, for one…been coming here since I was a young kid. Just seems familiar and routine—no surprises to expect or have to deal ...

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To Nachash or not to Nachash. That is the question?

There is no such thing as magic. Have you ever stopped, really stop and think about what it is you want? Really want. Whay would you do to obtain what you think you want. Really want. A new car? A new house? A new boyfriend? A new girlfriend? Oh what a wicked web we weave when we intend to deceive. What is is worth to you? The overwhelming desire to have what another person has? Is there such a thing as having anything or anyone that the heart desires? At lease the book of all Books, tells us the narrow path to walk along so the noise of th...

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Visitation Rights

Memories, like the corners of our minds. Misty. Water colored. Black-clouded confusion. They pop up when they want, from the recesses—behind the eyes, the ears, the nape of the neck. Just to say, “Hey, I am still here.” Ugh. Or. Ce Sera Sera Whatever will be, will. Let it go. Acceptance. God grant me the serenity, to accept the things I cannot change. Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Wisdom to know the difference. It’s all about the apps. No! Not appetizers, 🫒🥟or application for this or that place.🔏🗓️ ...

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Wolves is sheep’s clothing

Apples and Oranges. Two completely different natures that cannot be mixed. Love can be a two-sided coin of counterfeit and in some cases it takes a slow and steady hand to flip the coin from bad to good, from hate to love, from wrong to right. The Nine Supernatural Attributes - Love: Sacrificial, unconditional goodwill toward others, modeled by Christ. - Joy: Deep, abiding gladness rooted in God, independent of circumstances. - Peace: Internal tranquility and harmony, resting in God’s sovereignty. - Patience: Long-suffering endurance and s...

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Buried Treasure

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. The thoughts cross the mind periodically throughout the day. A stare of remembrance clicks the mind into a yay or a nay, a kind of deep and unknown acknowledgement.Sometimes the messages of memories present in the forms of, let’s say clouds, or rain. A smile, a wave or a snub, an ignore. All are hints of what should be versus what really is. We struggle to take it all in and vomit that stuff we cannot hold onto any longer. Life is a roller coaster. We ride. We get off. We ride, we become sick. We ...

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The First Shall Be Last and the Last Shall Be First

Roadblocks appear to test our ability to grow. To go where some have never been. Some folks ask and wonder, if there is a will, is there a way? Maybe. Maybe not. Depends upon a lot. In 1640 the power of determination was recognized as a force to be reckoned with. A question to be asked as to how far one can be pushed to the limits. Over time and circumstance, this phrase challenged even the mightiest to look deep within to test the measure of himself or herself. Ask deep within, what would I do to gain?….. Relax. Explode. Give up? Fast forwa...

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The hankering hankerchief

Hachoo, Achoo!🤧 Sometimes it comes in twos, maybe threes. We stumble and clumsily reach for a tissue to wipe it all away, get rid of them. The tears for fears. Or maybe the tears from the fears. Could have come from anywhere: A virus unleashed on the borders of somewhere else, from someone else. When the retreat occurred the result ensued that everyone point a finger at someone else. No. It was not me who passed the bug along, I got it from you. Round and round and round it goes and where it stops nobody knows. Take a shot. Don’t take a sho...

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Double Crossed or Doubled Cross

The event of the century. Duplicity and Perfidia lived at opposite ends of the spectrum. But today, today they were to unite in ways large and small. The small town was abuzz with the potentials and possibilities. They were to be joined at the hip and wedded in ways no one could ever imagine. Each carrying their deepest secrets with them as they walk down the aisle of no return. Duplicity and Perfidia were considered to be the beautiful people. Popular, everyone wanted their story to be ever lasting. And did whatever possible to break the u...

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The gentle gentile

When the dust settles. Yes. Sometimes it is when the measure of a man comes to life. You see. Different things. (‘Things’ is used in the Bible to explain the unexplainable while mere mortals work to figure it out) The meaning behind the words. Most of us regular folks are simply trying to “get by.” He. Hopes for more for us. And. At the same time, we have a million, a gagillion ways to ‘muck’ it up, to ‘muck’ up the simple. A make it complicated mindset of agendas and wannabes. THANK GOD. He is ok with our slowness. Our delayed responses in ...

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Working backwards

Looking through the eyes of love. For those who exist in the periphery as well as those who have ‘been there all along.’ The ‘thing’ of life’s twists and turns is nothing in life is ever a slam dunk of finality. Probably because tomorrow is another day. And. Depending upon who you ‘follow’ tomorrow is another good day. ’Cept. It doesn’t mean the same for every individual. Recollections vary. People are right. People are wrong. People are up. People are down. People are tall. People are short. Humans have a choice. He has already made His cho...

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Man Plans God Laughs

Well. What we lack in foresight, we make up for in silliness bordering on foolishness. Foolish to think we have the control. Fools rush around chasing their own thoughts, possibly backing into a wall and ‘knocking’ the better sense, their common sense, way back in the mind of thinking we know better than He. Fools rush in when the going gets tough, hiding behind the so called weaker. Good thing He knows a fraud when presented with the opportunity.You see, changing times calls for changing measures. Measuring a man who will take the brunt of ...

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The routine of power and familiarity

WHAT just happened? “I’ve been here before.” We think and maybe even assume this idea, thought, remembrance is both good and bad. Well. It can be, Both good and bad. No one ever said life is easy. ”Life is difficult.” (ps) Depending upon how you attack the day, approach a situation, solve a problem in the answer you give to the meaning of the circumstance, situation, occurrence. Best of all with a little and possibly invisible help along the way.🙂While, yes, life is made to be lived, humans tend to complicate the simplest of the minutes of t...

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Beekeeper and epilepsy

One for the ages. One that stands the test of time. ”Age is an issue of mind over matter.” (Mark Twain) While aging is mandatory, growth is optional. Age has many meanings and connotations in its use and usury of life’s descriptive ways, means and lessons. Like a fine wine.🍷 Aged to perfection. ”The years teach much, which the days never knew.” Ralph Waldo Emerson ”With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” Oscar Wilde. A lot has been written about the wrinkles of and crinkles of the joints in old age. I guess the best we can do...

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