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Julie Ainger

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Serious business

When a person has a difficult job, smiling or laughing isn’t always on the table of joy and ease. Certainly, specific beings can make us smile, like a cute little puppy (or kitten) or a handsome big dog (and lion)🦁 On the one hand we sincerely prefer their protection, their strength and steadfast resolve to do whatever it takes to survive the world. We take their cues of head bob and weave as a way to read the environment and adjust accordingly. On the other hand we are frightened by their always serious demeanor of business as usual. We w...

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Two dimensional and orbicular tendencies

Hard as a rock is the stoic man who cannot rely on expressive language to play his hand, preferring to keep at arm’s length that which he doesn’t understand. In many orbicular rocks, more than one type of core exists. (cd) What lies beneath the surface of the layers of dense hardness isn’t always discoverable until the probe reaches deep or after an explosion occurs. Faced with truth or consequence after so much time has passed present sketchy the recollection that once bubbled below the surface and under the so called steely exterior lies n...

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Infinite Wisdom and My Two Cents

Experience is the best teacher. Sounds trite inasmuch as seeking knowledge of the answer in a concept that goes against the grain of our heart’s content. Advice can be both free and worthless and for believers truer said than done because we will not know until we get there. Not those corporate heavenly skies, but the bonafide heavenly skies. For now. Down here. We work it and try and work it out down here on planet earth where differing opinions and infinite ideas have taken on whole meaning. The bar has been heightened so high, there is no...

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Exceeds expectations.

Anticipation. We made it through another holiday with the persistence of a squirrel cracking a nut. Our best gift? We realized we were the nut. And that is ok. The tenacity of a squirrel is unparalleled. Do they ever rest? They work hard to crack open the nut and spill its contents. After all, the rascally squirrel is just trying to survive. The tinsel and garland is settled and the lights have turned off after the family celebration. Our mind wanders from the busy-ness that occupied thoughts and actions to a quiet moment to wonder, Are we t...

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It only takes a spark.⚡️

“🎶🎼🎵” ”It only takes a spark to get a fire going.” ”And soon all those around will warm up in its glowing.” ”That’s how it is with God’s love,” ”Once you experience it.” ”You spread His love to everyone.” ”You WANT to,” ”Pass it on” At this time of year most everyone is considered a kid, definitely a child, of His, of the most High. Clearly, as life has shown us “lately” expressions of fear run wild and deep with hurt doubt and, well, everywhere. We come together at this time of year, at the end of a very long year for some, and a year that...

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Take two and call me in the morning.

The call back. Waiting. Hoping. Hurting. Smarting. Near to impossible to connect when the line is always busy. The pecking order pokes hard and “ouchy” for some rather than others. In earlier times before today’s border crossings of this and that and who or whom, bringing who knows what in who knows bags of powders and plants, medical doctors made this verbal prescription to patients complaining of this or that. Or him or her. A headache or a backache. Way back when, around the 1800’s, salicin, an ingredient of willow bark was being chewed a...

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A bitter pill to swallow

Alright already. Bite the bullet already. The best way through is through. Better to die while trying than to not try at all? Better to miss the boat and splash around aimlessly and hopelessly in a puddle of own tears? The elephant in the room waits with patience for the well being of all earthly inhabitants…..on land and sea, in tropical forests and jungles of all the world. Desert plains and mountainous scenes of awesome. While navigating treacherous waters, a lot depends, of course, on the side of the boat where the bad weather is blowing...

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Cold-harded-snake

Pride is a fickle friend. A cold hearted person is still, A person. Most important, cannot be forced into love. Ugh. Patience is a virtue, after all. Persistence is its ugly sister, I suppose. I have said it a millions times, it is near to impossible to squeeze blood from a turnip. Yet, many have tried. Most have failed. But, Not everyone. A cold-hearted snake has more intent than he is willing to admit hidden below the surface. Contrarily, even the icy-est has a warm spot, a soft spot. A cold-hearted snake may want to admit failings, and ov...

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Huh?

Huh? Sometimes. Does it ever feel like you do not know if you are coming or going? Where you started and where or how it all may end up? Or down…. Godspeed and waiting in line seems like the same action, the same reaction, the same redaction—in the face of having to wait for the truth to come out. The truth or consequences to be met with an accountability suitable to the offense. We wait. We ponder. We state. We wonder. About how much longer we will have to wait. We assume our time is more valuable than another’s. Huh. Do you have the time? ...

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A healthy dose of re-hash and rumination

The definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. When we continually go round in circles, (like our furry friend hamster) this may be the expected outcome.Or. We can change our way of thinking. No more dark and stormy nights.There is a lot of good to be learned from “digging deep.” Up the past. Thinking on the bright side for a change. When might digging up the past finally allow it to be put to permanent rest. Right now, everything in the world seems so dreadful, dark. A never ending “mixed ...

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The more things change the more they stay the same.

History has a way of repeating it self. The roller coaster of life that cheerily goes up and down and up and down challenges us with vociferous reminders that we can all do better. Be our. Best selves. If life is the highway we ride all night long, when do we rest, call it a day, Put the phone down. With 24/7 coverage of all life’s news on a loop, when do we rest, take it easy, take a chill pill in order to help, Turn it all off. We are connected in ways long and longer and we simply have come to a place where we cannot break the chain. The...

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Chill up my spine.

It came and went. It would come and go. An unshakeable force. It showed up unannounced and rudely left without warning. The leftover feeling that something wasn’t quite right. No exit strategy. No way out. The only way through, was through. So when it hit, usually fast and hard, could only close my eyes and ride it out. Or. Some days, rearrange the furniture with a vengeance. No middle ground, no down time, no waiting time. Relax. Or. Explode. The only two choices given as well as the residual was the painful chill up my spine of a choice ta...

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Moral Compass or Morally Compassed?

What time is it? Does anybody really know? Does anybody really care? I can’t imagine why. Oh boy. Oh girl. Time to get with the program. Time heals all wounds. Application of the correct dosage must be precise, exact, timely intended. Otherwise, waste of time, wasted time, time is a wasting. Time is precious. A precious commodity never to be wasted. Not one of us knows how much of it we have. We think it is endless, we sometimes treat others like it is endless. Fools, we are rushing in to “ state our case.” Of our jumbled stories of right an...

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Turn the Tables

Peculiarity rang its ugly head one day. To be honest.More than once. You see. Blinking has its advantages in the short term, however clouds the vision for the long treacherous and at times long haul. Clouds. Check mark. Not seeing clearly. Check mark. Seeing no forest from the trees.? Huh? Or is it seeing the trees from the forest? Huh? Again. See what I mean. Confusing. There are many attractive ways to attract attention. Normally.Or.,oftentimes, anyway, to attract some attention one must give bad or false information to or about someone el...

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Reverance.

Reverence. Veneration. Devotion. The truth of “it” all. Cuts like the knife. Of a bow and arrow. May. Or might. Come. In the form of a straight shooter… Time will tell. Repetitious-ly so in blood curdled repetitions. It. Always does. Separate the man from the boys. Separate the believers who strive for a belief but fall short or are insecure of all that it may mean or have meant. A straight shooter. How will a mortal and a human know the measure of a man. When to pull the trigger? Click a bait? Decide a decision? Of and on the life of anoth...

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