Free Association – Old Skool

The Kickin’ it Old Skool Blog-a-Thon is doing a little free association today. They gave us five words. We’re to write what the words inspire in us…

River – Fresh – Escape – Moment – Night

River – The first thing I thought of was the Genessee River, which runs through Rochester, New York, where I work. Furthermore, it made me think of a short story I’m working on called “A Castle on the Genessee” which is about what might happen if Rochester Castle, from Kent in the UK, suddenly appeared in the middle of the Genessee River in Rochester, NY. I need to work on that…

Fresh – Fabric softener. And flowers. And spring. Since we’ve gotten well over a foot of snow over the last couple of days, spring sounds fabulous.

Escape – “Esss-cop-ay.” Makes me think of Dory from Finding Nemo. And that I’d like to have a vacation.

Moment – A short period of time. A pause. Maybe even a break. Of late, everything that ought to take ‘only a moment’ seems to take hours.

Night – At this time of year, there’s too much night. My waking consciousness is with daylight, which means I’m only functional for the ten hours or so of daylight that we get around here. Makes for very non-productive days…

Now looking back at these, I see a trend. I think I need to take a few days off of work. And I think I will…

Do these words – river, fresh, escape, moment, night – trigger anything in you?