Pondering with a Purpose

Thinking on Thursday - Pondering with a Purpose

is hosted at Fiction with a Purpose by Brenda Youngerman and I am days late with adding my post. Forgive me Brenda, and I will meet up with you again this coming Thursday.

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Word Association

We are doing a word association for a writing prompt and Brenda has given us a list of words that were randomly chosen. We can select three of the words for our writing. The word list is below.

Ability. Certificate. Struggle. Slight. Expectation. Hardware. Riding. Embedding. Landscape. Laying.

Select three of them and tell me what they mean to you. You can be as detailed or limited as you like.

I will use hardware, landscape, laying.

The landscape surrounding my home is in dire need. It's cold and brown with spurts of green showing, almost calling for me to get out there and work my hands. Soon, I will be laying life to grow. While I wait for warmer days to heat the soil, this hardware before me keeps my finger busy and my blood flowing. This hardware, affectionately called metal brain, boxy leenie, or just plain puter poo frustrates me sometimes and the name calling begins, but most of the time... I'm laying life to grow. On the internet? On a computer? Grow what? Growing inspiration, knowlege, friends...laying life to grow. It might sound impossible, or not really what one would think of when comparing landscape to hardware. Being inside is nothing comparable to being outside. It is what we do, and what we do with it. Whether we plant in soil, or plant in wires, we can be laying life to grow if we choose. I am still longing to get my flowers, bulbs, and lots of seeds. This landscape is in dire need, as am I. And, thankfully I have this hardware to aid me in laying footwork for my life to grow.