New start!

An eminent psychologist says we shouldn't expect to keep New Year Resolutions - unless we take one thing at a time, and get support from others. So here's to my old blog, which has fallen into months of uncreativity (or whatever the right word is). This is my resolution, on the eve of the New Year, 2010, to write my blog, be creative and share this with anyone who shares this desire to live differently. Following Clare's wonderful example over on Three Beautiful Things, I promise I will notice three things each day that are creative - or which could be. I hope it will be a journey to a new place.

1. Listening to Woman's Hour - Carol Ann Duffy says poetry is all about the imagination, it is about looking at the ordinary and transforming it. I promise myself to spend more time looking.

2. Jen Hadfield reads some wonderful poetry and says how she was drawn to live in Shetland - and what a special place it was. I remember my winter stay there many years ago, one of the many places I've left behind - but I could revisit it in my imagination and write about it.

3. I think that it can't be a coincidence that the programme this morning is all about women and poetry. I make another cup of tea and ponder serendipity.

Speechless indeed

Ironic that I have been speechless since the last post in October. It is now almost May, the sky is blue and the trees are in blossom. Looking back, I think the combined burden of work and home issues took away my voice, and I fell into a depression - or did the depression come because I stopped writing, stopped even thinking about writing? Plenty to think about, now that I am emerging from this dark water.

So, my three creative things for today:

1. make this blog public & get back in touch with other people's blogs
2. plan a story, any story (I will tell you about it tomorrow)
3. write a poem, or at least the first line of a poem.