My excuse for being MIA?

Where do ideas come from? American poet Ruth Stone told Elizabeth Gilbert the following secret, 

As [Stone] was growing up in rural Virginia, she would be out, working in the fields and she would feel and hear a poem coming at her from over the landscape. It was like a thunderous train of air and it would come barrelling down at her over the landscape. And when she felt it coming...cause it would shake the earth under her feet, she knew she had only one thing to do at that point. That was to, in her words, "run like hell" to the house as she would be chased by this poem.

The whole deal was that she had to get to a piece of paper fast enough so that when it thundered through her, she could collect it and grab it on the page. Other times she wouldn't be fast enough, so she would be running and running, and she wouldn't get to the house, and the poem would barrel through her and she would miss it, and it would "continue on across the landscape looking for another poet".

I am fairly certain that the same thing has happened to me several times. That I've had these great blog ideas that I wanted to chase and pen down for this blog but I was too slow and the idea just went past me. It doesn't just pass you by, it also leaves this nagging hollowness behind.

But, this new year let me resolve to try and run fast, to have a paper and pen handy to be able to jot down the idea fast enough. That, my dear blog, would be my New Year Resolution for 2012!

Another one would be read as much as possible -for only then can there be an inspiration to write and blog.

Here's to a Happy, Rich, Colourful 2012!!