Slump, grumps....... Solution: Grace

 One of the reasons I quit blogging last April was because I slid into a reading slump. (If my reading were a posture, it would be permanently couched, with a book half closed on my blanketed lap).

 I got grumpy towards the books I read. Some  were okay — others I merely enjoyed — but didn’t want to think about any further. 

I certainly didn’t  want to write about them. 

My thoughts bored me.   Blogs caused ennui.
 So I will summarize:
Currently reading:  Gilead.
Listening to: The Paris Wife.
Gilead may just be the book that makes me want to write about books again. As for the The Paris Wife -- don't like the reader and find I am not drawn to the vapid lifestyle of the Lost Generation. My slump  continued for more than 6 months.  Nothing has swept me off my feet, made me fall in love. I tried the usual panaceas — returning to mysteries, going to award lists— National Book Award,  the Booker.  But alas, nothing seemed to push me out of my book funk/ blog funk.
So I gave it a rest.

And some  of my life — the personal side seemed well,  too personal. 

 I haven’t been depressed exactly, but I have been distracted. Doing lots of yoga.Lots of napping. 

But I just read Bryan’s one word, and decided to throw my hat back in the game. 

My word: Grace. It is the word I choose almost every time I am directed to choose an intention for yoga practice. It is the  word I wore on my favorite t-shirt years ago in my darkest hours. 

It is a word that links the physical and the spiritual, that comes down to me and lifts up out of me.

 I don’t know if grace will help me with reading or blogging. I don’t know if I will blog again. 

But for today….. my one word -- GRACE--  is enough.