TY - BOOK AU - Norris,Kathleen TI - Acedia & me: a marriage, monks, and a writer's life SN - 9781594489969 AV - BT732.4 .N67 2008 U1 - 818/.5403B 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Riverhead Books KW - Norris, Kathleen, KW - Acedia KW - Melancholy KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Sadness KW - Apathy KW - Monastic and religious life N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-334); Somewhere -- Tedium -- From eight bad thoughts to seven sins -- Psyche, soul, and muse -- Up and down -- Give me a word -- Acedia's progress -- Acedia's decline -- A silent despair -- The quotidian mysteries -- The "noon" of midlife -- Day by day -- And to the end arriving -- A widow's uneasy afterword -- Acedia: a commonplace book N2 - Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0901/2008010150-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0901/2008010150-d.html ER -