TY - BOOK AU - Norris,Kathleen TI - Acedia & me: a marriage, monks, and a writer's life SN - 1594489963 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Riverhead Books KW - Norris, Kathleen, KW - Acedia KW - Apathy KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Melancholy KW - Monastic and religious life KW - Sadness 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 ER -