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January 11, 2009 2 Comments

Do It Again!

As I mentioned in a recent post, I only read a few early chapters in Acedia & me, by Kathleen Norris, before I had to return it to the library. However, I found myself pondering some of her words. For example, she wrote, "The difficult thing about days is that they must be repeated" (p. 12*). Acedia, it seems, struggles with the sameness and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: prayer, reading, self-discovery, simplicity Tagged With: acedia, acedia & me, G.K. Chesterton

April 26, 2008 16 Comments

Kathleen Norris, Acedia, and the Commonplace Book

Kathleen Norris's session at the Festival of Faith & Writing offered some good stuff, though my notes are spotty. She spent most of the time defining that word, "acedia," that has fallen out of usage. She's trying to resurrect it, because she thinks it captures our current culture's general boredom, apathy, or ennui. None of those words expresses the attitude and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blog, Blogger, blogging, books, creativity, lifelong learning, mind, reading, self-discovery, writer, writers Tagged With: acedia, boredom, common place book, commonplace book, commonplace books, ennui, Kathleen Norris

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