Kathleen Norris: Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life


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The extraordinary "New York Times" bestselling masterpiece from "one of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual writers of our time ("San Francisco Chronicle"). Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn't drag herself out of bed in the morning, couldn't summon the energy for her daily tasks. Even as she struggled, Norris recognized her familiar battle with "acedia," a word she had discovered in early Church text years earlier. Fascinated by this "noonday demon," so familiar to those in the early and medieval Church, Norris knew she must restore this forgotten but important concept to the modern world's vernacular. An examination of acedia in the light of psychology, spirituality, the healing powers of religious practice, and Norris's own experience, "Acedia & Me" is both intimate and historically sweeping, brimming with exasperation and reverence, sometimes funny, often provocative, and always insightful.

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in this highly colourful, joyous and award-winning adventure. will there be enough room?" On a hike with her Buttercup troop, Sofia must prove to an overprotective Baileywick and King Roland that princesses need to (and can) do things on their own. In this Level 1 reader with simple text and word repetition, young children will be able to enjoy this Sofia the First story on their own. In Lab Girl, we see anew the complicated power of the natural world, and the power that Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life free epub can come from facing with bravery and conviction the challenge of discovering who you are.


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Author: Kathleen Norris
Number of Pages: 334 pages
Published Date: 02 Mar 2010
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781594484384
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