The Curator Magazine published my article on acedia today (link). An excerpt:
Once, after feeling awful for a few days but not thinking it was the flu, I sat up in bed, my stomach churning, my whole torso in pain, and asked my wife to look up the symptoms of appendicitis because I believed I had it. My wife went to WebMD, typed in appendicitis, and rattled off my symptoms one by one. I got dressed and we headed off to the hospital.
I had a similar experience when I read Kathleen Norris’s excellent memoir, Acedia & Me,about six months ago….
You can read the rest here.