akedia – CALL ME MAGGIE

January 10, 2013

Mindfulness or Fearfulness

“Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.” -William Shakespeare There is a great deal of viciousness & dis-ease in the United States of America: poverty; mental disorders; drug addiction; bigotry; compulsive obsessive consumption of sex, violence, food, celebrity, television, etc… Continue reading

October 28, 2012

How do we Shape Souls Without Longing?

Nice looking backward at Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Deneen correctly locates the import of the text in its prescient concern with the dis-ease of indifference. Today we live in a different age, one that so worried Bloom—an age… Continue reading

October 7, 2012

A Boon of Dandelions 2

Frustrated. Nervous. Confused. Diseased. Disordered. Cloudy day and foggy mood although I do not think it a direct correlation: not then seasonal activity disorder. Melancholy abounds into my now/here; she empassions me darkly. Boundary situation of pain: Toes I sprained… Continue reading

July 4, 2012

The ‘Busy’ Trap – NYTimes.com

I have spoken a lot to folks over the years about how AKEDIA or Sloth is not “mere laziness” but “spiritual/mindful laziness.” This manifests in two ways: Either as allowing yourself to just sit around in a dulled idle doing nothing… Continue reading