Pontificus Minimus Opines

Observations, opinions, and commentary on life and culture

Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Seven

By WILLIAM PRENTISSI lie here only able to hear, and that unknown to others, thinking about empathy and compassion, wondering about the root of both. What compels us to feel...
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Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Six

By WILLIAM PRENTISS Hours on end, thinking yet not seeing, hearing but not feeling, feeling but never expressing, this is my wakened state, unknown to none but me, and God of...
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Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Five

By WILLIAM PRENTISSMy mind is a merciless jailor, more so than my motionless frame. I haven’t moved a leg, limb or eyelash for two years; my thoughts hold more of...
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Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Four: Pilgrims

By WILLIAM PRENTISS I had already begun contemplating death prior to my present state. When younger, healthy and virtually free of scars and the tissue that remains, death was something far...
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Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Three

By WILLIAM PRENTISSClarksdale, Mississippi Rough day. I feel no physical pain, but I still deal with and feel mental anguish. This angst is usually a result of painful memories or...
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Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Two

By WILLIAM PRENTISS Clarksdale, Mississippi I don’t always understand or agree with what Sis reads to me from Leo Tolstoy’s A Calendar of Wisdom, but it sure does make me think. Thinking is...
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Mornings with Tolstoy – The Beginning

By WILLIAM PRENTISSClarksdale, Mississippi He is God. Why didn’t He protect me? I blamed Him. It wasn’t His fault. Life ain’t fair. That’s that. No more pleas for them to...
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Whuppin’ Dat Ass Mississippi Delta Style

By POOR WILLIAMCLARKSDALE, Mississippi (VIDEO) Is “ass-whuppin Christian” an oxymoron? You bet! Why is it so many of us give in to our sinful nature when we get pissed off...
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Being Present

By POOR WILLIAMCLARKSDALE, Mississippi “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about...
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Nuthin’ and Everything

By Poor Williamv(Clarksdale, Mississippi)vNuthin’ can be something, and nuthin’ can be everything, if one’s everything is nuthin’!Nuthin' and Everything. Two words appearing to be diametrically opposed—nothing and everything—are not as mutually...
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A Message from Jason Shelby that may make you shout ‘Alleluia’ involuntarily.

By Guest Bohemian Jason Shelby The following is a word for word transcription, with a few edits for clarity, of Rev. Jason Shelby's homily given on Sunday, April 29, 2012...
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Contritus Williamus Opines: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Caladiums

By Contritus Williamus Only God could have designed a weak, singular, 2-inch Caladium leaf—recently emerged from bulb status—to break through Poor William’s pobrean soil and red mulch, to stand proudly...
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