Pontificus Minimus Opines
Observations, opinions, and commentary on life and culture
Clarksdale Garden Club and an Old Nun Prayer
17th Century Nun’s Prayer By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi I did it! I attended a meeting of the Clarksdale Garden Club! My lovely wife, Magical Madge Marley Howell, invited me to...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Eight
Moon Lake. Photo by Delta Bohemian ©2014 By WILLIAM PRENTISS “Real religion cannot be opposed to intellect.” — Leo Tolstoy A perennial question plaguing thinkers, believers and thinking believers concerns...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Seven
A pier to hope. Photo by Delta Bohemian ©2014 By WILLIAM PRENTISS I lie here only able to hear, and that unknown to others, thinking about empathy and compassion, wondering...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Six
A view of the Mississippi Gulf. Photo by Delta Bohemian By WILLIAM PRENTISS Hours on end, thinking yet not seeing, hearing but not feeling, feeling but never expressing, this is my...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Five
Fettered by Dysfunction – Photo by Billy Howell By WILLIAM PRENTISS My mind is a merciless jailor, more so than my motionless frame. I haven’t moved a leg, limb or eyelash...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Four: Pilgrims
Sunset in the Mississippi Delta. ©2014 Photo by DELTA BOHEMIAN® By WILLIAM PRENTISS I had already begun contemplating death prior to my present state. When younger, healthy and virtually free of...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Three
Private Park No Trespassing sign By WILLIAM PRENTISS Clarksdale, Mississippi Rough day. I feel no physical pain, but I still deal with and feel mental anguish. This angst is usually...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Two
Mississippi River. ©2014 Photo by Delta Bohemian® 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,...
Mornings with Tolstoy – The Beginning
Sun obscured by Clouds Photo by Billy Howell By WILLIAM PRENTISS Clarksdale, Mississippi He is God. Why didn’t He protect me? I blamed Him. It wasn’t His fault. Life ain’t...
Whuppin’ Dat Ass Mississippi Delta Style
Delta Bohemian® “Poor William” Billy Howell By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi (VIDEO) Is “ass-whuppin Christian” an oxymoron? You bet! Why is it so many of us give in to our sinful...