It’s “Chilly Outside”: Reflections on Tha Moon relative to God’s Immanence, Imminence & Eminence in the Mississippi Delta: Commonality of Faith!
It's "Chilly Outside": Reflections on Tha Moon relative to God's Immanence, Imminence & Eminence in the Mississippi Delta: Commonality of Faith. God is Immanent, Imminent & Eminent in the Mississippi Delta: Immanent = InherentImminent = ImpendingEminent = Distinguished Yet, God is also transcendent here: Beyond us, outside us, above us. … [Read More...]
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MS Delta Wildlife
By POOR WILLIAM VIDEO Hey Man, we love the blues in the Delta, but we also are eat up with all our wildlife. Magical Madge and I, along with many a Deltan, take great pleasure in late afternoon and evening drives in the Mississippi Delta. … [Read More...]
Hotty Toddy Cup
By MAGICAL MADGE He made me giggle when he would settle himself in the bar at Madidi, an Episcopalian priest with a keen sense of humor and a thirst for life. Poor William and I became friends with the reverend back in 2010 having met him at Red's Blues Club. The quirky "Father" has been a faithful supporter of the DB, even through Mr. January, Mr. January comments, Mr. February, Mr. February … [Read More...]
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Eleven
By WILLIAM PRENTISS My world is obsidian; it was formerly gray splintered by veiny shafts of ochre spasmodically penetrating the unseen with countenance warming spumes of hope, now curtained in blackness, muzzled by stygian lassitude. Rhythms of life disrupted, surface bobbing on an ocean of unreality, unsure where I am or where I am heading, do I even exist? … [Read More...]
Got Game at Coahoma County Recreation Expo
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO How often have we thought or said that there is nothing for kids to do around here? Too often! Well, there is a bit of a solution right here in Coahoma County. The Coahoma County Youth Outreach (CCYO) program, housed in the old … [Read More...]
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Ten
By WILLIAM PRENTISS I no longer have use for money, material possessions, or tangibles associated with not being in a presumed coma. It costs to keep me wherever Sis is keeping me and I am thankful resources exist for my care. I have not always wanted to live, not since the assault that reshaped my reality. Long having questioned God as to why this happened and why I am still alive, I often … [Read More...]
Red Paden Birthday Bash at Red’s Lounge
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO AND PHOTOS Sunday night was a time of great festivity for Clarksdalians— natives, transplants, and miscreants—who love Red Paden and his world-renowned, one-of-a-kind, ain’t-nothing-like-it blues lounge. We celebrated Red’s birthday in typical Red’s Lounge fashion: cold beer, warm BBQ, hot and milky blues, and sizzlin’ moonshine! … [Read More...]
Money Gruber
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi RADIOLAND VIDEO about Money Grubbin' with a shout out to Jonathan Gruber Sometimes ya just gotta see the humor in things in order not to cry like the rare bureaucrat with a pink slip. Regardless of your political persuasion or your feelings about hot-button issues in the mainstream press, the following impromptu audio recorded while driving in the … [Read More...]
Clarksdale Artist in Residence Mecca
By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi VIDEO Buildings all over Clarksdale beg to become sanctuaries for artists in residence. In the meantime, while entrepreneurs like Charles Evans, who is renovating and converting several spaces along Sunflower Avenue for one such purpose, our artists in residence and visiting artists in residence must take up shop wherever they can find it. Good … [Read More...]
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Nine
By WILLIAM PRENTISS Prior to being in a suspended state due to a brutal attack, I thought I possessed a highly developed, acute conscience. Now I lie here, day after day, frozen, conscience growing richer—more aware—possessing tenderness not evidenced prior to my unexpected change in circumstances. I cannot communicate with others, only God, and still I shy away from Him. Unable to speak, … [Read More...]
Clarksdale Garden Club and an Old Nun 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 tag along and help her film a holiday presentation by our good friend, Marilyn Trainor Storey, Mississippi Design Maven. Don’t get me wrong, I ain’ opposed to growing stuff; gots a garden of my own, but it ain’ gonna win any … [Read More...]
Bilbo Walker and Roger Stolle off to Brazil
Clarksdale, Mississippi VIDEO Bilbo Walker plays at Red's Blues Club tonight - Thursday, November 13. How about you head there and wish him and Cat Head owner Roger Stolle safe travels as they head off to Brazil for a two week trip. They leave on Saturday! Watch the video and hear Bilbo talk about how much he will be "missin' here" while he is gone. … [Read More...]
IT Will Get You if You Let IT
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi A RADIOLAND VIDEO IT! What IT is? IT is what IT is! That’s IT! But also, IT is a personal, genderless, subjective or objective pronoun. IT takes the place of a noun and often refers back to some object in the sentence. But what is IT? It ain’ all that complicated is IT? Okay, enough Abbott and Costello! My maternal grandmother, Mattie Louise … [Read More...]
Wearin’ It Out
By POOR WILLIAM and MAGICAL MADGE A RADIOLAND VIDEO I get exhausted when I get through thinkin' ...... … [Read More...]
The Mosquito Returns to the New Roxy
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO at BOTTOM OF POST) “By popular demand we are going to host another Mosquito spoken word event. We've got cold beer, wood to burn and the funkiest tiki bar in town. Come see our latest improvements and say goodbye before we fly home on Thursday.” -- Robin Colonas, NEW ROXY … [Read More...]
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Eight
By WILLIAM PRENTISS “Real religion cannot be opposed to intellect.” -- Leo Tolstoy A perennial question plaguing thinkers, believers and thinking believers concerns the relationship of faith, reason and intellect. Does faith in the unseen require blind trust, or can it be predicated on things understood in the natural? Are faith, reason, and science mutually exclusive of one another? … [Read More...]
Magic Johnson
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi A RADIOLAND AUDIO VIDEO Hey Man, I don't have much of a jump shot but I can shoot the eyes out of a free throw, still leaving me shorter than NBA legend Magic Johnson. However, everybody's johnson possesses a little magic. … [Read More...]
Mississippi Delta at Night behind the Levee
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) Keeper of the field Levee is his post Stationary sentinel Silent as a ghost Riders on the night See him in the breeze Mandibles a jawin’ Seemingly at ease … [Read More...]
Lois Lowry Shares Her Story with Clarksdale
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi Library full, mostly women—young to old—kids on iPhones, growing up fast, three young ladies in white headdresses, teachers with list for extra credit, several young Mennonite girls, faces flush with innocence and beauty, wearing printed dresses, small groups of rovers patrolling looking for friends, all well behaved, light chatter a pleasant white … [Read More...]
Small Town of Sumner Mississippi Acting Big
By MAGICAL MADGE Sumner, Mississippi The small Town of Sumner in the Mississippi Delta isn't letting its size of only 310 hold it back from making a difference in the community. The picturesque hamlet, county seat for West Tallahatchie, has a vision worth noting. … [Read More...]
Mississippi Delta Snow Geese
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi. (VIDEO) Deep browns surround Winter wheat sprouts verdant Spring not far, yet unseen Hope is lofty, but not restricted … [Read More...]
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