Leo Tolstoy
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Thirteen
Ice on Limbs in Friars Point, MS By WILLIAM PRENTISS “Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Twelve
Sunset over the Mississippi Delta on a very cold winter day. ©2015 Photo by Billy Howell By WILLIAM PRENTISS I lie here mortally disconnected to humanity, only God! Sis, not...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Eleven
Poor William with his back to the sun. ©2014 DELTA BOHEMIAN® By WILLIAM PRENTISS My world is obsidian; it was formerly gray splintered by veiny shafts of ochre spasmodically penetrating...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Ten
Hawk and jet vapor trail over the Mississippi Delta By WILLIAM PRENTISS I no longer have use for money, material possessions, or tangibles associated with not being in a presumed coma....
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Nine
Sunrise in the Mississippi Delta. ©2014 THE DELTA BOHEMIAN® By WILLIAM PRENTISS Prior to being in a suspended state due to a brutal attack, I thought I possessed a highly developed,...
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 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,...