Tomorrow, August 6, is a horrible occasion: the 72nd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. It seems appropriate to spend some time meditating on our relationship with Japan and its people over the last century. Earlier this year Fresno, California, joined the rest of the nation in observing the 75th anniversary of the executive […]
Author: Walter Saul
Frank Felice’s Liturgy of the Hours
Okay, I admit it. I do complain about the heat of Fresno in the summer, and even, occasionally, escape it. But there is one wonderful grace about my city in the dead of summer, and that is sunrise. Without an alarm, I usually pop up around quarter of six in the morning and jump on […]
A new concert of promise and two other new works (first of three columns)
It has been a very hot June and July in Fresno, California, lately. Now, as a Fresnan, I have gotten into the habit of sharing the horrors of our consistent triple-digit highs for weeks in a row to innocent friends in other places, especially when they whine about highs in the mere 90’s. I can […]