Understanding Your Boomer Parents Thanks to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting

And so they retreat into dreams of private things: financial security - a home in the suburbs - a /'beer and a ballgame.' This is a troubling fact in a society that is counting on these same young Americans to solve the enormous problems of life in the twentieth century.

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Transcribing a Sermon, Illuminating a Manuscript

I needed some transcripts with music in them. So, I grabbed the Thanksgiving Sermon and I've been transcribing the sermon of James A. Farmer Jr. Along the way, I've been thinking of monks copying and illuminating manuscripts, and this parallel feeling of doing something similar with modern technology.

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