Honoring The Father

Father's Day is June 16 This email is devoted to honoring our father, Weston Neil Andersen, the founder of Andersen Studio and Andersen Design, 91 years old.

Last night I sat with Dad alone on our front porch overlooking the pond and he spoke of concerns for his family and the future of the business. Dad is a man who cares profoundly about others, both in the sense of family, which is the deepest concern of all, and the terms of community, as in an extension of family.

I often throw tarot cards. The card most often representing Dad is the Hermit Card , showing an old man on a mountain holding up a lantern. Weston has wisdom, of the sort that one wonders who will carry it on after he is gone. Today old values are slipping away like the Mists Of Avalon- a book I read many years ago about the transformation of culture as it evolved from paganism to organized religion. These times are as transformational and
Dad is now an icon of the past.

The Hermit card shows a man standing alone …