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Honor Thy Father - Remembering Weston Neil Andersen

Tweet This !  http://goo.gl/AczSwl Weston Neil Andersen was an American ceramic designer, craftsman and entrepreneur who in 1952, established  Andersen Design Stoneware  with his wife Brenda in the coast of Maine, USA, . He was also my father whom I loved and cared for and was cared for by during the latter years of his life. This is the story about the last five years in which he suffered from a brain injury. Weston was known throughout his life for his analytical mind, which was not affected by the brain injury but it compromised his ability to express his thoughts in complete sentences. During the last five years of his life, Weston spent many hours in deep reflection, seldom seeming to be bored. At times he would sleep for a very long time and when he awoke , he would say that he gotten a lot of work done. In mild weather, he spent many hours of the day sitting on the front porch taking in the natural surroundings and the community walking up and down the street which us

Special Sale on Hand Crafted Designer Mugs Made in America!

SALE ON WIDE GINGERBREAD MUGS EXTENDED TO FEB 19 ! Tweet This ! http://goo.gl/gcoEHR   See Links below to order !                               Single Mug  Special Price through February 16 ! Usual Price $40.00 Get Mug Now for $35.00 ! Set of Four Mugs SPECIALLY PRICED Through Monday February 16  Usual price for 4 Mugs is $150.00 Get them now for  $130.00 SET OF SIX MUGS SPECIAL PRICE THROUGH MONDAY FEBRUARY 16 Usual Price for Six Mugs is $219.00 Get Them Now for $180.00  ! Set of 12 Wide Gingerbread Mugs    SPECIAL PRICE Through FEB 16 USUAL PRICE FOR 12 MUGS $360.00 Get Them Now for $300.00 ! Share:

First Mugs from New Molds In- Many Beautiful Seconds Available While They last !

  ORDER SECONDS IN STOCK HERE    OR Place Your Orders for Firsts – Soon HERE Tweet This!  http://goo.gl/5twfgu The mugs shown in this image have been decorated by myself, Mackenzie Andersen. This is the first time that I have ever done the Brown Tree  Motif as production decorating. That is to say I sat down and did a group of twenty mugs in one session. Production decorating is like doing a performance. It requires confidence in one’s natural and spontaneous style of working with a brush. One has to accept one’s self, enjoy one’s self and to be non-judgmental but one can observe oneself. The first thought that came to mind as I commenced the performance is that I want to channel my Mother, Brenda. Brenda had exceptional vitality in the way that she exercised the paint brush. Sometimes her work was expressionistic and at other times it was controlled without being in the least bit tight – as if she had perfect integration between mind and body, between what she was observing

Announcing The Great American Ceramic Artist Designer Craftsmen Network Crowdfunding Web Site !

Tweet This!  http://goo.gl/xtojiu Introducing  the newly created Andersen Design website. I It is in its bare bones state today but that will be changing over time. Alpha & Omega the Becoming of Andersen Ceramics into The Great American Ceramic Artists Designers Craftsmen Network Andersen Design is the wholesale and production entity for Andersen Ceramics. Andersen Studio is our retail and design entity. Andersen Ceramics  is a family business which was established by my parents , Weston & Brenda Andersen in 1952.- well actually it started in Ohio in 1951 but my parents knew they couldn't keep doing production in the Levitt style home which Dad had acquired with a veteran's loan and so they moved to Maine in 1952 to become the first ceramic enterprise on the Boothbay Peninsula - soon to have a cluster industry sprout up around the area, which still exists today. The Great American Ceramic Artist's Designer's Craftsmen Network shoul

Does A Conscious Business Make Business Sense

This is John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods and the Conscious Capitalism Movement

     Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Introducing Mikkel Clair Nissen

I accidentally deleted this post. I recreated it but the link is now different and so I am posting it again with new link Mikkel Clair Nissen is a Danish psychologist who has written a book exposing the the life and general psychology of Danish people under socialism. He is so much on the same page as I am on in my blog and he is a passionate spokesperson and an eloquent writer. Perhaps if Americans and Mainer's hear the message from a European living in a deeply entrenched socialists system, the message will be more powerfully conveyed. In this post I show some of teh correlation between what Mr Nissen discusses and what is taking place in Maine as the government has been incrementally transformed from a state to a corporation http://americanpoliticalphilosophy.blogspot.com/2014/10/introducing-mikkel-clair-nissen_12.html