Fathers and Sons: Creating and Teaching Beauty… In So Many Fatherly Forms

What kind of relationship did you have with your father? Was it about creating and teaching beauty for lifelong appreciation between father and son? Or was it something very different?

If there’s any relationship in human experience in Western society more seemingly doomed to fail, it could seem like it’s the one between fathers and sons. Men have been socialized for so long to live in old tropes of toughness, few words, and just work, work, work. And thinking that’s what a man should always be, or simply not knowing any better, men have carried that thinking into the parenting of their children, often most especially their sons.