All roads lead back to Dad…

Why would a man build a house around a 250 ton bluestone boulder?  Because he told his father he would:

One of [John Carson’s] least favorite things is discussing money. How much it cost to build his glass-and-copper-faced house, which took four years to construct, he will not say. He is happy, however, to discuss his dreams for the house, which go back to a walk he and his father took in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, in search of a Christmas tree, when Mr. Carson was a boy.

“We had to walk past a creek and up into an area with a barn that probably hadn’t been used for 50 years,” Mr. Carson says. It “had fallen, dilapidated, over a huge face cliff. I was about 7 years old and I said, ‘Pop, some day I’m gonna build a house and the fourth wall is gonna be a rock.’ I looked for that rock for 40 years.”

Somehow it makes absolutely perfect sense to me.