Julie writes--
This must be the first online reference to the growing baby kicking around my womb! I have returned to the de Young three more times since our visit, always in the evening and always longing to return in the quiet morning of a weekday. It's the Hatshepsut exhibit that draws me, and from a smooth oak bench in the special exhibits gallery I can bask in the masculinized and feminized scupltures of this queen Pharoah.
Something about the museum allows me to breathe and flow, more so when light is filtered through the huge panels of glass rather than under the blanket of night. The openess allows a wandering spirit room to daydream with the art, freshly viewing the pilgrim children (as awkward as these portraits seem in their gaudy gilded frames) in their new setting. And, it also enourages stillness, on a tucked-away bench or in a private nook.
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