Free Museum Tuesday

Today many museums around the Bay Area are free. Since I am currently seeking employment I have free time on my hands to do things, but not that much money to spend on them, hence the FREE part being especially attractive to me at this time.

Today I think I'll check out the Legion of Honor and SOMA. I'm particularly interested in seeing Rodin's The Thinker in person. I have seen it replicated and made a farce of so many times in cartoons and advertisements. I wonder if it will have the same effect on me that seeing Mt. Rushmore did. I laughed out loud when I saw those faces in the mountain side. I had for so long associated it with playful jokes and satire, that seeing the real thing was quite funny at first. After about five minutes of being there, I was swept up by the nature of the place and the challenge of carving it in the first place, and was nearly tearful in my reverence. Quite the range of emotions!