http://blog.sfmoma.org/2012/02/diary-of-a-crazy-artist-day-3-on-killing-monday-3/ Sat, 25 May 2013 00:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.sfmoma.org/2012/02/diary-of-a-crazy-artist-day-3-on-killing-monday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-139173 Stella Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:18:23 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=38009#comment-139173 Hagerty is family friend (in fact I shared a name with her first Swan for the Palace) and those swans are close to my heart. I sometimes still think of Monday too, but then a much happier story comes to mind about when Hagerty and my Mom and my younger brother and I went to pick up Stella the Fella in the North Bay. The farm was a child’s paradise and we ran around like it was our own private zoo. The breeders had so many other birds including chicks that lived in their house with them. My 11 year old self saw this as the equivalent to a live action Disney movie. We put Stella in the back of my mom minivan and drove back to The City. Unfortunately the mamamobile was unequipped for swan transportation and the bird shat all over the car leaving the adults horrified but my brother and I giggling at the idea of swan poop. Anyway the release of Stella into the Palace was phenomenal and inspirational and it just felt so RIGHT to have swans in that lake. Hagerty has had so much love for these birds over the years despite numerous acts of violence seen in the lake ( http://tinyurl.com/swanviolence ). Anyway I just thought I would share the story as those swans are so San Francisco and I thought there should be a happy story up here too.

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