Tuesday
Jun122012
My borrowed life of weekday leisure
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 10:20AM
A couple of weeks ago at lunch at the deYoung Museum with my mother-in-law after we’d taken in the so-good Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit, I was struck by how many people there were in the museum restaurant. The place was packed. There were tables full of people all around us and outside in the middle of a warm Thursday, and not all of them retirees, a din of happy voices rising. People my age and younger, too, all at a museum in the middle of a weekday. I asked myself my usual question at times like these:
Who are these people who get to do this?