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Social Art, or The Love Bead Safe Harbor Pin Project Rides Again!

Remember when I announced that we had finished The Love Bead Safe Harbor Pin Project? Turns out we weren’t done — we just didn’t know it yet. This project really began in late November of 2016. By the end of … Continue reading

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Love Bead Safe Harbor Pin Project: Lessons Learned #1, Do It Scared

Back when I was a Girl Scout, I volunteered to pull the wagon full of cookie boxes if the other girl would ring doorbells and ask people to buy cookies. I like people, but I’m an introvert, and shy. Talk … Continue reading

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The Love Bead Safe Harbor Pin Project: What Was It About?

  In November of 2016, I found myself increasingly distressed by the tone of civic life, not just in America, but around the world. There was a new level of just plain, low-down meanness. Name calling, threats… it seemed as … Continue reading

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Pin Tales: The De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

This was one of those that was both not as good as I expected, and much, much better. Because The De Young Museum is running a “summer of love” – themed exhibition, I thought this would be a great place … Continue reading

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Pin Tales: Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco

This is the stop that almost didn’t  happen. I was tired and dejected after our stop in the Haight Ashbury district. It wasn’t that people had rejected the Safe Harbor Pin — most of them had no idea they were … Continue reading

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