<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Monica Hesse:: "As I stood with the tour groups & the lunch crowd & the tired families pushing strollers and doling out juice boxes - as I stood in this completely free institution that exists for no other reason than to help America learn something about itself, that was the most shocking realization of all: The Smithsonian is not filled w/hatred toward our busted, struggling, awesome country; it is filled with the deepest love, & that is what I learned at the museum." Thanks Monica!</p>
