06/25/2017 (8:30AM)
6/26/2017(5:00AM) San Francisco, CA (PRIDE WEEK)
I awoke early morning, bored yet
content. Throughout the day, I watch the Pride week gala event come together
from Civic Center. And through the day, I was content with the extent by which
I could be an enthusiastic participant, but then next year uhmmm-thus I was content
with possibilities and the reality of my San Francisco visit/home in
development (all is going fine). Under these conditions, it did not
surprise me, that by the end of the day, men would arrive and to remedy much:
and I would accept their invitations and elude risk, as with the latter.
Amazingly those invitations "catapulted"
me into an elated state of joy and I leaped blindly into the festivities of
Diversity being celebrated in the Bay Area, Pride Day. Aloof as I was, the
vivid energy of internal individual joy, collective radiated outwardly and I
fighting a bite of paranoia (smoked a joint/ stress leave do me better) wondered
about the city on foot to heights of Castro far found the celebrations winding
down after 9:00PM! I busted into laughter, laughing with myself realizing that
I was lost, and I had forgotten the delight acquired being lost in an
unfamiliar city. I decided to enjoy as much of the energy of the city
night skyline, the hills and hills, and the remaining people as they slowly
became few.
Today I was finishing reading Walden
by Thoreau. I read the chapter, The Village. In that chapter Thoreau
expresses;
" In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though
unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known BEACONS and
HEADLANDS, and if we go beyond our usual course we still bear in mind the
bearing of some neighboring cape: and not till we are completely LOST,...do we
appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature. Every man has to learn the
points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or
abstraction. Not till we are lost in other words, do we begin to find
ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our
relations..."
Thus it is not possible to have mal
feelings towards those men who arrived with remedies and risk. With intent or
not! Their effort (appreciated) afforded me the opportunity to be as I have in other
locations, lost in delightment. By which I rekindled in spirit, the infinite
extent of my relations: Past, Present and that which will come to be. And truly
enjoyed being lost in such a beautiful city within the aura of celebration that
radiated UNCONDITIONAL RESPECTFUL LOVE! It reminded me of being one of the
original student body members of the first LGBT Groups on the University of New
Mexico Campus (1995) WoW, times have changed for the WE THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA! May it continue!
San Francisco LBGT Pride Week/Day
6/25/2017
