"Flagging in the Park" has become an annual celebration in the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. Trying to be diligent, I wouldn't let myself walk over to the party until after I had gotten most of the Saturday chores done—but it was such a great time and a beautiful day I wish I had left more of my domestic work undone. While I did not join in with the flagging, it was hard to resist the dancing—the DJ was amazing and I was properly schooled for not knowing who DJ Susan Morabito is. She played such a fun all-day set of celebratory highs, grooves, downslides and climaxes. So. Much. Fun.
I took some fun pics, and some video clips (that pic above is supposed to be animated). The accompanying music, Brendan James' The Lucky Ones, is clearly not the style of music everyone was flagging to, but as I was walking to work and thinking of putting together a clip video, this song came on my iPod's playlist and just seemed to fit. We are the lucky ones—the lovers, the thrivers, and the survivors. We celebrate not the loss, but the lives.
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