My body is so awesome at telling me to slow down. Really. I feel like my sinuses are one of those beeping alarms that go off in new cars when you’re backing up and get too close to another car or something. I get my engine going and I’m rearing to go and my sinuses are like BEEP BEEP BEEP.

Yeah.

Beep (sniff).

So I’m a wee under the weather, which is a shocker to well, no one, and I’m trying to be good to myself and sleep and nip these sniffles in the bud. 

I did, however, want to pass along an amazing video and kudos to my dear Emily, who choreographed and directed a FLASH MOB this past weekend for SF Pride.  In case you don’t spent regular hours on YouTube, a flash mob is a huge seemingly spontaneous dance that happens in a public space. The most famous ones were orchestrated at a few train stations in Europe, where music started blaring and hundreds of “travelers” busted out in an amazing choreographed number, only to walk away as if nothing had happened as soon as the music stopped.

So after a month of rehearsals and secretive word-of-mouth, about 60 of us gathered as spectators at the main stage of San Francisco’s Gay Pride Festival and when the music started…

Incredibly, the video went viral and was featured on this morning’s Huffington Post!! (Note, you cannot see me at all, I was holding down the back border on the left side. So you know, those people got an awesome view of my backside.)

So I just want to say thanks to Emmy (for her idea, perseverance, and dedication in this last month) and to all of the other dancers.  It was a true honor to stand up for marriage equality and I must say, more than the political strides made here, I felt like I was a part of the history of San Francisco in a way I’d never felt before. I have had the distinct pleasure of growing up in the Bay Area, where civil rights, equality, acceptance, and peace thrive — in many ways I’ve never known anything else.

So thank you, San Francisco. Yours is a bubble I am happy to have been raised in.

We go together,

L