Person is Not a Rude Word

queers can be out & proud – yet feel alienated foto credit: LRs, Mx: 0811

This weekend in Brighton sees and hears the cacophony of hues and whoops that is the LGB&T Pride experience.  The rainbow-beflagged parade ends up in the city’s inland Preston Park.  The theme of this year’s Pride is Gay Icons…

Like as not, the cacophony will be too much for my Aspie ears… and I will beat a retreat after my leisurely non-march-ride atop the Mind Out bus (see link below for this FAB & award-winning mental health support organisation). I will also, this year, be washing out the splurge of hot colours with a black & white photo shoot of the happening – for a ‘Queer in Brighton’ oral/visual history project…

http://www.mindout.org.uk/

The Rotunda café in Preston Park. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I proudly proffer an ‘alternative rainbow-flagged experience’ – equally chromatic but otherwise peaceful; ie. the iconically ‘gay’ (as in ‘cheery’…) English garden spectrum of colour – from hot magenta to soothing lilac&pinc: above is a sample mosaic of the 120+ varieties of plants, captured on mobile fone camera in one July afternoon, within the walled garden – at the far end of Preston Park, Brighton…

After the extended winter, the flowers this year have gone bloomin’ bonkers… and they have treated me to a daily ‘therapy session’ via the window boxes, front gardens and parks of the city.  You too can have a colour therapeutic treat with my 17:17-minute-long, (silent) ‘spectrum-meditation-experience’ video below (fluidly-fashioned from aforementioned macro-flora-foto shoot)…  It could save you loads of dosh in treatments and stimulants as it is guaranteed* to balance your chakras at least a bit – and refresh the parts that sugar / nicotine / alcohol / caffeine / shopping / chocolate won’t…

[ * I am a diploma’d and cert-ifi-cated colour therapist, but please do check with your medical practitioner before undertaking any strenuous walks in your neighbourhood to imbibe some floraflag vibrations… ]

The fotovideo has a certain amount of black screen time (at beginning and end) to allow you to settle into your relaxed – yet upright – viewing position at start, and to come back into your viewing space – revivified & rainbowized…

Enjoy and Rejuvenate!

[ for definition of the colloquial Anglo-English term ” bloomin’ ” 
 and Sanskrit term “chakra” – see Glossary Category post… ]