Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Is it really possible to create a national conversation?

I suppose I have always lived with folks telling me "that can't be done!" and my response has always been Edgar Guest's poem "It Couldn't Be Done" and I've gone ahead and tried to do whatever it was anyway. As a result, I have accomplished many of those "couldn't be done" things. Creating a national conversation of getting folks to start talking about the closets folks are hiding secretly in must be accomplished; therefore I am asking for everyone's help to start talking about these closets. They are not healthy to be living in and must be brought to the forefront of thinking if folks are going to be helped out. Living in a lie cannot possibly be a comfort zone! And, when one thinks about the fact that there is a light of support or help awaiting anyone who may decide to come out of their closet, then it becomes stupid to stay in.

To help folks learn about the closets, I have decided to give them names. Take for instance the closet hiding the secret lives lived by homosexuals: I've called this one the "Home Away From Homo Closet". Then there is the "Hot Pants Closet" and the "Prescription Closet" and the "Freaked -Out Parents Closet". Anyway you begin to get the idea. We need to learn about folks in these closets and why they are still there and what it might take to help them come out.

*** EDIT *** 2/4/08
Dr. Ronald Spahr, Prof. & Chair Dept. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate. University of Memphis may not be connected with the Fields of Psychology or Sociology, but he shall help us look at closet life from the standpoint of the Business world, Academia, and being a parent and husband. He has a fertile brain that is pregnant with ideas.

I have also sought Grad Students involved in psychology, sociology & education to become involved; we will begin with Jake Duckett, Wichita State University, who additionally is involved in the Sports world and body-building. I am hoping others who are Grad students in the Fields of Psychology, Sociology and Education will enlist in this army,