By Steven O. Evans, PhD
Dear Readers,
How did you celebrate Pride month? A parade, a festival, posting on social media, volunteering, or a day to yourself? When I started OutClique magazine, one of my themes was, “Just do you.” I still stand by that today.
One of our articles this month features Avi Ram, muralist and body painter. His canvases include large walls of buildings, the human body, and other mediums. His level of spatial intelligence, coupled with his sense of color, and utilizing his eye/hand coordination, Avi moves creations in his mind to two and three dimensional renderings that redefine the word “art.”
Friend, what’s inside you to create? To be? To make the world a better place? Your “spiritual gift” does not have to be the size of a building, but it can make the same impact.
I challenge you, this post-Pride-rainbow filled month, to go out, and Paint Your World.
May happiness be abounding.¹
Dr. Steven²
¹Dr. Angela Easterday-Holder, former Chair and Professor of Music at Carson-Newman University and choir member Immanuel Baptist Church, Lexington, KY (www.ibclex.org)
²Dr. Jane McEldowney Jensen, doctoral supervisor. Director of Graduate Studies, Educational Policy Studies & Education. University of Kentucky, College of Education. Dissertation title: Pediatrics education in an AHEC setting: Preparing students to provide patient centered medicine. A research study of ways that medical students learn patient centered medicine through their rotations in AHEC clinical settings.
