Right now, I'm spending a lot of my energy protesting Buju Banton's upcoming performance at Madison Square Garden. I'm assuming you've already seen the recent videos of the gay bashings going on in Jamaica. I'm not going to get into the details here and I'm definitely not ready to blog about it yet. Suffice it to say that engaging in this confrontation is more than a notion.

But you know what? Here one of those songs that reminds me of what we could be - "Happy Feelings" by MAZE featuring Frankie Beverly. Singing it for us, may I present my good friend, the legendary singer/songwriter Sandra St. Victor ...



Hearing her sing it always make me want to cry. That song is so beautiful; it's so much about US, about everybody just being together and happy and living in peace. I'm sad because I look around and we seem so far from what this song describes, but hearing Sandra sing it makes me feel like, even in the midst of the violence, the devastation and the utter lack of love that is rampant in our world, it still might be possible ...