Because I’m Happy!

Happy for those who use their voice and their art on a national platform to be the change they want for the world:

• Pharrell William’s Be Happy performance.  The dancers wearing hoodies to honor Trayvon Martin. Pharrell and the dancers incorporating the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture used by protestors from Ferguson to Milwaukee to cities all over the country.

• Domestic abuse survivor Brooke Axtell using spoken word. Her voice making a powerful statement to raise awareness of the insipid violence, especially against women.  She closed with these words:

“Your voice will save you. Let it extend into the night.  Let it part the darkness.  Let is set you free to know who you truly are – valuable, beautiful, loved.”

• POTUS’s anti domestic violence message.

• Prince’s words prior to announcing the album of the year winner:

“Like books and black lives, albums still matter.”

When we do our work, when we make our art, #ItsOnUs, as POTUS says in his message, “to go as far as our talents and dreams will take us.”

Whether standing on or off a national platform, when you go as far as your talents and dreams will take your perfectly perfect self, you can and will be the change you want for the world.

Be Happy! Be the Change! Glory for All!