"I gave my son, David, to Madonna with all my heart!"

Need anything more be said that could add to the beautiful words spoken by Yohanda Banda, 32, the father of little David seen in the photo to the left with Madonna? Seldom do I become upset with Human Rights organizations, but they all seem to be piling on Madonna ... much like music lovers piled on Modonna after one of the most touching musical operas I have experienced was released by Hollywood, many, many years back. [I'm speaking, of course, of Evita.]

Our family has been through several international adoptions and another is underway even as I am keying this in. If these organizations were truly concerned about the problem, they would be encouraging others to, not discouraging others from, adopting children from countries where their options would be limited to none.

For the most part, we live in a two-tiered world ... you're either at the top or the bottom in far too many countries ... especially in Africa and most of Asia. The problem isn't only Malawi's problem; it's the problem of regions as large as China and its peripheral countries, a huge swath through the Middle East and nearly all of Central Africa (Malawi, by the way, is in southern Africa) ... and that's only for starters.

In this one little incident, involving one small child, the world is looking at itself. The child's mother died in childbirth; his likelihood of even surviving into full adulthood is less than the average Americans' chances are of reaching 95.

Little David's father said the following: "If Madonna gives David back, he will end up dead like his siblings ... Madonna, whatever is happening, maybe it's because you are famous, that's why all this is happening ... please be strong and don't give up the fight ... my David will be a good son to you."

With so many wars and politics and famines and horrors of all kinds worldwide ... isn't it beautiful to read little David Banda's father's words and imagine the great life ahead for little David and his "mother," Madonna?

This world needs more to be homogenized with bonds of love than to have billion dollar hate-fences built between us ... like the fence approved by President Bush this week between Mexico and the United States of America! The picture at the top of this posting isn't just a picture of two beautiful people ... and love. It's a dream we all should have of the world of tomorrow where poverty is a thing of the past and beauty can shine ... even in a blurry picture like the one above of two persons who depend on each other ... and not on meaningless arguments in bars across America and beyond ... or worse, on a morsel of food or an unavailable medication.