Audio & video of Wynton Marsalis' outstanding "Nancy Hanks Arts & Arts Policy Lecture" is now available! ping.fm/k5JeO

very proud of the Vermont legislature!

fellow VT'ers to contact your district rep and the Governor's office, and urge their support of the equal rights civil marriage bill.

*sighs* Cabbie tried to drop me at international departures. He though Vermont was in Canada!!

met w/Senator Leahy & a member of Senator Sanders staff this AM. VT is lucky; they SO get the arts!

having breakfast w/Josh Groban, some Congressmen, and other arts advocates on Capitol Hill. GOOD morning.

just heard Wynton Marsalis give the most powerful lecture on arts and identity, ever. Moved all to tears, incl. him.

attending a lecture/concert by Wynton at the Kennedy Center.

an fyi: the arts industry generates $166.2 billion & employs 3 million ppl.