It is really good to be using this new feature for the first time. I look forward to making more substantive remarks, but maybe it is more important than I realize. A place for people all over the world to dialogue about things that matter is no small achievement.

At this moment, I am away from New York at an artist's residence in Nebraska and thankful for the opportunity to focus on my work away from day to day concerns. This launch today is too important to me to wait a week to try. I look forward to using it and to encouraging others I know to do the same.

A young woman visual artist here, Julia Karll, is doing a moving project about the state of the world. I will review it and see if I can get some photos of it and her before I leave here.

For now, I must get back to my work.

Hats off to all the women at the WIP who made this happen.