"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night." Walt Whitman Nature not only soothes and calms us in our uncertain world. Nature has inspired so m

"Creativity is yoga for the brain." - Phyllis Korkki, Productivity Author Am I seeing more creativity, or just looking for it, during these unprecedented and uncertain times? With more time for introspection or, perhaps, boredom, are people motivated to be more creative? Or is it as Gina Gibney, artistic director of a New York-based dance company, says, "In life we experience so much fragmentation of thought and feeling. For me, creating art brings things back together." Th