CREATIVITY

Henry David Thoreau once said, "the world is but a canvas to our imaginations". In these rather unsettled times, with economical collapse, world country unrest, excessive stimulus program uncertainty, we look for vision and creativity and above all guidance. Henry David Thoreau was a man of vision and in his various writings, namely CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, he sought a better government. One of his most enigmatic quotes, ‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.” I often wonder if our elected officials should heed. Or maybe his self imposed sabbatical of two years, two months and two days on Walden Pond would be a better respite for our President. Thoreau's ideologies and works influenced the likes of John F. Kennedy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Tolstoy among a host of literary giants such as Hemingway, Yeats, and B.F. Skinner. And certainly Thoreau, being such an environmentalist and naturalist would be turning over in his grave to learn of global warming. Here's to Thoreau, a man of creativity and vision.