Optimism is underrated. We all get so caught up in the sturm und drang of our lifes. Worrying and complaining become second nature -something to do on the phone, on the bus, while waiting for our number to be called at the bagel shop. One of the milion things that art can do -and do better than almost anything else can (okay, except maybe for a smiling baby, or a hedgehog, or dark chocolate, or a smiling baby hedgehog made of dark chocolate)- is to break the cycle of our days, pull us from the fog of our own minds, force us to look and see and think anew.