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Let if Shine Kicking off the first full day of this year's symposium with a jolt of energizing insight, Teleflora's Marie Ackerman AIFD led an exploration into the nature of creativity. "Everyone has it, but few develop it to its potential," she asserted. Along the way she presented compositions inspired by color and by potent symbols like circles, masks and butterflies. Her tiling bouquet" (at right), based on a $7 wire form for a hanging basket, later won $1,500 at auction for the AIFD Foundation,which provides funding for AIFD scholarships and programming. White lilies (above), stripped of their leaves and supported by a grid of curly willow beneath the blossoms, symbolized the pure beauty of the creative soul, while a flock of butterflies (topright) drove home to the audience the power of connection, transformation, and what can happen "when we all fly in the same direction."