SOURCES

SOURCES The sources of springs, rivers, and things, teach us much about their offsprings. You are what you are. Nascence is given by its source. Therefore, knowing sources is smart. Reading an author 's sources reveals its degree of rigor. Perusing a politician 's election funding sources, or a television program 's advertising revenue sources, tells you whose interests they are representing in earnest. What are the sources of your religion or philosophy? Have you investigated them to their sources? Some years ago, our family visited Lake Itaska, Minnesota, the source of the Mighty Mississippi River. We traveled north from Minneapolis at the conclusion of the National Bar Association Convention that year. We were able to walk around in this placid pool of water in bare feet. In addition to the headiness of that epic realization, we were further surprised to learn that in parts of Minnesota, the Mississippi also flows north, like the Nile, before then heading south past St. Louis, Memphis, Vicksburg, and New Orleans, into the Gulf of Mexico. Sources teach the truth! Find them!