MINNESOTA'S "MISSISSIPPI" RIVER

MINNESOTA’S MISSISSIPPI RIVER “Liberal” Minnesota is still home of the headwaters of the mighty Mississippi River at Lake Itasca, Minnesota. There it leaves the Lake Itasca Park, and heads north for miles, before reversing course, and flowing south, bisecting the nation, before falling upon the Gulf of Mexico. Our family wet our feet, ritually, there in its headwaters. In doing so, we were paying homage to our Missouri, Mississippi Louisiana, forbears, whom its waters had metamorphosed, spiritually, vitally, culturally, indeed, prolifically. We were on vacation, at Itasca, after having attended the annual National Bar Association convention of black lawyers in Minneapolis in 2006, as was our then-customary summer family adventure. Amen.