Over times these truths grow into ideas, plans and ideologies. And these ideologies dry up in droughts of energy and interest and become weathered from day-to-day living and the cacophony of scrutiny of a million people.

But in the center, there is a kernel.

It is a person's job to collect these kernels and to raise a garden of ideas, whose fruits can nourish them and others in their life. We are farmers, and we cultivate a crop of truth.

We have to collect our seeds, however. And you can find them in the strangest places.