Knowledge like water ...

I was thinking, last week, about how facts are like water drops.

We are deluged with information at all times, and technology has only heightened this tendency. We are standing outside and getting rained on – facts pelting us like raindrops -- possibly just a light drizzle in good times, and torrential downpour in others.

If we want to make sense of all of this, we need to become storytellers. Our job is to collect the rain and allow it to flow into a river. The river becomes the story, the channel for all this information.

Either way, we have to get wet.

But when rain flows as a river, at least we get somewhere.