Most days, the exuberant youngster offers high-fives and chatters happily with her teachers and fellow preschoolers at Wellspring Early Learning Center.

ON ALBUQUERQUE’S industrial northern fringe, down a side street flanked by auto-parts stores, I found the wellspring of American beer.

Curious that he thought of these as “levels” rather than, say, opposing or co-equal wellsprings of inspiration.