"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland on night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way."
That is one of my favorite quotes from Donald Miller's book Blue Like Jazz.
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This is how it relates to my life.
"I never liked waterfowl, because I didn't know the species and I had never seen them fill the sky. But I was at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge one afternoon when I saw the sky filled with geese. I just stood there and I watched them.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way."
This is one of the things that I have learned from my one year of being able to be at Mingo NWR. I didn't know about Cyprus swamps and I didn't really care about duck/goose habitat and migrations. Now I do.
