Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

Bird watchers and I include myself in that category, listen to the world the way that I listen to the world. And that is with our ears wide open. So open that any scratch in the leaves, any faint scratch in the leaves has us looking for a white throated sparrow.

I realized the one thing I didn't have access to in my high school was art history education. My parents loved going to museums. I'm from Toledo, Ohio. We have a fantastic museum, Toledo Museum of Art. So I spent a lot of time there as a child and a teen and went to every museum I could traveling.

I think there is, frankly in all these things, a bit of risk. People still engage in it because they love being out in the purity of that kind of nature. And also because they like the rush of it. There is that factor that you just have to own up to that you like that kind of thing.