I went hiking with Martin Ogle, a park naturalist from the Washington, DC, area. He told me a story that I found significant at so many levels that it takes on parable-like qualities. His park used to offer a program called the Beaver Cruise. People would come and take a ranger-led paddle through the park’s marsh. Every time, they would see lots of wildlife. Maybe a bald eagle or geese or beaver or muskrats or …. Every time something wonderful happened. But they wouldn’t always see beaver. And if they didn’t see beaver, some people left feeling disappointed – even though lots of other wonderful things had happened. So they changed the name of the program to the Wildlife Cruise. Now everyone is happy.
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