Why Geese Fly Farther Than Eagles

Storyteller Bob Stromberg offers a cornucopia of wisdom and wonder for the child in all of us. Here is a celebration of being alive!Life?s lessons don?t come in neat packages and Stromberg brings that fact home to us with humor and an uncanny ability to savor the sights, sounds, smells, and feelings that come with the human condition. Small boy, young man, wise father, tender husband; Bob Stromberg has a knack for getting under the skin of the obvious and coming up with fresh insights on the art of livingThe great themes of life are illustrated in simple stories and moving reminiscences. From a rowboat out on Stinky Bay to Grandpa?s rocky Pennsylvania farm to the Bangu River in Zaire, you?ll treasure lessons about living like:? Why a goose can fly farther than any eagle dares to go? Having the sense to know where you belong, and where you don?t? Discovering the sanctity of life in a showdown with a rat? Treasuring the gift of a father?s love on an agonizing ride to the hospital? The sweetness of reconciliation and forgiveness on a long, wet April dayThis sunny memoir is funny, wise, beautiful, and full of the juices of life. Combining the child?s sense of wonder with the adult?s intelligence, Stromberg helps us find glory in the mundane and the magnificent.