Earlier this week, while driving downtown, I observed, from my traffic-jammed location, a family of geese (two adults and six goslings) make a treacherous roadside outing through a busy, messy intersection that was under construction. Curbside, the eight of them waddled around a blind turn. I feared that an unsuspecting driver might not see them and brush by them too closely; I also feared that the geese were oblivious to the intersection’s danger and that those goslings might waddle directly into the unforgiving traffic.
But in a move that made my eyes widen then prickle with tears, I watched these geese-parents competently shepherd their babes along the curb, safely keeping their family out of harm’s way, and guiding them along to wherever they were going.
I was stunned.
The goose family strikes me as relevant for a few reasons.
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