In His Footsteps

Born on a stump farm in the hinterlands of a Northwestern state Andrew Stricker follows an uneven fragmented path in a variety of roles - farm hand menial jobs steel worker soldier air-craft electrician fire-fighter and country western musician. <br><br>As the latter he traveled in Europe for eighteen years in a converted German mail truck. He experienced life from the murky depths to the ethereal and the language is appropriate to the subject.<br><br>Eight years into the European trip while camped by the shores of the Black Sea in Romania he discovers that he has been blessed with the divine gift of laying-on-of-hands healing.<br><br>The book is a travelogue social political sexual and spiritual odyssey.<br><br>It is a mighty effort to bridge the gap between John of the Cross and Henry Miller.