I guess everyone enjoys a little change. However, not everyone kicks over the cart and begins again. This is a brief essay on trigger emotion leading to change. The story of how a Purdue University civil engineer, of enormous consequence in Alaska, picks up on his wife's interest in taking a Ph.D. in Mathematics' from Montana State University. How that decision leads to another life in another place, and how today, when Jim Nelson stands in the Bozeman Montana U.S Post Office, a tourist will approach him and say "I can tell by your outfit that you are a cowboy." 

From the Ross Stewart Andrew Studio in Seattle