The Author’s hope is that you will cry, laugh and with an open mind think as you read from chapter to chapter. The ranch was located within the Kootney Indian Reservation. This gave the young boy the blessings to learn much from of the Indian,s culture and their closeness to Mother Nature. The animals on the ranch and the wild animals in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area taught him much about life and how to deal with man and animal. How to live with ease around others and most important at ease with himself. The boys life was not short for he leaned some thing new each day. He had a large box so he did not have to think outside the box. Whither the glass was half full or half empty he leaned that now the glass needed to be washed.