How can three simple letters on a printed page - I. S. I. - signal a momentous shift in a person’s future? A future to be played out in a land half the world away, in a setting quite unlike any encountered before? (OK, ISI is not three letters. Just two. One getting repeated) When shifts occur in our lives (they come to us all), we find ourselves carried into new and different ‘spaces.’ We may meet them with wonder or trepidation or adventure. Or another kind of emotion.