The Joker lives in The Musical Kingdom. He has everything: prestige, power, respect. Yet, he feigns happiness, wondering all the while - is there more to life? It's his mysterious friend, The Pied Piper, who tells him of a certain path. It's a narrow way and only a few ever find it. It leads to The Great Cascade. Those who have followed this path claim it's the only way to love, peace, and courage. Seeking is difficult. Finding is daunting. Choice is the biggest challenge of all. What will The Joker choose?

It's the 1960's when Vickie begins her search for purpose in life. The Vietnam War headlines the news. Hippies are roaming the hillsides proclaiming free love and marijuana for all. Flower children handing out carnations, claim to hold the key to world peace. Rock musicians sing tunes to give an emotional high into worlds of non-conformity. It's all a mixture where things unrealistic get passed on as realism after all. It's in this world of half-truths that Vickie encounters the realities of God. Her spiritual journey begins. In the years to follow, there are times when her thoughts go in a topsy-turvy, whirlwind spin of praise and adoration to God one moment, and self-doubt and despondency the next. On these pages, Vickie shares her journey of discovering God. Both joy and pain accompany her along the way, but guiding the entire expedition is The Master Potter Himself.

In 1991, Vickie J. Blair embarks on an adventure to the USSR. She is the first foreigner to teach in the English Language Department at the University of Kyrgyzstan. Shortly after arriving, the Soviet Union collapses. Caught in the middle of the birth of a country, Vickie seizes opportunities to help in the struggling economy. She forms a humanitarian organization, assisting the country with medical, educational, and social concerns. As the work grows she faces one obstacle after another, including surveillance by the police and threats from Islamic followers. Even so, she has a powerful reason to endure - God has led her to this land.

Dr. Vickie J Blair has worked with Christians in economically poor situations and those persecuted for their faith. Now she, too, finds crisis knocking on her door. Join Vickie as she shares her heart through a period of time that was definitely - a year not wanted.