There were a lot of steps that led me to decide to walk the ancient spiritual pilgrimage known as the Camino de Santiago, and I am not sure that I am even conciously aware of all of them yet.  I read Shirley Maclaine's account of her Camino last May, and was enchanted with the idea.  Even so, I don't think I seriously thought I would be able to do it for all the usual reasons; time, logistics, and the steel plate in my leg.  However, when I got a phone call from my friend Lydia Smith, a talented documentary film maker and a licensed prayer practitioner from my church, Agape, I started to think differently.  Unbeknownst to me, while I had been reading Shirley Maclaine's book, Lydia had been walking the Camino.  She hadn't told a lot of people she was going to walk it, she just sort of up and did it, and she LOVED it!  She was so moved and inspired by the experience that she decided that she wanted to make her next documentary about it.  She told me this on the phone as we were catching up after not having spoken for a while.  The next thing I knew, she told me that she was looking for someone to walk it while she shot the documentary and would I be interested.  Well, I was definitely interested, but I hemmed and hawed, worried about my leg.  When I told my husband about it later, he said, call her right back and tell her that you'll do it!  I did, and, well, here I am, counting the days until I go!  Sometimes we need a wake-up call to say 'YES!' - or at least I do, anyway.