New Documentary

This is a link to a Camino documentary that is slowly making its way across the US.  It's self-funded, go and see it if it comes to your town.  It follows six people as they walk the Camino Frances in the spring of 2009 from St. Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela.  The producer is Lydia B. Smith, and she had walked the previous year herself.  It does a good job of conveying the community and the individual struggles we all go through, such as the physical (foot issues, tendonitis, etc) and the mental (the belief that you need to prove something that you really don't need to prove-such as walking further than your body wants to go; or physically conquering anything.)  You'll probably recognize places (physical and within yourself) if you have walked before. 

If not, it gives a good sense of the adventure and the beauty of the walk.  Don't let the hardships put you off.  (Before the screening I saw, she asked how many people wanted to walk, and most people raised their hands; after the film, she asked again, and there were fewer hands raised.)  If you feel drawn to go, there's usually a reason, find a way to go.  (I had internal urgings four times, the first with an actual date in my mind.  Maybe there is a conversation or experience you need to have, or someone you need to meet.)  Sometimes life calls you to do strange things, like take a month away from your everyday life and walk across a country amongst strangers who become friends, and to find time for contemplation and to listen to yourself and the quiet voice inside you.  Time to find your inner guidance and your own truth.

Anyway, here's a link to the film's website. http://www.caminodocumentary.org/

Buen Camino!