Preface

May to July 2013

My Camino

Here is the road: the light

comes and goes then returns again.

Be gentle with your fellow travelers

as they move through the world of stone and stars

whirling with you yet every one alone.

The road waits.

Do not ask questions but when it invites you

to dance at daybreak, say yes.

Each step is the journey; a single note the song.  Arlene Gay Levine

Once in every life, one accomplishes something of worth, something seemingly impossible, something that colors her world forever.  That “something” for me was doing the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, from Roncesvalles to Santiago, Spain,  on foot—with a backpack, all 480 miles of it—in May to July 2013.