I have a few minutes.  I haven’t packed yet and we are catching the 1015 ferry for the airport so I will dilly dally with you to the max for as long as I can.  We have a whirlwind trip to San Francisco unfolding and you will hear all about it in the next few days.

In the meantime we had our showing of Phil’s Camino last night for fourteen young doctors mostly in the cancer rehab field.   My rehab doc, callsign Danger Zone, and I gave them the royal song and dance.  They loved the film and came up with the most penetrating questions.  Those kind of situations always lead to the feeling that there is not enough time, that we could go on all night.

And I learned lots last night and realized one overarching thing.  I have to jump back in time to start this.  At one point I had a vision that I had three lifelines that I was relying on to get me through my cancer situation.  And part of my vision was that I was braiding them together to make a strong cord.  But the three were, one all my doctors, nurses, family members and friends; two my spiritual connection through church and my bible class and three the Camino.  Sister Joyce quickly filled me in that this corresponds to the three pillars of Christian life, community, faith and service.  Ahh, said Felipe.

Then it has been one year since we started speaking to audiences about Phil’s Camino.  A friend just had a post on FB this morning about being off to the South By South West Film Festival in Austin.  That is the memoriable place where we had our premiere one year ago.   So since then we have talked with numerous audiences and they are sorting out in four catagories for me now after all this time.  We started out being with general audiences at all the festivals which was fine and haphazardly there would be individuals that were memoriable.  And since then we have been with targeted audiences.  One that we did often were church/ religious audiences that were very present and asked great questions.  Two were Camino groups of American and Canadian pilgrims that were very enthusiastic and right there.  All great.

But now since last night with the inclusion of the doctors group I have a new category.  They were so there with the film and the questions and the banter.  So let’s review, there is the general which I am going to put aside as the control group. And then there are doctors, church and Camino groups.  Seeing anything there?  These three connections line up perfectly with my community, faith and Camino lifelines.  I just put this together for myself this AM.  I am getting vital help and energy from those three lifelines and they are getting it back from me.  Yea, a moment of clarity.

So, that is pretty important to me to see my way a little more clearly and I will be more effective in the future.  It’s time for me to pack my saddlebags and get ready to go.  Its a long road but it is bearable if we have each other and we can make it easy on ourselves.  Thanks, love you, Felipe.

PS – and hence the title of this post.  Phil’s Camino was supposed to be made is my conclusion.  So may disjointed and quirky and unrelated factors cast together that there had to be some form of higher power involved.  Maybe a whole lot of St James.