Award-winning author Susan Spann was the guest on this edition of Ancient-Future Faith to talk not about her popular "Shinobi Mystery" series, but rather the real-life-changing events that led her to climb 100 mountains in Japan. A former member and friend to many of us at Epiclesis, Susan now resides in Japan where she lives-- fully and wonderfully-- and writes about Japanese culture. Susan was already familiar with the country and its history through years of academic study and her series of fictional mysteries chronicling the lives of the Samurai Hiro Hattori and his Jesuit sidekick Father Mateo. But it was after a diagnosis of breast cancer, chemotherapy, and 100 of Japan's most famous mountains that she left safe (and fear) behind, found strength, and came to know her adopted country intimately.