Everyday Epics

"...The greatest dilemmas facing humanity are still landlessness, homelessness, and hunger...But today our televisions and newspapers tell us about these fundamental problems more quickly and more simply than literature can ever do. What literature needs most to tell and investigate today are humanity's basic fears: the fear of being left outside, and the fear of counting for nothing, and the feelings of worthlessness that come with such fears; the collective humiliations, vulnerabilities, slights, grievances, sensitivities, and imagined insults, and the nationalist boasts and inflations that are their next of kind [sic]."

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, from his 2006 Nobel lecture.

Everyday Epics founder Marrton Dormish made pilgrimage on El Camino de Santiago (The Way of St. James) in Northern Spain in 2001. This pocket-sized book integrates his reflections as a pilgrim with historical research and fictional recreation in order to re-imagine what might have set St. James on a path to become the subject of Camino legends in the first place. Indirectly tied to the story of need shared on this site, On the Way is a companion for the faith journey of individuals and groups, alike.