Everyday Epics

"I will say, from my own belief and experience, that imagination thrives on contact, on tangible connection. For humans to have a responsible relationship to the world, they must imagine their places in it. To have a place, to live and belong in a place, to live from a place without destroying it, we must imagine it. By imagination we see it illuminated by its own unique character and by our love for it. By imagination we recognize with sympathy the fellow members, human and nonhuman, with whom we share our place. By that local experience we see the need to grant a sort of preemptive sympathy to all the fellow members, the neighbors, with whom we share the world. As imagination enables sympathy, sympathy enables affection. And it is in affection that we find the possibility of a neighborly, kind, and conserving economy."

--- Wendell Berry, "It All Turns On Affection," Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, given on April 23, 2012, in Washington, D.C.

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 re-creation 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.