To Live Is To Work. Tales From The Walk Behind Me, NO.11
To Live Is To Work. Tales From The Walk Behind Me, NO.11 A series of short journaled excerpts while walking along the Camino Santiago Norte Route In Spain.
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SUFFERING, IDEAS OF A GOOD TIME. TALES FROM THE WALK BEHIND ME, NO.10
Suffering, Ideas Of A Good Time. Tales From The Walk Behind Me, Tale No. 10. A series of short journaled excerpts while walking along the Camino Santiago Norte Route In Spain.
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SOWN OATS. TALES FROM THE WALK BEHIND ME, NO.9
Sown Oats. Tale No. 9. A series of short journaled excerpts while walking along the Camino Santiago Norte Route In Spain.
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FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED. TALES FROM THE WALK BEHIND ME, NO.8
FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED. TALES FROM THE WALK BEHIND ME, NO.8 A series of short journaled excerpts while walking along the Camino Santiago Norte Route In Spain.
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IF YOU CAN PUSH, YOU CAN PULL. TALES FROM THE WALK BEHIND ME, NO.7
If You Can Push, You Can Pull. Tales From The Walk Behind Me, Tale No. 7. A series of short journaled excerpts while walking along the Camino Santiago Norte Route In Spain.
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CAN’T YOU READ THE SIGN, SIGN, EVERYWHERE A SIGN – TALES FROM THE WALK BEHIND ME, NO.6
“Keep your unsolicited advice to yourself!” Tales From The Walk Behind Me, Tale No. 6. A series of short journaled excerpts while walking along the Camino Santiago Norte Route In Spain.
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THE MAN WHO SPRINTED THE MARATHON – TALES FROM THE WALK BEHIND ME, NO.5
Number 5 of the series, Tales from The Walk Behind Me. A series of journal entries while walking the Camino De Santiago along the Camino Norte Route.
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TALES FROM THE WALK BEHIND ME, NO.4 – THE LEAN, MEAN, AND HIGHLY EMOTIONAL MACHINE.
Number 4 of the series, Tales from The Walk Behind Me. A series of journal entries while walking the Camino De Santiago along the Camino Norte Route.
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TALES FROM THE WALK BEHIND ME, NO.3 – I’m Rich Because Walking Is My Purpose
Number 3 of the series, Tales from The Walk Behind Me. A series of journal entries while walking the Camino De Santiago along the Camino Norte Route.
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Tales From The Walk Behind Me, No.2 – Marvelling Epics, Cliffside Cornfields To The End of The World.
Number 2 of the series, Tales from The Walk Behind Me. A series of journal entries while walking the Camino De Santiago along the Camino Norte Route.
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SKIPPING THE UGLY OUT OF LIFE. Tales From The Walk Behind Me, No.1
Number 1 of the series, Tales from The Walk Behind Me. A series of journal entries while walking the Camino De Santiago along the Camino Norte Route.
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A Story To Learn From: Moving With Pain, Motivation for Personal Betterment.
Move yourself everyday, even if it hurts. A short story on how our pain can sideline us more than necessary. If we want to fast track our betterment with injury, or in life, we must choose our own accountability by facing our barriers everyday.
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Words in Experience- Aging Meaningfully With Death.
Maybe it was whatever thoughts I had just projected into him that brought me to contemplate what his perception of life and experience must be within the memory of his golden years.
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A Year In Review: How I Manifested My World in 2019
For no reason whatsoever, one day in January I felt compelled to video log myself with a quick New Year message into 2019. Perhaps it could have been sparked by my 30th birthday about 2 weeks prior, but what kicked off was a month to month documentation of the intentions of my future in my 30th year alive. Thoughts are powerful, and it is the reason behind Littermature’s motto: Make It Stick, Write It Down.
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In The Prelude of Experience: Intentions of A Camino, 1010+ KM on Foot From the Heels of French Airspace to the Lip of Spanish Waters. Pt. 2.
Continued From: In The Prelude of Experience: Intentions of A Camino, 1010+ KM on Foot From the Heels of French Airspace to the Lip of Spanish Waters. Pt. 1. About Work After the Camino Frances, I looked at distance, work, and work ethic differently. I spent 6 to 8 hours a day walking 20-30km– And … Continue reading In The Prelude of Experience: Intentions of A Camino, 1010+ KM on Foot From the Heels of French Airspace to the Lip of Spanish Waters. Pt. 2.
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In The Prelude of Experience: Intentions of A Camino, 1010+ KM on Foot From the Heels of French Airspace to the Lip of Spanish Waters. Pt. 1.
I am a Visionary, and my lifestyle is my work. This is how my life unfolded after walking the my first Camino De Santiago. Camino Frances, 2018.
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Reflections Of A Camino: 900+ Km On Foot From Southern France To The Western Coast Of Spain. The Trials And Tribulations Of Experience.
A journey into myself and back: Reflecting on my own humanity by looking into my experience after undertaking 900+km of the Camino Trail on foot.
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Philosophical Spotlight: 5 Things we can learn from Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza was a 17th century rationalist who spun his philosophy monistically around the belief that mind, and matter — are ultimately one, and the same.
Stepping away from his Judaic roots, Spinoza radically redefined the traditional views of existence, and the role of God within the cosmos.
Here are 5 things that the ‘Prince’ of Philosophers left us with…
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Memoirs of the Mediterranean
Memoirs written about my travels and experiences by returning to Athens, and Ikaria, Greece.
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A Struggling Poem- Do you know what it is to be buried alive?
A Struggling Poem- What is it about being buried alive? What scares us most? What can’t we escape in ourselves?
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The Power Of Smell Compels You- 5 Essential Oils For Emotional Development
5 Essential Oils for personal empowerment and emotionally spiritual development
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Philosophical Spotlight: 5 Life Lessons We Can Learn From Existentialist Thinker Albert Camus
Albert Camus highly contributed to existential thought within the philosophical world. Here are 5 points to take away from his wisdom.
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The wanderlust way- Picking up on the cowards back.
Littermature motivational–
On Facing the fear of travelling your designed journey.
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Varying Perspectives–Words that Speak: Through God, or Gut.
Littermature On– Divine intervention: Genuinly so, or a by-product of our diets and traumas.
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Through The Fog — The Bridge To Nowhere
Littermature Creative Writing Original– “Through The Fog– The Bridge To Nowhere”
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Festering Words: “May I Suggest A Smoother Path?”
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, No chance your words will phase me!”
~ G. Kourtesiotis
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A Brief Moment In Delirium– High on Coffee and Sweet, Sweet Jazz!
Behold, Another human! :
Frantic, unorganized, and in delirious thought.
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Littermature Excerpt- Crunching Numbers, and Coming of Age.
Littermature: The Ugly Face of the Mind — Excerpt (Crunching Numbers):
‘Coming of age’– What can that possible mean?
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Wishless Thinking- Tired and Tried.
Littermature in poetic thought– I am incapable of wishing.
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Loco Al Turin – A Poem for Nietzsche
Littermature Original- A poem for Friedrich Nietzsche
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F*ck Mindfullness: Fake it till you make it! How mindfullness can sometimes deafeat the purpose of itself.
As soon as we intend to be mindful in our experiences, we limit our experience to whatever preconceptions we have of a mindful experience.
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Fortunes of Fate & Fated Fortunes
Littermature Creative Writing– The Illusion of Free Will.
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What Thunder And Lightning Feel Like.
Littermature Original Poetry-
The emotional waves of rainfall, thunder, and lightning. A solitary experience.
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The Smell Of Fire, A Burning Poem.
Littermature Original Poetry- On captivating opportunities, and broken dreams. In the smell of fire.
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Huffing and Puffing Towards a Solution-The Power Of Negative Thinking
“I don’t WANT to huff and puff”
But, I NEED to huff and puff!
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Of Broken Mirrors, Of Broken Dreams: The Unfolding Reflection. A Creative Piece On The Illusion of Aging, Passion, and Time.
“Bring me back to my youth”– you hope. A creative writing piece on the illusions of adulthood, pressure to fit into the mould, and slipping beyond time.
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The Creative Exploit As A Lazy Alternative: Instigating The Fight Between Normality And Irregularity
Don’t Just Work Hard, Work Smart Too!
And while you’re doing that, Test nature, Test the faith, Test yourself– THAT’S LIVING!
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The Bullshit-itty of Small Talk in the Grand Scheme of Things When Saying Less Better
Why saying less is better. Avoiding awkward small talk, forget about it and listen to your gut.
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“I’m Lost” – Chasing uncertainty, Breathing through insecurity, and the Road Less Travelled
Travelling the road less travelled brings with it a high degree of uncertainty, and without certainty, it’s a pretty good bet to call it lost. What roads do your choices take you?
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“Rich, Poor: Old & Young” – A perspective poem in finding out what it takes to live happily in life.
Modern Poetry: A poem for the rich,
a poem for the poor.
A poem for the middle crowd,
and words of no cure.
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Duking The Demon: Pinch Bars and Steel Wheels – Testing the Faith [Part 1.5]
Transformation and healing at work: How my job helped me feel better about my life
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Testing Faith: A Desperate Scramble Without Balls.
Testing the Faith- Without Balls, Part. 1.
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Social Roles: Individuality Behind The Smoke & Mirrors.
It’s a vicious psychosocial cycle, but the best we can do is to practice SEEING people outside of HOW we see people.
Life is funny.
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Let Yourself Feel: Judgement Of An Open Heart.
Let Yourself FEEL, To Let Yourself HEAL. ~G. Kourtesiotis, 2013.
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The Wild In You, Motivation, Passion, And Drive.
The Wild In you What motivates you to get up and get out into the world to do some good for yourself or for others? It is important to find your true passions in order to learn to flow with the wild inside of you. Blindly follow your excited nose, because the road knows to … Continue reading The Wild In You, Motivation, Passion, And Drive.
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“Wide Eyed”- Big Brother keeps a watchful eye out on everybody.
Big Brother has an eye out on you.
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Soul Searching, How Far Do You Have To Look To Find Yourself?
How far are you willing to go to find your solitude?
How can one accommodate any peace with the traditional vacation? Resort, party, people, booze, food, chlorine water– Ahhh this is the life, isn’t it?
For someone maybe…
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Littermature Online: Modern Poetry
Littermature is a personal creative work. A collection of visualized thoughts, captured during a very trying time in life. Filled with raw existential angst, Littermature dares to capture the raw human psyche as it is experienced behind the smoke and mirrors of society.
With love,
-~ G. Kourtesiotis, 2016
