Different Way

eric mccarty
3 min readAug 18, 2022
Different Way — Grief — Prose Poetry — Headless Now — Moca McCarty Photo

Different way:

after my mother died, and my marriage slid closer to divorce, I found myself drawn to the local trails and long hours of running, simply being in motion as a natural means to express a deep grief that wouldn’t stay still within me. I needed to run. Many friends and family members assumed that I was hiding from my grief, denying the present hurt by attempting to out run its presence, or to keep my mind and body occupied…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student