More of A Listener

eric mccarty
2 min readAug 26, 2022
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More of a listener:

usually it’s the first few words, and they always seem a gift to me, gently appearing and inspiring me to follow their lead towards whatever theme will come to mind. Writing is really the art of listening, requiring a high degree of patience and being able to simply wait in silence for words to make themselves known. I am really more of a listener than a writer, as the writing only happens after long moments…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student