My Greatest Small Surrender

eric mccarty
2 min readApr 26, 2024
My Greatest Small Surrender — Writing Life — Non-doer — Headless Now — Lyrical Prose

My greatest small surrender:

as for me, perhaps my greatest small surrender is in approaching the page each morning without a clear idea in mind to write of, my own emptiness of words matched to the screen, and simply having faith that inspiration will soon arrive with exactly what I need. My only plan is patience, writing is never guaranteed, and yet it always seems to happen. Waiting for just the right word or…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student