Mystery of Appearance

eric mccarty
2 min readFeb 19, 2022
Mystery of Appearance — Prose — Poetry — Headless Now — Moca McCarty Photo

Mystery of appearance:

because it’s here, appearing to be so, and for whatever reasons brought it to this moment — that’s our only answer as to why things are a certain way, that right now life appears as an event with infinite means of order, possibilities, and yet we so often find ourselves faced with a moment of disfavor. There is no satisfactory answer that explains the mystery of appearance. Things are exactly as they…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student