Trails

eric mccarty
2 min readApr 1, 2023

Trails:

I’ve spent a lot of time on trails, racing and training, adding my footsteps to the infinite numbers before mine, and all the while it’s been without a true destination. It’s an odd thing to consider in a race, especially one of longer distance, that it’s traveling on the trail itself that’s the victory, being present to wherever we are between the point of start and finish, and that right here, the step we’re taking now, is always exactly…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student