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Welcome to this jumble sale of writings, musings, observations and inspirations: I hope you find something to help you on your journey home. It's all storytelling, in the end. That's how we understand things; the stories of who we are, where we came from, where we're headed. The stories of other people, how they came to be who they are, which stories shaped them, why our stories sometimes run parallel, and sometimes clash.

When we're motivated enough, we can change our stories, write new outcomes for ourselves and our people, our planet. All it takes is imagination, where there are, genuinely, no limits.

Warmest regards

Peter Neary-Chaplin

Writer. Poet.

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This livelong day

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 05:50AM

I love you enough

to give you back this livelong day,

just dawned,

fat and soft and fresh like a peach,

unrobed and pregnant.

To wait on you for the marrow

that springs and warms and cleans my rushing blood.

To hand out freely the salt and sweet,

the rising yeast, my bread and meat

which were not ever mine but only lent

to test how bounty might be spent.

To withhold the bitter and the sour,

cook them slowly for an hour,

find their place,

discern their power.

Shall I learn today? Shall I teach?

Both are one,

and balance is only ever stumbled upon

as I dance lightly on my beautiful feet

to God only knows where.

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