Having posted daily almost a third of a year (six times a week with only two misses), I'm amazed that I'm still getting it done, and that it's been so easy. Here are my 10 favorite results of daily blogging: 

1. The daily habit: easier to maintain than weekly, monthly, or sporadic writing.
2. Permission to be ordinary. Not every post has to be inspired and profound. The less I worry about that, the more I get inspired.
3. More personal topics, sharing more of my…

I got inspired by musician astronomer William Herschel. We moderns can track an object across the sky, but sometimes the old ways offer a new perspective: one slice of sky at a time. 

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"Definition of reciprocity: 'a willingness or readiness to receive impressions or ideas.'"

– Amanda Owen, The Power of Receiving

Enjoyed Amanda's book signing tonight! The rest of my post is here.

"Some generous advice that I received when my book was being published is to enjoy your poems and don't hold on to them. It's all right for the first book to be an artifact of you were when you wrote it." -- Leslie C. Chang, Poets & Writers Annual Debut Poets Roundup, Jan/Feb 2011, p. 57

Thank you, Leslie! You've made my year. My first poetry collection took six years to write and was complete almost eleven years ago. (I've been waiting for some people to die--for their…