This blog is a passion project for me. It’s had the ancillary benefits of introducing me to amazing people, bringing me business, and making me think harder and more intensely about a lot of things than I ever thought possible. But when the chips are down, it’s the desire to express and share that brings me back to my keyboard again and again.

There are dozens of posts here that you’ll never see, mostly because they’re lost in the “Drafts” folder waiting for me to salvage them from their half-baked almost-there state. Some will be resurrected someday. Some will do nothing but gather dust.

But it’s important to me today to say something about you, the people that take time every day or every few to come by, and lend me your time and insights for a little while.

I’ve been writing for years and will likely be writing long after I have anyone to write to or for. But the truest and most compelling value to me in sharing what I think, learn, and seek to understand is when YOU are a part of this. I read every comment, I read every email I get, every DM and every reply on Twitter. I can’t always respond to them all, but each and every one matters to me. Because it reminds me that you’re out there, not just listening, but sharing among yourselves and with me and with each other.

That’s what we’re doing all this craziness for in the first place.

So I’m turning the stage over to you. I want you to leave comments, but not for me this time. For everyone else that stops by here and reads.

Tell me what makes you who you are. What you’re passionate about. Why you’re on this rock, working your butt off every day. Link to your blog, your stories, your photos. Especially you lurkers that never say a thing…I know you’re out there. Share with us.

I want to know your passion projects, and I’d be honored if you’d take a moment here in my sandbox to do it. Are you game? I’m listening.