The feedback I've received from others has been both positive and instructive.  Every day, I have tweaked, redesigned, added and deleted to make this site more accessible to visitors.  I think it's a better site now than it was when I launched a few days ago.  And it will be even better a few more days from now.

The feedback I've received from myself, however, has had to be monitored closely for tone, content, usefulness and truthfulness.  Nothing worse than being your own troll.  Every day, many times a day, I've halted a downward spiral internal conversation to remind myself that the whole point of doing this is because I actually BELIEVE in this mission - to provide an alternative voice to the relentless insistence that every human has ONE passion, and that it is our purpose to discover and live it.  Dabbler University encourages the rest of us who have MANY interests to embrace that reality and to find purpose in exploring them all.  And the other reason that I'm doing this is because - it's fun.  So be quiet, troll.

Earlier today, as I was staring at the screen thinking about what to do next, a post from one of my favorite photo bloggers - Brandon Stanton of Human's of New York - popped onto my Facebook feed.  The woman in the photo (above) is quoted as saying: "I wasn't lucky enough to have ever found what I wanted to do. Don't get me wrong-- I did nicely. But I never found my passion."  It was like she was talking to me.  She's definitely LOOKING right at me.  And that knowing smile beats that doubting troll anytime.  

First post on a fresh blog in a brand new website.  No pressure.  It's like buying that really beautiful journal with the leather-tooled cover, opening it to the first page, picking up that new chiseled-tip pen, and spending the next minutes, hours, days, months dismissing every thought as UnWorthy - which is why all the "real" writers suggest cheap spiral notebooks and a Bic pen.  Good news!  This blog is the equivalent of a throwaway notebook in that I have no aspirations to become a BLOGGER.  Instead, I will simply dabble in blogging here.  

In looking ahead, I imagine this page being my own space for fulfilling #6 in the Guideposts for Dabbler section of the iDOD, while modeling a willingness to immediately depart from that expectation as other ideas and experiences waft me in other directions.  I do hope, at the very least, however that this page serves as a nudge for my fellow Dabblers, and a forum in which all of us can begin to recognize a sense of community - AND that you all will be so curious as to what #6 is, that you will go back and buy that textlet so that you can get the most out of your time at Dabble University.