Re-Launching

It has been just over a year since I have blogged. As much as I have missed it I just could not bring myself to write anymore. The last blog I wrote in June 2015 was on resilience. Somehow, I must have known what was coming...

I have been in an unhealthy place over the past year, really for many years, without realizing it... focusing on pieces of my life rather than looking at the whole of it.

Which brings me to the subject of this week's blog - Re-Launching.

A few years ago I met a man at a conference who used to work for NASA, training astronauts.  As he told me his story, I began to put the pieces together. His astronauts were not the ones who died in the space shuttle Challenger explosion, but he knew the ones who did. How do you relaunch after that?

As I relaunch The Daniel Mosaic I am thinking about how to bring more of myself into what I write. It is so easy for me to go into another place when I write, leaving parts of me behind as I look to find exactly the right words, precise words, safe words... I have always tried to leave uncertainty and failure behind me as quickly as possible, like it never happened, leaving an impression that I was more in control of things than I actually was.  I don't want to go back to that. My thoughts, emotions, intuition, impressions, senses, mental pictures are part of who I am and they need to be reflected in how I portray myself and what I write.

For a period of time I am going to post as I have something to say, and I am not going to promote my posting on social media. If what I am writing connects with you, follow or send me a comment.

'The best mosaics have a lot of pieces!'

Daniel