by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 30, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability
-In honor of National DisAbility Awareness Month (March)- "It always angered me that people with disabilities never got good lighting, they never got good photography and they never got good cameras," Kent says. "So I just went out and bought an old...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 28, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Motherhood, Spirituality
Grasping a few stolen moments, I busily typed away, entering into the computer the volunteer protocol for setting up communion in our small Lutheran church (ECLA). C. was new there and already active. She stopped and chatted and then, cocking her head to the side, she...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 26, 2012 | Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Nature, Spirituality
"Why?" Two friends and I have asked on multiple occasions during separate gatherings with each other: We know that our spirtual practices of yoga, meditation and journaling–throw in walking in nature, etc.–serve us greatly. They help keep...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 23, 2012 | Art, Nashville!
One never knows what their going to see at Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery. Something different. For sure. Always. "Answers to Things: John Wood and Paul Harrison," had me cackling with its' warped yet...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 21, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood
I was born a triangle. A triangle in a family of circles and squares. There are memories of this dynamic coursing through my familial childhood memories, in preschool, kindergarten, elementary and boldly in middle school. And, oh, gawd, most definitely in high school....
