by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 30, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
Addendum 9.1.12 8 p.m.: STARBUCKS EXHIBIT POSTPONED: Well-uh, we arrived at Starbucks on Hillsboro Road in Green Hills on Saturday evening per our instructions for the hanging of GraceArt, only to see that they had double booked the space. The manager who, in May,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 28, 2012 | Art, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality
Wait! Please, wait…my eldest sister urged….I was an emerging college senior. It was all the rage of the bold, vogue and hipsters amongst my college to flee the rule of dorm mothers and share a local apartment on the periphery of our small East Tennessee...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 17, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Do you know how important your voice is to the world? Every person has a story. Really. June 1, I was priviledged to join forces with Lacey Lyons, Belmont University adjunct English professor and Courtney Taylor Evans, of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center to...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 12, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nature, Travel
Photo: ©LeisaHammett.com, Orcas Island, WA.; view from Mt. Constitution, 2010 Stealthily. Much. Too. Slow. It. Creeps. Seeping. Up from my toes. Dark. Somewhat somber. A blanket of stillness. It crushes my chest. Sits on my heart. Masks my voice. Wanted: this...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 6, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Travel
Funny….Time, when in the midst of it, seems an eternity. Long gone, it is a fleeting memory. Summers past. Precious days. Years-on at a camp inclusion. Then: aged out. Now, 18. We have little such possibility. At the start of our journey, two...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 4, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Art
May your holiday celebrations of our great land be full of amusement! And, God Bless America and ALL Nations of our world! Photo: Williamson County Fair, 2011, ©LeisaHammett.com, "Android-ography," with Pixlr-o-matic app.
