by Leisa A. Hammett | May 11, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Travel
Grand tally: About 2,500 miles, nearly 40 hours driving and $700 worth of fossil fuels were logged, totaled and consumed by yours truly with a sidekick or two, sometimes including Grace, during April. How that went down: the last day of March, I hung GraceArt: Grace...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 4, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Nashville!
Some creative-thinking folks conjured up this event where I'll be speaking Sunday: In Middle Tennessee, we are very blessed to have a long-standing, highly successfully recreational and therapeutic horseback riding program for children and youth with disAbilities,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 2, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Weave in. Weave out. Delicate at times. Boisterous and rocking and raucous at others, this dance of mother-daughter. The same child-turned young woman who locked me in my bedroom last night in some sort of weird, unspoken developmentally delayed adolescent...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 27, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
Today is the 74th birthday of my friend, spiritual mentor and companion, Rev. Dr. David Kenneth Wheaton, Ph.D. But, no bother. He's not big on numbers because he's "not a number." Ken, rather, is 74-years-young. As we spend time together in public I...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 25, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, H2H, Our Book, Nashville!
The lights were off and the chirping cricket chorus was deafening. For a year, my dear publisher and collaborator-photographer and I had a serious disagreement with the charity benefiting from our book, From Heartache to Hope: Middle Tennessee Families Living...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 23, 2012 | Art, Nashville!, Nature, Spirituality, Travel
Thanks to my Atlanta friend, Joe Westbury, a lover of all things cultural, I learned about the initial film in the brilliant Qatsi series. In commemoration of Earth month, last week I shared on The Journey with Grace, the amazing film Koyaanisqatsi. Subtitled...
