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Update: Grace Goad Autism Art

Update: Grace Goad Autism Art

by LeisaHammett | Aug 6, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!

There’s four opportunities to see and purchase the art of Grace Walker Goad this summer and fall. 1) Tomorrow, Thursday, August 7, come see us at the outdoor market of Green Hills’ Whole Foods Market, 4-7 PM. We’re continuing our tradition started...

“Grace Walker Goad: Two Decades in Color”

by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 13, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Nature

One year. Ten years. Sixteen. Eighteen. Nineteen. I remember those significant birthdays of my daughter. But, as a friend suggested yesterday, today's number is pivotal. Not only is my daughter no longer a child, she is no longer an adolescent. She is fully an...

After Pomp and Circumstance: What’s Next?

by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 3, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!

A small, rainbow-colored glass magnet attaches her picture to the side of our fridge. The photo freeze frames her donning a graduation hat, perched slightly crooked with a large bobby pin securing a cowlick-y clump of hair near the backside of her head. The girl in...

Travelogue: First-Time Mother-Daughter Trip

by Leisa A. Hammett | May 11, 2014 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Travel

Blush. My daughter, Grace, turns 20 in one month. And Easter weekend was the first time the two of us ever took off on our own together. Not for a winding interstate trip through the mountains to our South Carolina family. Just us two on an adventure, the destination,...

#AAM Via StyleBluePrint Blog :)

by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 24, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging

This post was scheduled to publish on Monday but did not until today, Thursday, because my blog's PLATFORM, Typepad, was attacked. (Meaning anyone who uses Typepad to host their blog heard crickets for about five days. Nada. It nothing personal to me, but...

Wishing Well: Sometimes Graduation Never Arrives

by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 14, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!

Life is a series of graduations, and motherhood, even more so a myriad. Birth mothers graduate from a less complicated life to nine months of anticipation to caretaker of the minutiae ad nauseum of the newborn delight of their heart. Those wee ones graduate from the...
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GRACE GOAD | AUTISM ART:

Shimai Gallery of Contemporary Craft
8400 Highway 100, Nashville, Tenn.
(Little cottage in the far corner of the Loveless Cafe complex.)

FEATURED POSTS

  • Blossoming: All New Grace Goad Works, Shimai Gallery
  • Message of the Mammoth Moth: Grace in the Time of Corona
  • Year Two—Still Seeking the Resurrection: Grace in the Time of Corona
  • Lessons of the Lenten Roses: Grace in the Time of Corona
  • Self-Love on V-Day: Grace in the Time of Corona

FROM HEARTACHE TO HOPE

From Heartache to Hope: middle tennessee families living with autism, a book by Leisa A. Hammett & photographer Rebekah Pope. Click here for more info plus ordering details.

Grace Goad Autism Art

ABOUT LEISA HAMMETT

Hi! I’m a writer and a speaker, and I represent the art of my young adult daughter, Grace Goad, who has autism. We’ve been featured on The View, Al Jazeera America, and in numerous television, radio, magazine, newspaper, and online features. I’ve written one book about autism and I’m working on spiritual memoir about living with autism. Hope you’ll hang out here online with us.

 

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