by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 8, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Nature, Spirituality, Travel
"Happy Resurrection from Fear to Love, from grief to joy, from ego to Field, from separation to Unity. You are Loved and kept in the Light." This email from my beloved spiritual teacher greeted me this Easter morning. I wanted to share...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 5, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!, Travel
Oh my! It's 2 p.m. here and not only did I not get this prepublished per usual, I'm just now writing today's second spring break post and that's because all that's been going down here in GraceArtLand in the last week. Saturday: Hung...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 1, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature
No foolin,' today's the first day of April and the weather here and for almost all of March has been more like summer than spring. And then, there was winter, which failed to deliver much of a chill, giving us instead sprinter. Nontheless, I'm...
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 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....
