by LeisaHammett | Apr 16, 2017 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality, Travel, Uncategorized
“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.” Five years ago, I was one year into a five-year journey of healing from divorce. I’ve found it takes me, at...
by LeisaHammett | Nov 9, 2016 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
Half of us are hurting and half of us are celebrating. While the red-hat party is going on next door, let’s gather our tribe over here. Here’s the message, Loves. Keep on keeping on. Keep on loving. Keep on holding open doors (literal and metaphorical)....
by LeisaHammett | Aug 17, 2016 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality
As I locked the back door, I heard the sudden ssshushh in the tops of the deciduous forest behind my condominium. What was that? A storm signaling? Like that day and the days before it and the days before those, it was another hot one in August. I put my keys and...
by LeisaHammett | May 15, 2016 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Uncategorized
It’s Pomp and Circumstance time. Many of my peers are celebrating the graduation of their sons and daughters from high school and a forthcoming path to college. Or, they’re cheering them on as they walk across the stage of their soon-to-be college alma...
by LeisaHammett | Feb 15, 2016 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
At our old, round, love-worn pine table, backlit by the kitchen window, she sat crisscross, her purple manicured toes up to her mid-calves bare to the winter chill. For days during our snow, sleet, rain, stop-and-go late January through mid February, we’d been...
by LeisaHammett | Oct 29, 2015 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
Indie Lens Pop-Up in Partnership with The Arc Tennessee brings a FREE Nashville Screening of Mini and Dona with a panel discussion following on November 20. “Heart-wrenching. The film is as unflinching as it is beautiful, chronicling difficult decision-making that...
