by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 16, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Nashville!
Tomorrow night I will do something I do six times a year. I will stand before a room of parents, grandparents, teachers and other greater Nashville community members. I will follow an hour presentation by a speech therapist, a psychologist–by...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 11, 2011 | Art, Grief & Loss, Nashville!, Nature
"When we innocently pass through a day without acknowledging our good, we are denying ourselves a sense of pleasure and delight. We lose a consciousness of expectation that things will continue to get even better. Gratitude is it's own prayer."...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 4, 2011 | Art, Grief & Loss, Nashville!
Study, Angel Oak; drawing by Charles Brindley My recently deceased father instilled my love for trees. One-hundred-year oaks and cedars and younger varieties were generous on our family land. "I think I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree,"...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 2, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, H2H, Our Book, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
From a Facebook discussion on this "Journey with Grace" post: The Language of Loss: Putting Grief Into Words, featuring grief writing retreat leader/author Amy Lyles Wilson: "Grief is that which surpasses words…the deepest groans of our hearts....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 28, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Nashville!, Spirituality
October days in Nashville can be surprisingly toasty but forthcoming winter breezes whisk away the humidity. It was such a day nearly eight years ago. I stood in line at an author's booth at our city's annual beloved and acclaimed Southern Festival of Books. I...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 24, 2011 | All The Rest of Life, Nashville!, Nature
Did you know that today, Monday, October 24, is National Real Food Day? I believe that eating fake food is part of our country's cultural degradation. That and television. Seriously, I do. Junk in. Junk out….And yes, not only have I posted this in...
