by Leisa A. Hammett | May 20, 2011 | Art, Nashville!, Spirituality, Travel
More than 270 Shaker art objects—furniture, drawings, household objects, textiles, baskets and kitchen implements–debut at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts Friday, May 20. "Gather Up the Fragments" focuses upon the collection of...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 12, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Nashville!
"Can you feel joy amid pain? I say: Yes. Definition of bittersweet." –May 5 at 9:45am tweet via HootSuite –LeisaHammett Phillip Moffitt, former entrepreneur turned Esquire magazine owner and editor-in-chief turned spiritual teacher spoke at...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 29, 2011 | Art, Nashville Flood, Nashville!, Nature
The memories are painfully tender: One year ago Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1, the heavens above Nashville flung open and remained gapingly stuck, dumping 19 inches of rain. A 1,000 year flood we had. Here are a just a couple of posts from #NashvilleFlood:...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 22, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
Big(er) cities should have everything, right? I'm always amazed when some tucked away pocket in my adopted homestate of Tennessee has some innovative service that our capitol city, Nashville, does not. One such case would be the work that Cookeville area...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 15, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
Don't think I've mentioned it here yet this year: April is national Autism Awareness Month. So, except for the first two Monday posts this month, which continued the theme of aging parents-post my father's recent death, the lines between Art,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 8, 2011 | Art, Nashville!
Must be my life-long checkered relationship with art and thus love of beautiful architecture that prompted my passion for Nashville's old Broadway main post office. It was the 80s. Fresh out of college, I'd hike it in heels from work to the grand lobby where...
