by Leisa A. Hammett | May 17, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Nashville Flood, Nature, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
**Photography: Tamara Reynolds Photography, www.tamarareynoldsphotography.com We are the people of River Plantation who laid the contents of our homes curbside, the stench of mold rising in our condo-maze complex turned war zone. We are the working class folk of...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 6, 2010 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Nashville Flood, Nature, Spirituality
by Leisa A. Hammett, www.LeisaHammett.comOutside and overhead, we could hear the circling clop-clop of television news station helicopters and the occasional zoom of Vanderbilt Medical University LifeFlights. Inside we were trapped in a surreal universe, disconnected...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 30, 2010 | Art, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Nature, Technology/Blogging
Writer, author, blogger, editor, Kathy Rhodes , (front,) meeting life's turbulent waters head on! Photo: First Draft.Why do I write so much about Grief? I've experienced a hefty share of it. It's given me an opportunity to learn from it. Grief has...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 26, 2010 | Art, Nature
Willow Pond – varied layers of spirit-zapping winter. Winter: reviled by many, loved by me. Winter, an opportunity to go within. Winter, a struggle of the soul…Awaited redemption arrives in the light of the coming spring. Willow Pond – an early...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 21, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, H2H, Our Book, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Travel
A British human rights journalist and horse trainer, his American wife–a university professor of psychology–and their son with autism "do something crazy." They travel across the world and ride horseback across Mongolia seeking a shamanic...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 15, 2010 | Art, Nature
February Roses back-dropped by a March 2nd Snow. Image, post, copyright: Leisa A. HammettMarch. Day One.The microwave hummed behind me.I stretched facing the kitchen's double windows. On the table before them, eight remaining Valentine's roses, sentimental....
