by LeisaHammett | Jun 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Pandemic salve, solace, and salvation have manifested in the form of forested park walks these last nearly four months. Hardly a day has passed without their denouement. Emotional fatigue, battles of the mind, of the heart, were almost always dissected in the cocoon...
by LeisaHammett | Jun 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Midlife and Beyond, Nature, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
These. Are candid words. They will be offensive to some. I speak my truth. Sometimes truth hurts. I was raised Southern Baptist. It wasn’t until working for the denomination, in my fifth communications position, that I saw true Christian love demonstrated and...
by LeisaHammett | May 5, 2020 | Art, COVID-19, Midlife and Beyond, Nashville!, Nature, Uncategorized
Feels a wee bit vulnerable to write this: I feel like I’m experiencing a creative renaissance…. I was nervous about Monday night’s storm. Sunday night’s….Holy. Nashville had what is being called a hurricane on land. Seventy mph winds. No joke....
by LeisaHammett | May 1, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
It was the second time it happened. The first was in 1997, during the throes of grief and uncertainty after my 27-month-old had just been diagnosed with autism. The second time was sometime around 2006 or 2007. Sometime between relationships. I was at a redlight. Both...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 12, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Nature, Spirituality
“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.” —Rev. Dr. Kenneth Wheaton, Ph.D. These are times of darkness. Of fear. With the coronavirus pandemic, we’re...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 5, 2020 | COVID-19, Grief & Loss, Nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands—a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace, and above all, the assurance that you are not alone in this world.”—Sidney Lovett One of...
