by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 1, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature
Three days, all I did, seemingly, was stand in the kitchen, chop, steep, simmer, stir and wash my hands. Grace came home from her weekend away with a cold. This one was a little more tenacious than the usual variety that we've been able, the last couple of years,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 12, 2013 | Divorce, Grief & Loss, Nature, Spirituality
There. There it was. A sign….A year-and-a-half ago, I walked down the sidewalk from my then rental condo. I had just months before moved out and moved on from Marriage 2.0. There. There on the sidewalk, lay a heart-shaped leaf. I took a picture of it, and shared...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 6, 2013 | Art, Nature
Sheepskinned seductress, you are. To only you do I write poetry. Most people batten down their hatches and shut tight their blinds. For you I rip open the shades and fully expose my raw heart. YOU are poetry. Your naked limbs, arching over me like a...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 31, 2012 | Art, Nashville!, Nature, Spirituality
Go ahead. Take your long, sultry, sweltering days of summer. Not me. Give me the blank canvas of a winter landscape. A gray sky challenging my heart's eyes to see her glory. Barren arms of trees, absent their dress, fallen to earth; germinating, awaiting new life....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 13, 2012 | Art, Nashville!, Nature, Spirituality
We did a double take at one another in the vitamin section of Wild Oats. It had been more than a decade since I'd seen Dawn Kirk. She sported long gray hair. She'd become a hippie and went to great lengths to let me know how much she'd changed. For years...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 6, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Nature, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
We formed a line that started in the restroom and snaked out the door. We were waiting to use the facilities at a special disAbility fundraising event. The floors were littered, the toliet paper chained to the cement block walls and missing in some stalls, which also...
