by LeisaHammett | Oct 31, 2020 | COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Nature, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Uncategorized
I can feel it. In you. In me. It’s like a breath caught and suspended in our individual and collective throats. I originally wrote and posted the following on Facebook. It resonated with folks. And, I keep returning to the post’s message in my...
by LeisaHammett | Oct 25, 2020 | Art, COVID-19, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging, Uncategorized
This fall, I’m in a virtual Jungian dream group led by certified dream facilitator Laura Huff of Fire by Night Dreamwork.* It’s fascinating work and I’m learning a lot. Bi-weekly, our small group members rotate sharing our dreams. My second go at...
by LeisaHammett | Oct 11, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging, Uncategorized
Sometimes things don’t work out when and how we want them to because they aren’t supposed to do so. Sometimes the solution reveals itself is down the road in time. The week Tennessee and most of the nation’s shut down, we went from three personal...
by LeisaHammett | Sep 27, 2020 | Art, Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
Dear Devoted Readers, (all three of you)‚ I’ve thought of y’all. A lot. But. The seductive pull of quiet, going deeper. deeper. down. down. inward. inward. was stronger. My right brain, versus my chatty, left, writerly brain, has taken over the controls....
by LeisaHammett | Jul 5, 2020 | Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
At the dawn of this holiday weekend, I received another of a sporadic series of videos and memes from an elder neighbor. I don’t know this spunky woman well and I assume no ill of her intent with her shares. But they are always diametrically opposed to my own...
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...
