by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 28, 2013 | All The Rest of Life, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality
The day after Christmas I woke up angry. There was a part of Christmas that did not go as planned. (And I'm not talking about gifts here.) Aha! In dissecting it with my teacher, I got it. While my concerns were legitimate and understandable, the root of the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 4, 2013 | Grief & Loss, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
Our feasts ended, our families dispersed. The Thanksgiving holiday was over. Late November winds blew in a change of energy. More frenetic. I, and others, braced for the madness. December delivered her, each week ramping up the frenticism to a new level. I gave up...
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 29, 2012 | Spirituality
It's a feel good story. Facebook's newsfeeds streamed reposts of NBC News Anchor Ann Curry's suggestion that Americans do one act of kindness for every student and faculty member shot at the Newtown massacre. I appreciated the story behind it–that...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 18, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
Angst. Just heart-wrenching angst. That is how I would describe this past weekend. There were moments of joy that I deliberately infused into my days and evenings. It was especially important to me to separate from the media mania surrounding the Newtown shootings. I...
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...
