by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 24, 2012 | Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
A knitted caftan replaced the cashmere shawl she'd planned to don. Beneath it she wore fleece and flannels all the day long once the mid-February threat of ice and snow cancelled her Sunday afternoon rendezvous with friends over steaming bowls of chili. She...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 17, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Do you know how important your voice is to the world? Every person has a story. Really. June 1, I was priviledged to join forces with Lacey Lyons, Belmont University adjunct English professor and Courtney Taylor Evans, of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center to...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 10, 2012 | Divorce, Grief & Loss, Spirituality
This morning I broke through. I broke through, at least, to another layer–a deeper layer. Of freedom. We talk in spiritual communities about the importance of forgiveness. In some conscious communities there is a belief that there is no need to forgive. That we...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 6, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Travel
Funny….Time, when in the midst of it, seems an eternity. Long gone, it is a fleeting memory. Summers past. Precious days. Years-on at a camp inclusion. Then: aged out. Now, 18. We have little such possibility. At the start of our journey, two...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 19, 2012 | Art, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality
She's a beautiful woman. She's amazing. She's the kind of mother-superwoman, whom, in our hearts, many of us would aspire to become. She's the president of the PTSA, she's a diplomat, she speaks before the board, serves on every committee,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 15, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
The Energizer Bunny ran out of batteries. Duh. And, I knew better. May came, the third art exhibit was hung, I went away for a private five day writer's retreat and I came back. Exhausted. The day after my return I went to my beloved gyn-nurse practitioner and...
