by Leisa A. Hammett | May 10, 2010 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Grief & Loss, Nashville Flood, Spirituality
Every time I get clear and clear the way, I am amazed at what I accomplish. I am remarrying this summer (another manifestation,) and we finally found a home two weekends back. I was so blown away when I walked in and found so many details just as I'd envisioned:...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 6, 2010 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Nashville Flood, Nature, Spirituality
by Leisa A. Hammett, www.LeisaHammett.comOutside and overhead, we could hear the circling clop-clop of television news station helicopters and the occasional zoom of Vanderbilt Medical University LifeFlights. Inside we were trapped in a surreal universe, disconnected...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 21, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, H2H, Our Book, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Travel
A British human rights journalist and horse trainer, his American wife–a university professor of psychology–and their son with autism "do something crazy." They travel across the world and ride horseback across Mongolia seeking a shamanic...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 19, 2010 | All The Rest of Life, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
For nearly a year I've been reading a very visually appealing blog called Ordinary Courage by a very smart woman with a thought-provoking message. Happily, I stumbled upon a PBS interview on YouTube interviewing Dr. Brene Brown, Ph.D., talking about...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 15, 2010 | Art, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality
Disclaimer: as a member of the local media with press credentials to the Nashville Film Festival, I am sometimes approached by filmmakers seeking coverage. I felt that this poignant-seeming film fit well into my themes here of spirituality, aging, grief, loss, etc.,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 12, 2010 | Spirituality
Late night. A bowl of popcorn and a channel flipper in hand landed me on a .com preacher. Next! Wait! I flipped back. I grew up with this handsome man whose face I searched for the layers of 40-something years. He wore, I kid not, nearly hot pink very well-fitting...
