by LeisaHammett | May 25, 2020 | COVID-19, Midlife and Beyond, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Mother always said: “If you point a finger at someone, remember, you have four pointing back at you!” So. As I write on the scorching hot topic of judging, I’m highly cognizant that I’m outnumbered in the pointy finger department. I’m...
by LeisaHammett | May 1, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
It was the second time it happened. The first was in 1997, during the throes of grief and uncertainty after my 27-month-old had just been diagnosed with autism. The second time was sometime around 2006 or 2007. Sometime between relationships. I was at a redlight. Both...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 25, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
I wasn’t raised in a family that laughed a lot. Except maybe at the expense of one another. Hello. ?♀️ (Code: Enneagram 8.) But as I’ve loosened and blossomed more and more into my essence through years, plus, with years of deliberate hard work on the...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 12, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Nature, Spirituality
“Happy Resurrection from Fear to Love, from grief to joy, from ego to Field, from separation to Unity. You are Loved and kept in the Light.” —Rev. Dr. Kenneth Wheaton, Ph.D. These are times of darkness. Of fear. With the coronavirus pandemic, we’re...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 7, 2020 | COVID-19, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality
Tuesday morning, 1:30 AM; 2:30; 3:30. I tossed into a dark night of the soul….Yet, I awakened with resolution….One of the many silver linings of this pandemic, amid the myriad of tragedies, is opportunities to confront my shadowside. I hear it’s...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 5, 2020 | COVID-19, Grief & Loss, Nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands—a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace, and above all, the assurance that you are not alone in this world.”—Sidney Lovett One of...
