by LeisaHammett | Sep 27, 2018 | Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Woman after woman. Friend after friend. In the last two weeks, I’ve read so many #MeToo and #WhyIDidntReport Facebook threads of women sharing that they were also sexually assaulted. Epidemic. Although I shared my #MeToo *sexual harassment* on Facebook a year...
by LeisaHammett | Aug 26, 2018 | Art, Nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
I never expect her. Yet, on time. She arrives at my doorstep. DING-donnngg! She presses the doorbell and flees. She does this every year. She rouses me with a hushed puff of temperate air, cruelly announcing with knowledge that I should have but still manage to...
by LeisaHammett | Aug 21, 2018 | All The Rest of Life, Spirituality
I don’t have to take LSD, as hippies did in the 60s, to go mind tripping. I took a mind trip this morning, unaided by external substances. I allowed myself to get upset at how I interpreted someone behaved toward me. It was within a group situation and I started...
by LeisaHammett | Aug 18, 2018 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
“Ok riddle me this,” a smart friend posted on Facebook. “How is it possible that disability is completely foreign to the public at large when 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. have a disability that impacts major life activities?” Her question time...
by LeisaHammett | Aug 10, 2018 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
“I don’t know how this story will end, but I do know in my heart of hearts that this Earth Journey is precious, heartbreaking, joyful, deep, rich, terrifying, traumatizing…and ultimately about how wide we can keep our Heart’s doors open while proclaiming...
by LeisaHammett | Jan 18, 2018 | All The Rest of Life, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging, Travel
Ten states in 10 days? Heck yeah, if you count that it took friend, Kate Ratliff, and I, three days, make that four, to cross Texas. Since I last posted, cough, in September, Grace and I’ve been back to Grayton Beach, Fla., and in late December, I traveled with...
