by Leisa A. Hammett | May 16, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and attend them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows Who violently sweep your house Empty of its...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 12, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Nashville!
"Can you feel joy amid pain? I say: Yes. Definition of bittersweet." –May 5 at 9:45am tweet via HootSuite –LeisaHammett Phillip Moffitt, former entrepreneur turned Esquire magazine owner and editor-in-chief turned spiritual teacher spoke at...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 10, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
"And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you, too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to compassion and to community." –Jean Vanier I'd say...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 6, 2011 | Motherhood
Photo: Bill Bangham, Father of Click, 2004 The act of becoming a mother means that some invisible hand of life-emotions reaches down into the very pit of your heart and takes a wrench hold. You will never be the same. You have joined the universal community of...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 4, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood
"Where design and motherhood and intersect." That's the tagline for DesignMom, one of the internet's most intriguing, savvy blog-enterprises and blog owners–Gabrielle Blair. She's a designer and mother of six–the youngest just...
