Don’t Believe Everything
Posted: September 16, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
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Yesterday I took Sparky for his morning walk. One of the houses previously had a big tree on the property. I don’t know what it was but it may have been hundreds of years old. A couple of years ago, the home’s owners cut the seemingly healthy tree down so they could have a garden. […]
Read more...Waiting in the Darkness
Posted: September 12, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Anne LaMott, Depression, moon
I don’t want to accept life as it is which is why I’m often stressed and depressed. I’m angry because I can’t be a minister at a church. I’m angry because I haven’t been able to improve my preaching. I’m angry because I can no longer play my violin or my viola. I’m angry because […]
Read more...New Vision
Posted: September 5, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: awareness, Depression, grief, journey
In his sermon at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church on Aug. 24, 2014, Mark Ramsey spoke about the Emmaus journey and how two weary, grieving disciples had bet their lives on the wrong savior. “After three years of imagination-stretched living, they can’t imagine how their time will be filled other than some wish-dream cobbled together by […]
Read more...Summer Institute II
Posted: July 8, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
I’ve been listening to the tapes I made of the 2014 Summer Institute on Theology and Disability back in June. It is almost impossible for me to take notes and listen to a lecture or presentation at the same time due to my brain’s inability to divide its attention which is why I tape them. […]
Read more...Summer Institute On Theology and Disability
Posted: July 1, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: cognitive overload; mental fatigue, compensatory strategies, learning;dividing attention;cognitive overload;overstimulation, resting brain
I must admit, I was a bit nervous about going to the Summer Institute on Theology and Disability in Dallas June 16-20. Traveling is difficult for me due to all the stimulation and cognitive overload and I don’t do well in new environments. I need to be familiar with them because too much cognitive work, […]
Read more...Getting Organized (again)
Posted: May 30, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: iPad Mini, organization, overwhelmed
I’m getting involved in organizing a couple of things at church right now. Michael and I share an office and a desk at home which for the most part, works. I’m not good at sharing a computer and he really isn’t either – although he’s better at it than I am! It just doesn’t make […]
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