Aimee Buchanan
Posted: February 8, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Kushner
Like the Psalmists before us who screamed, “Why have you forsaken me? Can’t You hear my cries? How long are you going to hide from me?” we are crying out as well. “How can you take a person who has so much yet to offer the world? She wasn’t done yet! What were You thinking?” […]
Read more...Death
Posted: February 6, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Anne LaMott
I went to two Memorial Services last week. One was for Tom Swift who died from complications of ALS. You can read a commentary I wrote about him here: http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013302030018 I also attended a service for Dean Bush who lived homeless, was hit by two cars and was caught under a third and dragged several […]
Read more...Busy, Busy, Busy
Posted: January 31, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
My experiment to try to be more involved with things is certainly a bit of challenge for me now. When I was in Atlanta, I often became overloaded cognitively which meant too much information was coming at me and the only way I could handle it was to shut out the world for a few […]
Read more...“On Our Way”
Posted: January 23, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: awareness, disability, Dr. Martin Luther King, journey, memory, mental fatigue, resting brain, survivor
Mark Ramsey and Kristy Farber, the two pastors at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church here in Asheville, NC are doing a sermon series on communion, baptisim, funerals and marriages. Last Sunday the day before Dr. Martin Luther King Day, Mark preached about funerals. I couldn’t help thinking, “Now how in the world is he going to […]
Read more...A Way in the Wilderness
Posted: January 18, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: creative, Depression, Isaiah 43:19-21, journey
My favorite Scripture is in my head today. “Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert , to give drink to my […]
Read more...A New Year
Posted: January 17, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Choir, cognitive overload;, cognitive overload; overstimulation, creative, disability, over stimulation
I finally made the switch to WordPress. It is much easier to comment now so I do hope folks will take advantage of this. One doesn’t need to have a brain injury to comment but I really see this blog as a place where brain injury survivors can share their struggles as well as their […]
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