Speech
Posted: November 1, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: focus, overstimulation, stress
The picture on the left doesn’t have anything to do with my speech but rather is a picture of my coffee grinder. This morning I ground some coffee beans and brewed up some fresh coffee in my super-duper coffee maker. I don’t drink coffee every day, only for a treat. When I drank it every […]
Read more...General Assembly
Posted: October 25, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
Posted on the left is a picture that a friend from Circle of Mercy sent out. The Occupation has folks with different beliefs about a higher power but I thought it expressed my own beliefs well. I’m writing a lot about the Wall Street protests this month because they are on my mind. Here in […]
Read more...International Day of Action
Posted: October 17, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: attention, cognitive overload;, compensatory strategies, focus, Occupy Wall Street, resting brain, structure
Sunday was the day when all cities involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement came together and had some sort of action. Here in Asheville, there was a rally in Pritchard Park with music and speakers at 2 PM. The picture above is of that rally. Following the rally was the general assembly followed by […]
Read more...Occupy Wall Street
Posted: October 14, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
Several weeks ago, a group of protesters camped out at a park by Wall Street to protest how 1% of the population makes many of the financial rules for the other 99%. One day last week, 700 people were arrested on the Brooklyn bridge. I’ll write more about this movement later but it has grown […]
Read more...Fifty
Posted: October 7, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Welcome to Holland;
My fiftieth birthday was on October 5. It’s hard to believe I’m 50! I saw this tongue in cheek picture above about turning 50 and it made me smile. What does turning 50 mean to me? In my forties I kept thinking about how much farther other people had come than me. Now I’m thinking […]
Read more...Troy Davis
Posted: September 27, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
Last Wednesday night Troy Davis was put to death by the state of Georgia. Thousands of people all over the world tried to stop it to no avail. One of my facebook friends wrote, “I wonder what’s going to happen….all I know is, if Pope Benedict, Jimmy Carter and Bob Barr all agree on something, […]
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