Tag: awareness
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...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...Church
Posted: October 4, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
I have a birthday tomorrow and birthdays always drive me to reflect on my life. My reflections this year are about all the different churches in which I’ve been a part. I grew up Methodist, directed a small church choir at a Disciples of Christ Church, and ended up joining a huge Presbyterian Church (Village Presbyterian) in Kansas City. (6000+ […]
Read more...“Seeking Imagination”
Posted: August 31, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
This past Sunday at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Kristy Farber preached a sermon that really affected me. Her title was Seeking Imagination and I remembered thinking to myself that morning, “What does Mark 8:27-38 have to do with imagination?”On top of that, the following quote by Anne Lamott was printed in the bulletin by the picture […]
Read more...Gabby Giffords
Posted: January 27, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
Gabby Giffords squelched all talk about whether she would run again for another term in Congress by resigning this week. I must say, I am not at all surprised. A part of me was fearful that she would run again for lack of awareness is very common for TBI survivors. I thought I could go […]
Read more...Fifteen Years
Posted: August 26, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: awareness, creative, Giffords and Kelly, Kushner, rainbow
On August 26, 1996, I sustained my traumatic brain injury in a car accident. Water and rainbows had always been healing to me but throughout these years on my journey, they’ve been a real comfort. When I was first injured, we lived in an apartment in Atlanta. I couldn’t drive yet but I would often […]
Read more...“Trial and Error”
Posted: August 19, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: awareness, Giffords and Kelly
It’s already starting. Arizona state senator Frank Antenori is pushing Rep. Gabrielle Gillords to say if she is planning to run for reelection. (see article in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/gabrielle-giffords-reelection-frank-antenori_n_931155.html) Of course she isn’t required to file until May 15 but politics can be ugly business. Huffinton Post wrote, “Speculation on Giffords‘ future has buzzed since […]
Read more...A Long Way Back
Posted: August 14, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: awareness, TBI history, word finding
In today’s Asheville Citizen Times, there was an article on the front page about Jordan Allen who sustained a TBI two years ago. http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20110814/NEWS/308140041/Asheville-High-student-continues-recover-two-years-after-accident . The picture above is of Jordan and his mother, Tracee Workman. Workman is quoted as saying “Jordan was supposed to go to a step-down facility after CarePartners….But Workman says Jordan […]
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