Tag: grief
Violin
Posted: December 16, 2023 by Tamara Puffer
I’ve been putting off writing this post by checking Facebook, drinking coffee, walking Chip and a whole lot of other things. I’m feeling several emotions at once and I don’t really want to think about them. After putting my violin up for sale at a shop in Raleigh, it finally sold. I feel relief, grief, […]
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Sparky
Posted: August 8, 2021 by Tamara Puffer
We had to put Sparky down the Friday before our trip to Kansas City for my grandmother’s 100th birthday celebration. More about that later but due to the trip, I wasn’t able to really begin grieving. This week I have really missed him. These past mornings when I was cutting my banana for my cereal, […]
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...On Putting Myself Down
Posted: May 12, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: grief
It’s second nature for me to always put myself down. I try not to for I know I have quite a few things to offer the world but I do it anyway. Someone once asked me if I put myself down now more after my brain injury than before. I wanted to answer “yes” because […]
Read more...Grief
Posted: June 10, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: grief, Welcome to Holland;
Twenty years ago I learned about Kubler-Ross’ stages of grief. At the time, they made sense to me. However, several years ago I couldn’t understand why I seemed to be back in the early stages of grief surrounding my TBI. Shoot, I’d already gone through all the stages so I thought I was free and […]
Read more...Welcome to Holland
Posted: February 9, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: grief, Welcome to Holland;
I was organizing my files on brain injury when I came across a poem I had clipped from the newspaper years ago. I share it at the risk of taking it out of context but Emily Perl Kingsley’s poem called Welcome to Holland resonated with me. “I am often asked to describe the experience of […]
Read more...Presbytery Meeting
Posted: January 30, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: grief, overstimulation
The presbytery meeting vote came out the way I had hoped with a vote of 143-99. I made a short statement which turned out to be a 1 1/2 minute sermon. We voted on this same issue two years ago and I spoke then. I was stressed and vowed I would not speak this year […]
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