Comments on: Yi Yi Yi

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:04:40 +0000

I have been reading your blog for quite some time now – always finding it insightful and inspirational. Now I am finding it comforting in a strange way – it is good to know that you are finding your way through the missing piece in your marriage and a divorce. And as I read other postings, I can know that other people are making it through as well. I have been a little shell-shocked in the past few months too. After a traumatic day in January when my husband had a seizure while driving and managing to get the car out of the wrong lane and off the road, we found out that he had a brain tumor. He had surgery and fortunately, no other treatment is recommended right now. So I am very grateful – that we were spared in the car, and that he made it through surgery and is recovering. I am fearful for the future, and don’t know quite how to live with the fear of a reoccurrence, of additional treatment, or worse. At first I thought going through all of that was bringing us closer together, and maybe it did at first, but now the stresses of everything have only added to the problems that we had in our marriage, and I feel more and more alone. I admire your strength, and wonder if I can be as strong as I deal with these issues. I’m barely making it through each day, trying to put on a “normal”, happy front. How do people make it through these things? Sorry that on my first posting I am “unloading” – I’m usually the positive,
encouraging, helping one. I guess that after everything that has happened recently, I just needed to have a voice somewhere – and I have appreciated your voices and all the voices that have posted comments.

By: donna joy

donna joy — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:38:45 +0000

eye yie yie yie, i am the frito bandito.

ok, so i butchered the spelling but you get the idea~

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:05:17 +0000

I check you blog every now and then to see your progress. I’m making a significant change in my life (you can read it on my blog I won’t repeat it here) and am going to embark on what I call a sabbatical year, a time to (hopefully) relax, recover and rediscover – or just plain discover what next. I’m anxious and panicy and excited all at the same time. Scary often wins out though.

By: chris zydel

chris zydel — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:56:56 +0000

Dear Jennifer,

Yes, yes performance. I can definitely see you with your own TV show, in women’s living rooms all over the country , bringing play and creativity and laughter and total permission to be exactly who you are without fixing a thing! My goodness! What a wonderful breath of fresh air THAT would be! It’s just so deliciously subversive and so wonderfully counter to all the messages about not being good enough that we are bombarded with every day!

I am grateful, as always, for your honesty and your willingness to be vulnerable during this difficult and transformative time in your life. You are such an inspiration to me! Thank you for being so fully yourself.

Warmly,
Chris

By: Julie Jordan Scott

Julie Jordan Scott — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:14:15 +0000

Ahhhh, Jen. Performance – my work in theatre – has been part of my self care regime this year. It has been such a time of loss for me… and in the last week, when I directed the Vagina Monologues and performed in an incredible three woman show called “eleemosynary” I can actually say I felt 100% grounded and phenomenal for the first time since my brother died.

Wow. Art. Performance. Being IN the center of Self Care… Lots of big love to you dear one.