Comments for Jay Sennett

Comment on Intentional Practice: Regret Analysis by Christina

Christina — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:26:47 +0000

Jay said “The self-flagellation becomes the action.” Man oh man, I need to listen to this!
I never realized this before but I am prone to this flaw. Thank you for stating this clearly.

Comment on Novel Writing: Completion by Jay Sennett

Jay Sennett — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:36:16 +0000

Thank you! I’m still amazed how it all came together.

Comment on Novel Writing: Completion by Christina

Christina — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:22:35 +0000

Whoo Hoo!!! What an amazing accomplishment!

Comment on Radical Acceptance: With the Power Out, A Pencil Is In by Jay

Jay — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:17:47 +0000

I sometimes panic at the thought that I might suffer some natural catastrophe – much like Ike, only in Michigan (thinks Snotorius B.I.G.)- that will require collaborative survival with my neighbors. “I’ll actually have to talk with them!!??!!”

Funny, that. I simultaneously crave and loathe human contact.

Thank you for commenting.

Comment on Radical Acceptance: With the Power Out, A Pencil Is In by Christina

Christina — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:49:03 +0000

Jay said “marvel at how much face-to-face contact happened once the flip had been switched.”

That is the crux isn’t it. We are just oh so connected with our social networks galore but real, true breathing each other’s air not so much. When Ike happened here in Texas my neighborhood’s power was out for 14 days. I got to know my neighbors, spoke to them, played with their kids, hung out doing nothing but just being together. It was nice. Unfortunately when the power came back we all returned to our little e-islands.

Comment on Radical Acceptance: My Fear of Hunger by Jay

Jay — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:27:34 +0000

Christina,
Thanks for commenting.
“Hunger represents so much more that just needing food to keep my body running. It is all mixed up with body image, enculturation, and some other crap that is too deep for me to see yet.”

This is true for me as well. I am finding out that understanding hunger for me is so fleeting as it is, as you point, so much more about other parts of my self-understanding. One of the facts I’m meditating on is that in learning to feel comfortable with hunger I am acknowledging that eating is still a privilege. So many people in the world starve and many more are food insecure, in the sense that they may not have enough money in the bank to feed themselves and their families at the end of the month. Through the effort to come to open to a deeper embrace of my hunger, I see yet another layer of my privilege.

Take care.

Comment on Radical Acceptance: My Fear of Hunger by Christina

Christina — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:25:27 +0000

Hunger is such an odd thing. I have been learning lately to sit with it, to be fully present in the experience of hunger and fully present when I am eating and fully present when I am satiated. It is difficult for me to be present when I am hungry. Hunger represents so much more that just needing food to keep my body running. It is all mixed up with body image, enculturation, and some other crap that is too deep for me to see yet. Thanks for posting this.

Comment on Finding Peace Within by Willem Dunham

Willem Dunham — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:33:58 +0000

hey jay

i’ve lost track of you over the last few years. your busy life, my insane (or perhaps inane) life…you know, it is what it is. touching base with you here.

been reading the posts you’ve made on your deicsion to lessen (absent yourself from?) social media. that resonates greatly with me. i’ve taken up ATCs (artist trading cards) and making postcards. i’ve actually got some handwritten correspondence going on with folks. i find that those things allow me creative outlet and also strengthens my patience. what does it take, if not patience, to wait on the mail for a response in these days of instant communication. good, good stuff.

if you’d be interested in sharing some handwritten correspondence, drop me an email. (yes, i do realize the irony of that statement) i’d be very happy to exchange missives with you. perhaps we can get caught up?

wil