Monday Night Poetry 1/24/22

TONIGHT…
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Spoken Views Collective (@spoken_views_reno ) is honored to continue our WEEKLY OPEN MIC Monday Night Poetry (@mondaynightpoetrynv )at our collaborative Speak Easy Shim’s Surplus Supplies.
WEEKLY OPEN MIC
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Ongoing event details
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Venue: Shim’s Surplus Supplies Co.
125 W 3rd Street, Reno, NV
@shimssurplus

Be sure to use the BACK ENTRANCE behind 125 W 3rd Street in Reno.

Host: Jesse James Ziegler
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5:00pm – Venue opens for pregaming
5:30pm – Sign ups at the door/foot of stage
6:00pm – 8:00pm Open Mic w/ brief intermission
https://fb.me/e/27ZMlDsyk
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On the Horizon

NEW POETRY VIDEO:
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~ On The Horizon ~
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Title of Poem/Video is in reference to an excerpt from my reading, in homage to one of the greatest to ever touch stage, hearts, and the edge of transcendental art…Javon Johnson
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“Slam and spoken word poets who search for something beyond are, on some level, always trying to move on to what is beyond, to what is on the horizon.”
— Javon Johnson ‘Killing Poetry’
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ON THE HORIZON (2min.37sec.)
Poem and Photography by JJZ
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Collective Breath – Episode 81 – 1/25/22 – Writing Prompt

COLLECTIVE BREATH
SEASON 2 EPISODE 29
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Week of Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Starting at 8pm PDT
Episode : 81 (of 104 overall)
Writing Prompt: Write about the number NINE (9)

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COLLECTIVE BREATH is a weekly wellness writing workshop. This ongoing event meets Tuesdays starting at 8pm. Each session or episode will consist of two portions.
Step 1:
8:00pm – Tune in to Bruka Theatre of the Sierra’s Facebook Page to see the Poet in Residence, Jesse James Ziegler perform original pieces of poetry and speak about the theme/prompt of the week. (Personal Podcast Portion)
Step 2:
8:15pm – Using the link provided in the Facebook Event “Collective Breath”, join on Zoom for the meeting to discuss and share creative output related to the Topic/Prompt. (Group Workshop Portion)
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https://us04web.zoom.us/j/8127754640?pwd=RE41WS94RkVidUxERmxteXZTY3ZPdz09
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‘COLLECTIVE BREATH’
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Doorway

~ Doorway ~

I have been open enough
to pray for the eyes of God
so that I may see what I’m missing
and fully understand why
it will never be my place to judge
whether moments of experience
take my breath away
or cut it short altogether

I have been closed enough
to pray for death
so that I may end what I am feeling
to cease what I’m seeing
and fully understand why
I will never be completely open
without shattering
an already broken vessel
attempting to hold
the summation of existence
in a single breath

And so I remain
A door half open
held ajar by a singular glass
seen from afar as half empty
resting on the floor
casting its gaze over the threshold
longing to have its intention
travel across time
and breathe easy
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Collective Breath – Episode 52 – 7/4/21 – Transcript

COLLECTIVE BREATH – Episode: 52

Week of Sunday, July 4th, 2021

Number of people attending Facebook (personal portion):

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Introduction:

Retiring Grid Iron

Willis, Webster, and Lewis

Pushing on till zone’s end

Could be the frequency

running through us

and NASCAR’s Means to an end

Fifty two floors in a wreck

Fifty two weeks in a year

Fifty two cards in a deck

Fifty two ways to see clear

Happy 4th of July to everyone at home and on the road!

A transcript of this segment and each subsequent session will be posted (for anyone interested) at http://www.sidewayseight.co which is my main outlet for personal poetry and photography: Sideways Eight Projects.

“My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn’t ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn’t know if I would be able to keep my house.”

— Tom Hanks

Hello fantastic people! My name is Jesse James Ziegler. I am the current Poet in Residence for the Bruka Theatre of the Sierra in Reno, Nevada. I’m a member of the Sierra Literary Cooperative and the spoken word/poetry contributor to Reno Arts News. I am an active poet, special event MC, principle photographer, special event series host, and now weekly wellness writing workshop host in collaboration with Spoken Views Collective of which I am also a Board Member.

This Weeks Writing Prompt:

This week’s Prompt : ‘A year in the life’

I want for this podcast style personal portion to contain information about famous writers and their quotes as well as, futuristically speaking, local guests to this program who help everyone involved gain a diversity of perspective and positively impact our individual process.

Quote(s) of the Week:(3)

I’m hoping this sharing and vulnerability I’m demonstrating will encourage others who love creative writing as well to open up, by sharing from their innermost, related to the topic provided. I’m hoping we all gain perspective, compassion, hope, and discipline through such organized sharing.

“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”

— Kevin Hart

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“My teacher told me I’d never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.”

— Curtis Mayfield

Piece or Pieces of the Week: (2)

A Sparrow

Lude the Dude

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For further personal reading

4th of July Poems

Independence Day Poems

52 Symbolism

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: respond to the phrase ‘A fresh start’

Shout Outs

The Holland Project

Spoken Views Collective

Bruka Theatre

Good Luck Macbeth Theatre

Reno Little Theatre

Sierra Arts

POTENTIALIST Workshop

Savage Mystic Gallery

KWNK Radio

UNR

Black Rock Press

Black Wall Street

Up in the Mix Podcast

Animarte’

Sierra Literary Cooperative

Reno Arts News

Closing Sentiments and an Invitation

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.”

— Neil Gaiman

That’s it for my personal portion. If this is where you get off this train of thought, because you checked in to listen, thank you for tuning in and absorbing. I appreciate your time and consideration. If you are here for the Weekly Wellness Writing Workshop group portion via Zoom Meeting, please transition to that application now using the link provided in the details/description section of the Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page for ‘Collective Breath’. The link to watch previous episodes is in the bio section of the Collective Breath Instagram page @biggestlittlecollectivebreath

‘Keep’ (my frictionless benediction)

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep giving. Keep doing. Keep daring to believe in a better way of living. Keep loving and creating. Keep each other safe and sound. Keep it real, and keep the faith. I love you. Goodbye for now.

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#collectivebreath #collectivebreathreno #biggestlittlecollectivebreath #spokenword #spokenwordartist #sidewayseightprojects #brukapoetry #sidewayseightpoetry #spokenviewscollective #brukatheatre #brukatheatre28 #believe #community #reno #renonv #weekly #wellness #writing #workshop #creativewriting #writingprompts #writer #writers #poet #poetry #quotes #artists #guests #event #hope

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Collective Breath – Episode 51 – 6/27/21 – Transcript

COLLECTIVE BREATH – Episode: 51

Week of Sunday, June 27th, 2021

Number of people attending Facebook (personal portion):

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Introduction:

“I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.”

— Melissa Cox

A transcript of this segment and each subsequent session will be posted (for anyone interested) at http://www.sidewayseight.co which is my main outlet for personal poetry and photography: Sideways Eight Projects.

I’ve removed my tin foil hat for the broadcast as the glare was too distracting for the lighting. I am, however, wearing my roast beef t-shirt as featured in season 3 of Stranger Things, adorned by the character Dustin.

Hello fantastic people! My name is Jesse James Ziegler. I am the current Poet in Residence for the Bruka Theatre of the Sierra in Reno, Nevada. I’m a member of the Sierra Literary Cooperative and the spoken word/poetry contributor to Reno Arts News. I am an active poet, special event MC, principle photographer, special event series host, and now weekly wellness writing workshop host in collaboration with Spoken Views Collective of which I am also a Board Member.

This Weeks Writing Prompt:

This week’s Prompt : Write about Alien Life Forms

I want for this podcast style personal portion to contain information about famous writers and their quotes as well as, futuristically speaking, local guests to this program who help everyone involved gain a diversity of perspective and positively impact our individual process.

Quote(s) of the Week:(7)

“What most people don’t understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That’s why they’re always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there’s possibly some connection between aliens and golf.”

— Alice Cooper

“There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.”

— Buzz Aldrin

“I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.”

— Stephen Hawking

“We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.”

— William Shatner

“Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.”

— Noam Chomsky

“I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. ‘Alien’, ‘Blade Runner’ just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.”

— Christopher Nolan

I’m hoping this sharing and vulnerability I’m demonstrating will encourage others who love creative writing as well to open up, by sharing from their innermost, related to the topic provided. I’m hoping we all gain perspective, compassion, hope, and discipline through such organized sharing.

Piece or Pieces of the Week: (4)

Untitled

Candlelight Campsite

Anti Social Media

V

For further personal reading

Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

30 Best Alien Quotes

SETI INSTITUTE

E.T. Movie Quotes

ALF Quotes

Intelligent Alien Civilizations

Search For Extra Terrestrials

NASA Alien Life

Area 51

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: respond to the phrase ‘A year in the life’

Shout Outs

To Spoken Views Collective and Iain Watson for letting me host our next open mic at the Holland Project on Wednesday, June 30th. Email svc-booking@gmail.com for details and a time slot

To Reno Arts and Culture Commission for allowing me to further audition and interview as a follow up for the beloved role of City of Reno Poet Laureate

Closing Sentiments and an Invitation

That’s it for my personal portion. If this is where you get off this train of thought, because you checked in to listen, thank you for tuning in and absorbing. I appreciate your time and consideration. If you are here for the Weekly Wellness Writing Workshop group portion via Zoom Meeting, please transition to that application now using the link provided in the details/description section of the Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page for ‘Collective Breath’. The link to watch previous episodes is in the bio section of the Collective Breath Instagram page @biggestlittlecollectivebreath

‘Keep’ (my frictionless benediction)

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep giving. Keep doing. Keep daring to believe in a better way of living. Keep loving and creating. Keep each other safe and sound. Keep it real, and keep the faith. I love you. Goodbye for now.

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#collectivebreath #collectivebreathreno #biggestlittlecollectivebreath #spokenword #spokenwordartist #sidewayseightprojects #brukapoetry #sidewayseightpoetry #spokenviewscollective #brukatheatre #brukatheatre28 #believe #community #reno #renonv #weekly #wellness #writing #workshop #creativewriting #writingprompts #writer #writers #poet #poetry #quotes #artists #guests #event #hope

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Collective Breath – Episode 50 – 6/20/21 – Transcript

COLLECTIVE BREATH – Episode: 50

Week of Sunday, June 20th, 2021

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Introduction:

“If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.” — Fred Hampton

A transcript of this segment and each subsequent session will be posted (for anyone interested) at http://www.sidewayseight.co which is my main outlet for personal poetry and photography: Sideways Eight Projects.

Yesterday was June 19th, 2021: Juneteenth

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Hello fantastic people! My name is Jesse James Ziegler. I am the current Poet in Residence for the Bruka Theatre of the Sierra in Reno, Nevada. I’m a member of the Sierra Literary Cooperative and the spoken word/poetry contributor to Reno Arts News. I am an active poet, special event MC, principle photographer, special event series host, and now weekly wellness writing workshop host in collaboration with Spoken Views Collective of which I am also a Board Member.

This Weeks Writing Prompt:

This week’s Prompt : Write about Juneteenth

I want for this podcast style personal portion to contain information about famous writers and their quotes as well as, futuristically speaking, local guests to this program who help everyone involved gain a diversity of perspective and positively impact our individual process.

Quote(s) of the Week:(6)

“Words of Emancipation didn’t arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.”

— Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth

“Emancipation wasn’t a gift bestowed on the slaves; it was something they took for themselves, the culmination of their long struggle for freedom, which began as soon as chattel slavery was established in the 17th century, and gained even greater steam with the Revolution and the birth of a country committed, at least rhetorically, to freedom and equality. In fighting that struggle, black Americans would open up new vistas of democratic possibility for the entire country.”

Jamelle Bouie

“Studying the blueprints of liberation, one can map out the ways we as The Global African Diaspora have continued to resist and exist under regimes of antiBlack terror. Since the development of racial capitalism, the use of African peoples as capital, our ancestors have always fought for freedom. Our history doesn’t begin with slavery, but our future depends on us ending the mechanisms of it. Juneteenth is an extension of that abolitionist spirit where we march forth in reflection of the struggle.” — Brandon Gonzalez

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

— Toni Morrison

“You must never, ever give out. We must keep the faith because we are one people. We are brothers and sisters. We all live in the same house: The American house.”

— John Lewis

“What I love about #Juneteenth is that even in that extended wait, we still find something to celebrate. Even though the story has never been tidy, and Black folks have had to march and fight for every inch of our freedom, our story is nonetheless one of progress.”

Michelle Obama

I’m hoping this sharing and vulnerability I’m demonstrating will encourage others who love creative writing as well to open up, by sharing from their innermost, related to the topic provided. I’m hoping we all gain perspective, compassion, hope, and discipline through such organized sharing.

Piece or Pieces of the Week: (1)

Jubilee

For further personal reading/viewing/listening

Juneteenth History

Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth

Juneteenth is now a National holiday

Juneteenth

Kevin Garnett Hoop It Up Tournament

Juneteenth : Celebration of Resilience

Celebrating Juneteenth

Gregory Pardio – A letter to Juneteenth

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: Write on the topic of Alien Life Forms (Episode 51)

as an homage to area 51

Note: Starting with Episode 53 (after completing the first year of weekly wellness writing workshops on Sundays at 11am) Collective Breath will be transitioning to Tuesday evenings at 8pm

Shout Outs

Northern Nevada Black Cultural Awareness Society (NNBCAS) for hosting the 32nd annual Juneteenth celebration yesterday at Dick Taylor Park here in Reno, Nevada.

Donald Griffin of Black Wall Street Reno

bringing increased awareness and opportunities to the Biggest Little City

Closing Sentiments and an Invitation

That’s it for my personal portion. If this is where you get off this train of thought, because you checked in to listen, thank you for tuning in and absorbing. I appreciate your time and consideration. If you are here for the Weekly Wellness Writing Workshop group portion via Zoom Meeting, please transition to that application now using the link provided in the details/description section of the Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page for ‘Collective Breath’. The link to watch previous episodes is in the bio section of the Collective Breath Instagram page @biggestlittlecollectivebreath

‘Keep’ (my frictionless benediction)

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep giving. Keep doing. Keep daring to believe in a better way of living. Keep loving and creating. Keep each other safe and sound. Keep it real, and keep the faith. I love you. Goodbye for now.

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#collectivebreath #collectivebreathreno #biggestlittlecollectivebreath #spokenword #spokenwordartist #sidewayseightprojects #brukapoetry #sidewayseightpoetry #spokenviewscollective #brukatheatre #brukatheatre28 #believe #community #reno #renonv #weekly #wellness #writing #workshop #creativewriting #writingprompts #writer #writers #poet #poetry #quotes #artists #guests #event #hope

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Collective Breath – Episode 49 – 6/13/21 – Transcript

COLLECTIVE BREATH – Episode: 49

Week of Sunday, June 13th, 2021

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Introduction:

Heart and Soul is a tattoo parlor in Yuba City California, a song by Huey Lewis, a 1993 film, and a coffee shop in Modesto.

A transcript of this segment and each subsequent session will be posted (for anyone interested) at http://www.sidewayseight.co which is my main outlet for personal poetry and photography: Sideways Eight Projects.

Heart and Soul is the piano music from the giant keyboard scene inside FAO Schwartz toy store in the movie BIG, and what we’re discussing today.

Hello fantastic people! My name is Jesse James Ziegler. I am the current Poet in Residence for the Bruka Theatre of the Sierra in Reno, Nevada. I’m a member of the Sierra Literary Cooperative and the spoken word/poetry contributor to Reno Arts News. I am an active poet, special event MC, principle photographer, special event series host, and now weekly wellness writing workshop host in collaboration with Spoken Views Collective of which I am also a Board Member.

This Weeks Writing Prompt:

This week’s Prompt : Write in response to the phrase ‘Heart and Soul’

I want for this podcast style personal portion to contain information about famous writers and their quotes as well as, futuristically speaking, local guests to this program who help everyone involved gain a diversity of perspective and positively impact our individual process.

Quote(s) of the Week:(3)

“Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love – your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.”

— J.E.B. Spredemann, A Secret of the Heart

“Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything.”

— Jeffrey R. Anderson, The Nature of Things – Navigating Everyday Life with Grace

“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.”

— Mark Twain

I’m hoping this sharing and vulnerability I’m demonstrating will encourage others who love creative writing as well to open up, by sharing from their innermost, related to the topic provided. I’m hoping we all gain perspective, compassion, hope, and discipline through such organized sharing.

Piece or Pieces of the Week: (2)

Heart and Soul (Pulse – 5 year anniversary)

The Answer

For further personal reading

Heart and Soul Music

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: Write about Juneteenth

Shout Outs

To Bruka Theatre and Spoken Views Collective for continuing to give me a platform and access to events which help enrich my heart and soul

Closing Sentiments and an Invitation

That’s it for my personal portion. If this is where you get off this train of thought, because you checked in to listen, thank you for tuning in and absorbing. I appreciate your time and consideration. If you are here for the Weekly Wellness Writing Workshop group portion via Zoom Meeting, please transition to that application now using the link provided in the details/description section of the Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page for ‘Collective Breath’. The link to watch previous episodes is in the bio section of the Collective Breath Instagram page @biggestlittlecollectivebreath

‘Keep’ (my frictionless benediction)

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep giving. Keep doing. Keep daring to believe in a better way of living. Keep loving and creating. Keep each other safe and sound. Keep it real, and keep the faith. I love you. Goodbye for now.

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#collectivebreath #collectivebreathreno #biggestlittlecollectivebreath #spokenword #spokenwordartist #sidewayseightprojects #brukapoetry #sidewayseightpoetry #spokenviewscollective #brukatheatre #brukatheatre28 #believe #community #reno #renonv #weekly #wellness #writing #workshop #creativewriting #writingprompts #writer #writers #poet #poetry #quotes #artists #guests #event #hope

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Collective Breath – Episode 48 – 6/6/21 – Transcript

COLLECTIVE BREATH – Episode: 48

Week of Sunday, June 6th, 2021

Number of people attending Facebook (personal portion):

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Introduction:

“Life itself is the proper binge.”

Julia Child

Welcome to our names of episodes episode.

A transcript of this segment and each subsequent session will be posted (for anyone interested) at http://www.sidewayseight.co which is my main outlet for personal poetry and photography: Sideways Eight Projects.

“You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they’re not innocent. They take a lot of room in your brain, and you don’t have any space left for your own thoughts. They give you a scripted reality. It’s an ideological tool.”

Raoul Peck

Hello fantastic people! My name is Jesse James Ziegler. I am the current Poet in Residence for the Bruka Theatre of the Sierra in Reno, Nevada. I’m a member of the Sierra Literary Cooperative and the spoken word/poetry contributor to Reno Arts News. I am an active poet, special event MC, principle photographer, special event series host, and now weekly wellness writing workshop host in collaboration with Spoken Views Collective of which I am also a Board Member.

“My favorite binge watch is seeing your heartbeat through your eyes”

— Mohit Arya

This Weeks Writing Prompt:

This week’s Prompt : If your life were broken into seasons of a series others could binge watch, what would the names of some of the episodes be?

I want for this podcast style personal portion to contain information about famous writers and their quotes as well as, futuristically speaking, local guests to this program who help everyone involved gain a diversity of perspective and positively impact our individual process.

Quote(s) of the Week:(3)

“Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.”

Kazuo Ishiguro

“Tweeting is a great way to practice writing jokes, but there is so much more to comedy writing than just jokes. Jokes are a necessity, but you also have to learn how to write characters, to break a story, to keep coherence between episodes. I’ve learned more by being a TV writer than I ever could’ve on my own.”

Megan Amram

“Even if an episode is self-contained, the preceding episodes always affect how the audience takes it in.”

Hiro Murai

I’m hoping this sharing and vulnerability I’m demonstrating will encourage others who love creative writing as well to open up, by sharing from their innermost, related to the topic provided. I’m hoping we all gain perspective, compassion, hope, and discipline through such organized sharing.

Piece or Pieces of the Week: (1)

Animal Crackers

For further personal reading

Biggest Little Theatre Festival for Youth

Artist Interview

Bruka Poetry Gathering

(Poetry Contribution to BLTFY)

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: Write about the phrase ‘Heart and Soul’

Shout Outs

The Reno Aces for getting a home win against the Sacramento River Cats Friday night. Those Friday night fireworks were all the more satisfying.

Closing Sentiments and an Invitation

“Truthfully, I don’t like the binge-watching model. I think that if you give everybody everything all at once, there’s very much a law of diminishing returns as far as their enjoyment of them.”

— Timothy Simons

Cheers to those of our circle who take the time to soak in each episode individually. Appreciating every season of life. Every new character. Every interesting plot line. Kudos to those in life who seize the narrative so that all may be richly blessed by the unfolding of the story. Your series benefits others and touches other’s lives.

That’s it for my personal portion. If this is where you get off this train of thought, because you checked in to listen, thank you for tuning in and absorbing. I appreciate your time and consideration. If you are here for the Weekly Wellness Writing Workshop group portion via Zoom Meeting, please transition to that application now using the link provided in the details/description section of the Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page for ‘Collective Breath’. The link to watch previous episodes is in the bio section of the Collective Breath Instagram page @biggestlittlecollectivebreath

‘Keep’ (my frictionless benediction)

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep giving. Keep doing. Keep daring to believe in a better way of living. Keep loving and creating. Keep each other safe and sound. Keep it real, and keep the faith. I love you. Goodbye for now.

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#collectivebreath #collectivebreathreno #biggestlittlecollectivebreath #spokenword #spokenwordartist #sidewayseightprojects #brukapoetry #sidewayseightpoetry #spokenviewscollective #brukatheatre #brukatheatre28 #believe #community #reno #renonv #weekly #wellness #writing #workshop #creativewriting #writingprompts #writer #writers #poet #poetry #quotes #artists #guests #event #hope

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Collective Breath – Episode 47 – 5/30/21 – Transcript

COLLECTIVE BREATH – Episode: 47

Week of Sunday, May 30th, 2021

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Introduction:

“Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about getting angry. There is no need to give up when we are feeling depressed. Nor should we be dismayed at the grief which often accompanies the outgrowing of anything which needs outgrowing. We can be glad that our soul is speaking to us and pushing us onwards. We frequently need to persevere with a period of inner turmoil before the dust can settle and be swept out the door.”

— Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

A transcript of this segment and each subsequent session will be posted (for anyone interested) at http://www.sidewayseight.co which is my main outlet for personal poetry and photography: Sideways Eight Projects.

If your word matters to you, if words matter to you, make the promise first, then spend every moment living your way into the fulfillment.

Hello fantastic people! My name is Jesse James Ziegler. I am the current Poet in Residence for the Bruka Theatre of the Sierra in Reno, Nevada. I’m a member of the Sierra Literary Cooperative and the spoken word/poetry contributor to Reno Arts News. I am an active poet, special event MC, principle photographer, special event series host, and now weekly wellness writing workshop host in collaboration with Spoken Views Collective of which I am also a Board Member.

This Weeks Writing Prompt:

This week’s Prompt : How does individual healing bring about community healing?

I want for this podcast style personal portion to contain information about famous writers and their quotes as well as, futuristically speaking, local guests to this program who help everyone involved gain a diversity of perspective and positively impact our individual process.

Quote(s) of the Week:(6)

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.”

— Wendell Berry The Body and the Earth

”Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”

– Tori Amos

”Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.”

– Rachel Naomi Remen

”Healing yourself is connected with healing others.”

– Yoko Ono

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.”

— Sharon Weil

I’m hoping this sharing and vulnerability I’m demonstrating will encourage others who love creative writing as well to open up, by sharing from their innermost, related to the topic provided. I’m hoping we all gain perspective, compassion, hope, and discipline through such organized sharing.

Piece or Pieces of the Week: (3)

In flight instructions

Boxes

In need

For further personal reading

Healing individuals heals communities

Systemic Change

Life After Trauma

Community Healing

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: If your life were to be broken into seasons of a series others could binge watch,

what would the names of some of the episodes be?

Shout Outs

to Donald Griffin of Black Wall Street

for grinding constantly and helping to improve

our community daily.

to Shaughn Richardson and Cesar Lopez

of the Up in The Mix Podcast

for making me think differently

about life, in a good way every time

@upinthemix

to Jennifer Calzada and Sa Moura Horsley

for co-creating the Bruka Poetry Gathering

segment with me as a contribution, on behalf

of poetry as an art form, for Bruka Theatre’s soon to be released ‘Biggest Little Theatre Festival for Youth’

to Iain Watson of Spoken Views Collective

who has given me wonderful opportunities to share what I love, even when it hurts, especially when it hurts, when I’m tired, cranky, cynical, or unappreciative, thank you.

to everyone out there doing the shadow work

improving themselves so they may contribute more to their neighborhoods, their communities, their cities, states, countries, cultures, and humanity at large. Keep up the good work.

Closing Sentiments and an Invitation

“Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species.”

— Dean Ornish

That’s it for my personal portion. If this is where you get off this train of thought, because you checked in to listen, thank you for tuning in and absorbing. I appreciate your time and consideration. If you are here for the Weekly Wellness Writing Workshop group portion via Zoom Meeting, please transition to that application now using the link provided in the details/description section of the Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page for ‘Collective Breath’. The link to watch previous episodes is in the bio section of the Collective Breath Instagram page @biggestlittlecollectivebreath

‘Keep’ (my frictionless benediction)

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep giving. Keep doing. Keep daring to believe in a better way of living. Keep loving and creating. Keep each other safe and sound. Keep it real, and keep the faith. I love you. Goodbye for now.

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