COLLECTIVE BREATH – Week of Sunday, September 27th, 2020

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A need to be held

The tongue will bend, tear, twist, and swell,

but it will not, it cannot be broken.

It holds no bones, yet if it isn’t held well,

it breaks hearts by cutting words spoken.

This micropoem was inspired by thoughts surrounding freedom of speech, stemming from this week’s writing prompt on Collective Breath. We ask ‘can we say something?’ more often than ‘should we say something?’

A brief stroll into nearly any comments section will quickly descend into mutiny of thought and grammar, mixed with a severe lack of mutual respect, civil discourse, critical thinking, and positivity.

Touching on a previous theme, I have a responsibility to use my freedoms wisely, and act in sustainable ways.

Introduction:

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.

This past week on Wednesday I had the good fortune and freedom to witness two great events in the world of poetry. One locally, one globally.

Locally: I was able to host the Spoken Views Collective Virtual Open Mic, video of which will be made available for later viewing and revisiting of poignant material. Amazing guests. Amazing audience. Amazing poetry having the freedom to speak in a safe cultivated space.

Globally: Never before in the history of America’s Got Talent had a poetry /spoken word artist made it to the TV stage before. Brandon Leake ( @brandon_leake_ctm ) not only got to audition again after a first bid years before, he received the golden buzzer from Howie Mandel, and proceeded to win the entire competition! That victory by a previous Spoken Views Collective Showcase Performer at our local Holland Project, a Simpson University Alum, Stockton CA native, that victory, will give the art form of poetry more freedom, opportunity, and exposure than has previously been encouraged or even possible.

Thank you Brandon for SLAMming down that wall.

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 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 : Respond to the question – When do you feel completely free?

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)

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”

— Jim MORRISON

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”

— Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”

— Malala Yousafzai

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)

FAST LANE

ELEVATOR

SOMEONE I CAN SHARE

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 ‘Fall’ as we just went through the autumnal equinox. We will ‘Fall’ into next week.

Closing Sentiments and an Invitation

As you go about the upcoming week, exercising the freedoms you have, please marinate on these words in relation to actions performed and thoughts generated…

“Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.”

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

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 ‘Collective Breath’ Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page.

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep doing. 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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COLLECTIVE BREATH – Week of Sunday, September 20th, 2020

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Introduction:

We spent time in a previous episode of collective breath speaking about true power. This week we’ll be discussing a heavily related topic: Responsibility.

“With great power there must also come great responsibility”, or simply “With great power comes great responsibility”, alternatively known as the Peter Parker principle, is a proverb popularized by the Spider-Man comic books written by Stan Lee, though clearly conceptually dating from (at the latest) 1793, during the French Revolution. That formulation is used by book authors and journalists, in politics, royalty rhetoric, military exchanges, justification of law enforcement hierarchy, public safety, and across various media platforms.

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.

On my sleeve

Posted on May 26, 2018

by SIDEWAYS EIGHT

Neither do we exist in the past or the future as everyone already knows. However, the present moment dares us to share our souls and wear our hearts on our sleeves. We can address the elephant in the room, even if it leaves, assess the lack of compassion and the absence of responsibility, all while putting our own hearts out into the universe for consumption. Others may question our intentions and our motives, while scoffing at our efforts, and doubting our results, but they create nothing. We cannot a afford a pause or a stop in the momentum of love. But, we must pause to appreciate the moments of splendor that it brings. If need be we must find where the fabric is hidden that will allow for us to wear bigger sleeves, such that we might accommodate our ever growing hearts.

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 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 : Respond to the singular word: Responsibility

In mobster/mafia films such as the 1997 film Donnie Brasco, there are exchanges like the following…

Donnie Brasco (1997)

I’m telling you, this guy’s all right.

You vouch for him?

When I knew him before, he was all right…

You vouch for the guy?

Essentially, will you take it upon yourself? Are you willing to accept that it’s all on you if something goes south, or someone doesn’t work out? Will you be responsible for another person’s actions?

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:(5)

Look at the word responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

— Stephen R. Covey

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” ~ Winston Churchill.

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”

― Noam Chomsky

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”

― Anais Nin

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)

An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet.[1] The word comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek ἀκροστιχίς, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος “highest, topmost” and στίχος “verse”. As a form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval.

This weeks writing prompt gave me the excuse to create an example of such a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out the title, and the contents of each line gives an example of the title in our lives…

Responsibility

Kingston

Response

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: respond to the question ‘When do you feel completely free?’

Closing Sentiments and an Invitation

Between now and next Sunday, on Wednesday, September 23rd, starting at 6:30pm, I will personally be hosting the Spoken Views Collective Virtual Open Mic. Participants can register at svcbooking@gmail.com. Audience is welcomed and encouraged by using the Zoom Meeting link provided in the Facebook Event page. (Link Here) https://facebook.com/events/s/svc-presents-virtual-open-mic-/1222247471465143/?ti=icl

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 ‘Collective Breath’ Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page.

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep doing. 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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COLLECTIVE BREATH – Week of Sunday, September 13th, 2020

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Opening Poem: SIMPLY THE BEST

Introduction:

“So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn’t even budge.”

— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

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.

Just this last Friday we acknowledged, marked, and honored the 19th anniversary of the September 11th attacks which left carnage and questions in three states and everyone’s minds. My generation’s Kennedy Assassination moment in which everyone I’ve talked to remembers where they were and what they were doing when they found out the horrific news. Rest In Peace. Never forget. Always faithful. Fast forward nearly two decades and our first responders are still grinding it out. Please keep them safe and sound.

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 am an active poet, special event MC, principle photographer, special event series host, and weekly wellness writing workshop host in collaboration with Spoken Views Collective.

This Weeks Writing Prompt:

This week’s Prompt : respond to the question: What would you save first?

When I was a child in Grass Valley Cali, I remember my Dad saying “You get one bag.”

The 49er fire was bearing down in our area and we might have to evacuate at a moment’s notice. “It needs a good handle, and you need to be able to carry it yourself.” I remember wanting to put a few pictures that would have been impossible to replace, some of my most prized baseball cards, my journals, a few of my favorite volumes, and enough clothes to get by. COVID has us asking what is essential. Wildfires, Floods, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and social justice movements have us asking what and who to save. When disaster strikes, what would you save first? Each other? Pets, Legal Documents such as birth certificates and passports, Pictures, Fine Jewelry, sentimental gifts, survival gear, books, nothing?

That’s what we’ll be discussing on this week’s episode of Collective Breath: What would you save first?

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)

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.”

— J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”

— Natsuki Takaya

“It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”

— Frank Warren

“There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

— Banksy

“Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.”

— Nikita Gill, Your Body is an Ocean: Love and Other Experiments

“When the last individual member of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.”

— William Beebe

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)

Laying in the Dust with Calamity

Beneath Faded Receipts

Nothing for the swim back

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: Respond to the singular word: Responsibility

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 ‘Collective Breath’ Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page.

My Frictionless Benediction

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep doing. 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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COLLECTIVE BREATH – Week of Sunday, September 6th, 2020

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Introduction:

According to Sunpower UK…

In an AC circuit, true power is the actual power consumed by the equipment to do useful work. It is distinguished from apparent power by eliminating the reactive power component that may be present. The true power is measured in watts and signifies the power drawn by the circuit’s resistance to do useful work.

Are we more than circuits?

That’s what’s up for discussion and creative interpretation this week – ‘True Power’

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.

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 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 : respond to the two word phrase ‘True Power’

Neel Burton M.D.

Hide and Seek

12 Laws of True Power

Power is control, control is tranquillity, tranquillity is happiness.

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY Posted May 13, 2012

1. Read lots of books. You won’t know anything otherwise. Knowledge is power.

2. Start writing, even if it is just letters or a diary. Writing forces you to uncover and complete your thoughts. It also exercises your judgement and sharpens your sense of justice.

3. Only ever act out of love. If you do what you love, it’ll feel like fun and never like work. And you’ll be very good at it.

4. Never worry about what people think. If you worry about what people think, you’ll end up thinking and being just like them

5. At the same time, always seek plenty of advice, but only from people whom you admire or seek to emulate. Best of all, seek advice from great works of literature and philosophy.

6. Cultivate courage and self-confidence, which are the products of achievement, and which lead to even greater achievement.

7. Conversely, root out all cowardice, which is a magnet for worry and bad luck.

8. Be very sensitive to your feelings and intuitions, particularly those that are recurring or long lasting. They are your unconscious made conscious. And they are almost always right.

9. But beware of your emotions (and be able to distinguish between feelings and emotions). This is particularly true of anger, which, like fear, is as destabilizing and damaging as it is misguided and superfluous.

10. If someone truly deserves your anger, just ignore him. Write him off. Bury him in the dust of his own insignificance. Happiness is the best and most complete revenge.

11. Don’t let people read your mind or understand you. Behave like a mystery wrapped in an enigma. If people can’t figure you out, they will be fascinated by you.

12. As well as cultivating fear, it can be a good idea to cultivate love. Always be very good to people, particularly when doing so is pleasant or indifferent.

Are we more than minds?

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)

“In order to communicate powerfully, we need congruency in our words, body, and voice.”

Congruency: The True Power Of Body Language From Minutes by Richard Newman

October 17, 2019

“Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.”

~ James A. Owen

“True Power is within, and it is available now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one’s false self.”

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

~ Laozi

“True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.”

~ Joy Harjo

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)

To dare the cosmos

Ten Fingers

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: Respond to the question: What would you save first?

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 ‘Collective Breath’ Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page.

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep doing. 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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COLLECTIVE BREATH – Week of Sunday, August 30th, 2020

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Introduction:

Maya Angelou

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

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.

Without going any further, I must pay my respects to Chadwick Bozeman, a true performance artist, perhaps most notably of Black Panther stardom. According to Hollywood Reporter, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther has become the top-grossing superhero film of all time in North America, not accounting for inflation. Breaking many color barriers in the process.

I remember him (Chadwick) having the grit and grace to face the challenge of playing Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film ‘42’. Jackie Robinson’s contract with the then Brooklyn Dodgers broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and fittingly, Chadwick passed away on Jackie Robinson Day in MLB. Rest In Peace. Rest in Power. Segway enough for this week we’re talking about color on the program.

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 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 : What is your favorite color, and why?

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.

According to the website associated with the National Museum of American History Behring Center in an article entitled…

The Technicolor world of Oz

By Ryan Lintelman, June 7, 2010

“People often say that the thing they remember most about The Wizard of Oz is its bright, vibrant color. The yellow brick road, the ruby slippers, and Emerald City are so richly saturated with color on screen that it’s hard to imagine the film without it! Contrary to a common misconception, Oz was not the first film made in color, but it was one of the first to prove that color could add fantasy and draw audiences to theaters, despite its release during the Great Depression.”

Since there are several parallels to be drawn between the Great Depression and now, I have an opening poem to share which is not particularly related to this weeks writing prompt, rather particularly related to these times…

A single poem in three parts read entirely through, as written and intended…

For the child born today (1of3)

Quote(s) of the Week:(5)

Coco Chanel

“The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”

Paul Cézanne

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”

Henri Matisse

“Color helps to express light—not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist’s brain.”

Frida Khalo

“I’ll try out the pencils sharpened to the point of infinity which always sees ahead”

Vincent van Gogh

“Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully… To express the love of two lovers by the marriage of two complementary colors… To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone against a dark background. To express hope by some star. Someone’s passion by the radiance of the setting sun.”

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: (2/3)

Outpouring (inspired by color in general)

Purple (answering the question in the prompt)

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: Respond to the two word phrase ‘True Power’

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 ‘Collective Breath’ Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page.

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep doing. 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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COLLECTIVE BREATH – Week of Sunday, August 23rd, 2020

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Introduction:

“Never change, or do. I’m not your boss.” Troy Barnes (Donald Glover) Greendale Community College in the TV show ‘Community’

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.

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 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 : What is the best way to build community?

I asked my dear friend Ole Lafe in Kentucky this question. His answer: “In a word, vulnerability”

This singular word demonstrates the need we have for each other. Happy Interdependence day everyone!

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According to an article by David Spinks… ‘The 10-Step Process for Building a Thriving Community from Scratch’

A person only becomes a member of a community when four things happen:

1. The community aligns with their identity

2. They trust that the community will bring them value

3. They know how to participate

4. There is a reward (intrinsic or extrinsic) for their participation

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To dig deeper into the realm of the question posed: What is the best way to build community? One can access DenverDweller.Com for a good read entitled ‘31 WAYS TO BUILD COMMUNITY IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD’ Some of my personal faves were “Build a little free library, Build a community garden, and shop locally if you live near a business district.” The article challenges the reader to spend a month building better communities and then expend the necessary energy to maintain them.

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The THNK School of Creative Leadership

have “broken down the elements of a community by giving them eight specific design characteristics.”

Collective Intention

Distinctive Identity

A Working Practice

A Safe Place

Soul Feeding Events

Personal Connections

Distributed Roles

Bringing it all Together

—-For more information and detail please visit

THNK.ORG

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)

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.” – George Bernard Shaw

“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” – Margaret J. Wheatley

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa

“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. – Marianne Williamson

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” – Herman Melville

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)

Poetry is a Battleground

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: There’s all sorts of talk about black and blue in the news which got me to thinking. What is your favorite color, and why?

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 ‘Collective Breath’ Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page.

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep doing. 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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COLLECTIVE BREATH – Week of Sunday, August 16th, 2020

Number of people attending Facebook (personal portion):

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Introduction:

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.

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 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 : Redemption

Cambridge Dictionary defines redemption as…

1. an occasion when someone is saved from evil, suffering, etc.

2. the act of exchanging bonds, shares, etc. for money

3. the state of being kept from evil or of improving morally

4. the act of paying back a loan

What is the value of redemption? If you’re an aluminum can, and a Californian, it’s a nickel. If you’re down on your luck but hungry in your soul it’s priceless.

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)

“The trouble with being the savior though, is that people don’t usually think you need saving, they don’t think you need gentleness, to the women I say know that I vow to be more gentle with you, know that you are worthy of someone who helps you with the work” — Ashlee Haze ‘Hymn (redemption song)’

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

None but our self can free our minds

Have no fear for atomic energy

‘Cause none of them can stop the time

How long shall they kill our prophets

While we stand aside and look?

Some say it’s just a part of it

We’ve got to fulfill di book”

Bob Marley – ‘Redemption Songs’

“Redemption comes

To those who wait

Forgiveness is the key

And I wish you love

And I wish you hope

Please believe in me”

Tom Petty – ‘Lonesome Sundown’

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)

For every honest comment

Splinter

Follow

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: What is the best way to build community?

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 ‘Collective Breath’ Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page.

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep doing. 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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COLLECTIVE BREATH – Week of Sunday, August 9th, 2020

Number of people attending Facebook (personal portion):

Number of people attending Zoom Meet (group portion):

Introduction:

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.

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 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 : If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

What’s the meaning of the phrase? ‘If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen’?

Don’t persist with a task if the pressure of it is too much for you. The implication being that, if you can’t cope, you should leave the work to someone who can.

What’s the origin of the phrase ‘If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen’?

This is widely reported as being coined by US President Harry S. Truman. That’s almost correct, but in fact Truman was known to have used it at least as early as 1942 – before becoming president.

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)

Neil McCauley: Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner. Dec 15, 1995 (Heat)

“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”

― Marcus Garvey

“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. ”

― Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire

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)

Darker Than Mine (pressure in attempting to be an ally)

Deafening Preparation (pressure from internal conviction)

Above the Oven (physical heat surrounding the dwelling place)

Image (pressure to seem or act a particular way)

Next Week’s Writing Prompt:

Which will also be posted across Collective Breath and Bruka Theatre’s social media platforms: Provide your response to, abstraction of, or definition of the singular word : REDEMPTION

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 ‘Collective Breath’ Bruka Theatre Facebook Event Page.

Keep writing. Keep your heart open and your mind aware. Keep coming back for more. Keep going. Keep doing. 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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