A Hunger for Joy — Lorca’s TEDx
I found when I had told this story here that I had never told it before — not like this. We find the opening when what needs to be...
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Sep 28, 20154 min
Radical Awakeness: Living Among Animals
I was invited to share today in part because my life and my work has become embedded in so very many animals. Our river farm is and has...
Dec 29, 20145 min
Adventures in “Deathbed” Conversations
A story and an invitation and a challenge. The story is here in this short Pecha Kucha video. This was about people playing with...
Feb 18, 20141 min
Burnout is an open door.
Sometimes I feel I must be an alien, because I really, really love to talk about death, and about burnout. But this is really why. When I...
Nov 4, 20131 min
Death, Joy & Homing Pigeons — Pecha Kucha Bozeman
#astonishment #doverelease #homingpigeons #ceremony #whitedoves #beauty #awareness #education #mindfulness #thetenthousandthings
Sep 8, 20132 min
7th Bozeman Pecha Kucha — The Anti-Internet Experience!
It’s time again! If you don’t know about it yet, you should because you’ll LOVE IT! Such a great Bozeman evening, repeated twice. ...
May 27, 20131 min
Survivors, Creativity and Leadership presentation at the Bozeman Public Library
Lorca Smetana From Chaos to Beauty: Survivors, Creativity and Leadership Brown Bag Lunch Presentation at the Bozeman Public Library...
Nov 17, 20101 min
Library release with kids!
Afterward we took all the birds out to the front lawn on Main Street. Half of the birds I gave into the hands of children, and they hand...
Oct 20, 20101 min
Bozeman Library Presentation and Release
The birds are loving these late October sunny days, but we’ve gotten out the warmers to keep the waterers from freezing at night. The...
Aug 28, 20102 min
Belgrade Senior Center Visit
Home into the aviary! Free loft for the afternoon This Wednesday I took a basket of birds to talk at the Senior Center in Belgrade. I...
Aug 19, 20101 min
Birchwood Talk and Release
Cadma, veteran hen This week I took a basket of birds up to Birchwood, the assisted living part of the Hillcrest retirement center for a...
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