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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...
Dec 29, 20145 min read
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This I believe.
We are all together on this ship and some of us will die sooner. Some young. I will grieve again, and comfort. It may be me. Those of...
Nov 4, 20142 min read
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Where gracefulness matters and where it doesn’t.
But this is where I want to be clear. I am not asking that my engagement with my own particular demons be clean. That I stay fully...
Mar 7, 20141 min read
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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...
Feb 18, 20141 min read
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Resilience is Power. And Peace.
“I just wanted myself back, and then to create something more. After what I’ve been through, I am not going to settle for an average...
Feb 6, 20143 min read
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Think you’re nervous? Try on gleeful.
There is HUGE power accessible through this observation, through raising my personal antenna for the experience of the symptoms and then...
Dec 5, 20131 min read
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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. ...
Sep 8, 20132 min read
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On living on the right side of the tapestry.
It doesn’t matter what it shows, though I believe there is a pond, a distant house and some small horses. The silk colors were lovely. ...
Jul 25, 20132 min read
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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...
May 27, 20131 min read
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Electric fences, lust and Pavlov
The primary side effect of a shock received directly from the electric sheep fence charger seems to be to set the mind racing. “What was...
May 22, 20131 min read
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