Spend enough time as a participating member in the food chain o’ life and you will find plenty of reasons to keep your eyes on the ground and your business to yourself. In other words, if no one knows you and no one sees you, no one can eat you. But that kind of lifeContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Looking Up”
Author Archives: Shannon Cutts
Resting in Place with Malti: Turtle Cuddles
Daily life in an interspecies flock takes on an especially interesting dimension when most of your flock are introverts. It can sometimes feel like you spend most of your time competing to see how far away from each other you can get. But just because you like your alone-time (whether “in shell” or “out ofContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Turtle Cuddles”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Good Reason to Stretch
“Stretching” is under-rated. Sometimes it can seem like if something doesn’t just come to you effortlessly, it isn’t meant for you. But when you are born as a small and delicious prey species, you know the predators don’t see it that way. Anything as tasty as you is worth stretching for! And so you alsoContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Good Reason to Stretch”
Being Brave with Bruce: Simply Irresistible
There is no doubt that some beings pop out cuter than others. It doesn’t seem fair, but there it is. However, being perched at the very tippy top of the “cuteness chain” isn’t all sunshine and lady box turtles. It can also get you plated and served faster than you can say “your order isContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Simply Irresistible”
Happy Day O’ Treats From Our Flock to Yours!
Living in an interspecies flock pretty much guarantees you will run across some customs that seem more than a little (or a lot) strange. Take “Halloween,” for example. This event appears to happen in phases. During the “Disguise Phase,” the large featherless / shell-less beings all pretend to be somebody else. Whoever does the bestContinueContinue reading “Happy Day O’ Treats From Our Flock to Yours!”
Resting in Place with Malti: Practicing Patience
Being born slow and low to the ground is no guarantee of patience. The only way you get that is to work for it. Even worse, patience can be oh-so stealthy and elusive when it wants to be. Which can be really annoying until you remember your secret weapon. “Cuteness.” Even patience can’t resist aContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Practicing Patience”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Song In Your Heart
Waking up for another whole day is not for amateurs. You just never know who might be waiting – or how hungry they may be feeling. But there are places to go, things to do and ladybirds to meet. So “up” it is….scared or not, prepared or not. The first thing you want to doContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Song In Your Heart”
Being Brave with Bruce: All That You Are
Just being born with a hard outer shell automatically means you are brave. After all, you wouldn’t come with extra built-in body armor if you didn’t need it! But not being covered in something warmer, cuddlier, often means that other beings miss perceiving the softer side of you. In other words, all they see ofContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: All That You Are”
Resting in Place with Malti: the Chill Zone
You don’t have to spend many days on this small round blue and green planet before you figure out that every day is different. Days, like beings, have their own unique personalities. One day might be bubbly, zesty, all about celebrating and snacking and socializing. The next day might be totally different, clogged up withContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: the Chill Zone”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: the Kitchen Cockatiel
When you are small and round and covered in downy feathers, other beings may not automatically assume you know your way around a kitchen. They won’t look at you and instantly think you have the keenest and most sensitive of gourmet palates. And most won’t ever change their mind about this, either. But you don’tContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: the Kitchen Cockatiel”
Love & Feathers & Shells 