Living the wild life can be perilous, for sure. Perilous enough to tempt you to leave your wild days behind you for good. Yet here, it can be equally tempting to assume that by changing where or even how you live, you will never again land in a sticky situation. What is that they say?ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Love You No Matter What”
Author Archives: Shannon Cutts
Resting in Place with Malti: Champion Rester
From the outside looking in, resting looks so easy. Like anyone could do it. But you know what they say about those who make something look easy. They are the pros. A champion rester will never let on all the heavy lifting and hard work that goes on “behind the scenes,” so to speak, ofContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Champion Rester”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: The Brave and the Fluffy
Even if you have downy soft fluffy feathers completely covering your body and can “cuteness stun” potential predators like nobody’s business, you still never know what a day may bring. So you have to bring both. The brave and the fluffy. This way, if you try “fluffy” and it doesn’t work, you still have “brave.”ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: The Brave and the Fluffy”
Being Brave with Bruce: Window of the Soul
The decision to join an interspecies flock is not one to be taken lightly. There will be challenges. For sure. Take communication, for example. You won’t be able to have any – at least not at first. Because of this, every single aspect of flock life will seem to proceed at a glacial pace, withContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Window of the Soul”
Resting in Place with Malti: Take Shelter
Each day has its own energy, its own rhythm, its own personality. In fact, it could be said that a day itself is as alive as the beings living it! For instance, there are days when you just feel like roaming. You have all this energy zinging through you and you want to go hereContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Take Shelter”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Getting Creative
There is no such thing as an un-creative individual. In fact, have you ever noticed there isn’t even a word for a being who lacks creativity? This is because the word for that being is “lunch.” In other words, just surviving through the lunch rush can take some pretty fancy footwork. To get creative isContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Getting Creative”
Being Brave with Bruce: One of a Kind You
Being born with a cute curved shell and adorable orange cheek patches can make it seem like it would be so easy to be yourself. After all, who wouldn’t want to be you? The cuteness! The preciousness! The perfectness! But then again, it is all a matter of perspective. To some beings, just the sightContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: One of a Kind You”
Resting in Place with Malti: Letting the Love In
When you first pop out the top of your small round white escape pod, you get so much attention. So much love. Everyone “oohs” and “aahs” over how cute you are, how pint-sized and perfect. You get lots of lap time. Photo moments. The freshest and best of everything. Then you get bigger. And bigger.ContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Letting the Love In”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: What Goes Down
Up is good. Up feels great. Everyone likes “up.” But then there is what comes next. Down. Down has fewer fans. Some outright foes. And more than a few frenemies. Yet “up” and “down” aren’t so different, in the sense that when you are down, well, you know what is coming next. That’s right. Up!ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: What Goes Down”
Being Brave with Bruce: Take a Big Deep Breath
If there is one thing tough times seem tailor-made to teach us, it might be simply this…. You can never get enough oxygen. It might not seem like a big deal to you-as-a-whole. But at the micro-cosmic level, when you start holding your breath, all those cells and protons and neutrons and neural connections reallyContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Take a Big Deep Breath”
Love & Feathers & Shells 