Shannon Cutts

Resting in Place with Malti: A Little Love Goes a Long Way

When you are born slow and low to the ground, you are easy to miss. This can sometimes be a good thing. Since the majority of the other rungs on the food chain o’ life are occupied by beings who are taller than you, you can more easily fly (well, crawl) under the radar whenContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: A Little Love Goes a Long Way”

Cuteness for Comfort: Blue Is the Color of My True Love’s Pillow

When you are lucky enough to be born with four (not three) vision cones and can see all the really cool colors, you understand that color has power beyond simple good taste. Although good taste is always nice too. Speaking of good taste, according to modern color psychology “white” is considered to be the colorContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort: Blue Is the Color of My True Love’s Pillow”

Being Brave with Bruce: the Many Faces of Brave

It is easy to think of “brave” as being only when you are presenting your full-on, nostrils-first, wide-eyed, out-in-the-open self to the world. To face the scary things. To stare down the pack of slavering challenges staring back. But the truth is, brave doesn’t have just one face. Sometimes the bravest thing you can doContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: the Many Faces of Brave”

Resting in Place with Malti: N-Okay Days

Some days, life is a-okay. The papaya is flowing. The water is so crisp and refreshing it tastes like a whole school of (Grandma’s organic steamed) salmon just swam through it. All is well. Then there are other days. You know the ones. The n-okay days. When one of those power-hungry, time-stealing, soul-sucking n-okay daysContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: N-Okay Days”

Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Find Yourself a Tall Tree

It doesn’t matter if you are big or small, tall or short, feathered or (sob) featherless. Some days are just tougher than others. But this is what nature is for. Whether it is a memory you need to heal from, a present-day circumstance not quite to your liking or a distressing overabundance of shelled beingsContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Find Yourself a Tall Tree”

Being Brave with Bruce: Feeling Fern-tastic

As everyone knows, orange is the best color. Orange has so many great properties. For example, orange is a fabulous choice for colorful accents like, say, cheek patches. Of course, not every being can wear orange well. For those who can’t, the next best color is green. Green is the color of nature. It isContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Feeling Fern-tastic”

Resting in Place with Malti: Love Is In the Air

Sometimes you just know love is in the air. Reason being, you can smell it. It smells so fragrant. The scent is so divine you can almost taste it. You feel so strongly that you are loved – just as you are, for who you are. You know deep within that you are a lovingContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Love Is In the Air”

Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Living the Flavorful Life

Life is full of flavors. When you start racking up the years (heck, decades), you start to notice your life has all the flavors, each at different times perhaps, but overall in fairly equal measure. Salty. Bitter. Sour. Savory. And sweet. This means when a flavor arrives that is less preferred, you can remember itContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Living the Flavorful Life”

Being Brave with Bruce: Putting Yourself Out There

Being born with a (cute, curved) shell on your back doesn’t always means you will turn out to be an introvert. But it is a pretty safe bet. That shell can just look too tempting, feel too comforting. And comfort is great, for sure. But it can also be isolating. Especially when there are microscopicContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Putting Yourself Out There”

Resting in Place with Malti: Put Your Feet Up

If there is one truth you can count on, it is this…. The world isn’t getting any less complicated. Or any less crowded. Or any less crazy. This means you can’t go “out there” and find serenity, sanctuary, space. But there is a place you can go to find all of these things. The keyContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Put Your Feet Up”