When you come from a vocal and social flocking species, social distancing just goes against your very feathery grain. In other words, no one ever made any hay by staying six feet away. Or any cute cockatiel eggs, for that matter. Luckily, as an avian you know all about going on line to stay connected.ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Going On Line”
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Being Brave with Bruce: Claws for Days
When participation in the food chain o’ life isn’t an elective, you want to make sure you bring your very best A-game (and all its fancy accessories) to every single interaction. Suit up and then show up, so to speak. Speaking of accessories, here it can help to have a range of options to matchContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Claws for Days”
Resting in Place with Malti: Stop and Smell the Ferns
Life sure can get hectic sometimes. And crazy. And busy. It can seem like it goes by in the blink of an eye. This can make it all too easy to forget to stop. Take a big deep breath in. And a big deep breath out. Take a look around you. Stop and smell theContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Stop and Smell the Ferns”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Use Your Noodle
When you are born small and cute, not to mention delicious and (handily) appetizer-sized, you never view self-care as optional. You need to be in tip-top fighting form at all times. Getting enough beauty rest, scheduling fitness-building chewing and remodeling activities, making time each day to preen your aerodynamic feathers, eating the most nourishing snacksContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Use Your Noodle”
Being Brave with Bruce: What the World Needs Now
There are times when unfolding events on this small round blue and green planet can feel really stressful. Oh so stressful. The news about, well, basically everything, sounds so grim. There are micro-particles on the loose everywhere and they aren’t very friendly. Even worse, the latest fashion trend sweeping the ranks of your large shell-lessContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: What the World Needs Now”
Resting in Place with Malti: Like a Rock
Being born slow and steady is typically vastly underrated. While everyone else is focusing on how you can’t zip around like those weird furry hopping beings you’re always being compared to, they miss seeing your superpower. Impressions. For example, your impression of a stationary rock is world-class. This is a real bonus when a bigContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Like a Rock”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Feel the Force
Many theories exist about if or how we are all connected. It is a pretty amazing thing to think about. What if we are really more alike than different? What if beings with feathers, beings with no feathers and (shocker) even beings with shells shared an invisible, powerful, positive and benevolent connection? If there wasContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Feel the Force”
Being Brave with Bruce: What Box Turtle?
“Extreme cuteness.” In some scenarios, it can be such a blessing. Then again, there are those other scenarios. Truth be told, you don’t pop right out of your round white escape hatch knowing how to dial down the cuteness when the situation calls for it. To that point, you also don’t know which situations mightContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: What Box Turtle?”
Resting in Place with Malti: a Grandma and Her Girl
There are all kinds of reasons it makes smart sense to live in an interspecies flock. For instance, by surrounding yourself by unfamiliar customs and cultures, you can keep your neural connections young and sharp. When your flock includes cold-blooded beings (such as yourself) and also warm-blooded beings (such as your furry bestie and yourContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: a Grandma and Her Girl”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Eye Spy
It is no small feat to make it through one or 10 or 21 years of living in the greater food chain o’ life. To wake up every single morning of your life and realize that, by evening of that very same day, one of two things will have occurred…. A) You will have eaten.ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Eye Spy”
Love & Feathers & Shells 