Darkness happens. But it doesn’t only happen at night, when it is wonderful and helps you get your cuteness-enhancing beauty rest. Sometimes darkness also happens during the daytime. When this happens, it can sometimes get to your (large, featherless) flockmates. Luckily, this is also when all that cuteness-enhancing beauty rest really pays off. You canContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Be the Light”
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Being Brave with Bruce: Sharing Your Shell
When you’ve never known life without having a shell of your very own, it is hard to imagine what it might be like not to have one. Right from birth, your shell has been your refuge. It is there whenever you need it. Tired? Cold? Scared? Just sit down, pull in and your shell’s gotContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Sharing Your Shell”
Resting in Place with Malti: Green Is Great
It has been said that it isn’t easy being green. These are potent words of truth. But then again, it isn’t easy to be brown. Or red. Or black. Or orange. Or grey and white. Which is why the place to start is always with loving the color you’ve got. When you love your ownContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Green Is Great”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Molti-tasking
When you are a card-carrying member of the food chain o’ life, multi-tasking is just one of your many super powers. “Staying alive” is, of course, your number one super power. But this is not to steal limelight from your many other super powers, such as sleeping with one eye open, shrieking up to 123ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Molti-tasking”
Being Brave with Bruce: Love Lifts You Up
There is something to be said for being very short, silent and shelled. You can slip under the radar, so to speak. And when you have the good style sense to select a “survival-friendly” camouflaging shell color like, say, olive, this ability is amplified. Other beings – especially the very large, loud, shell-less ones -ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Love Lifts You Up”
Resting in Place with Malti: Happy Head Pats
Being born with a hard brown shell on your back has its pros and its cons. On the “pros” side, you have your handy “rock disguise” at the ready whenever you need it (or just want it, for that matter). On the “cons” side, other beings often assume that because you are hard on theContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Happy Head Pats”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Taking a Stand
Interspecies relationships can be complicated. There are lots of reasons why. One reason is the all-too-common tendency towards using labels. “Cutest.” “Hungriest.” “Loudest.” “Fiercest.” “Snooziest.” Sure, maybe you are the cutest flock member (this being self-evident, since you are also the only flock member who is covered in soft downy feathers). But this doesn’t mean youContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Taking a Stand”
Being Brave with Bruce: Showing Your Face
Being a low, slow shelled being in a fast high world is a tall order on the best of days. Which means it is an especially tall order these days. On the plus side, you have your handy box – right up on top of your own back – if you just want to curlContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Showing Your Face”
Resting in Place with Malti: Good Big Stuff
Living life slow and low to the ground gives you a unique perspective most beings miss out on. For starters, you see – and appreciate – the small stuff. Some of it is very small stuff, indeed. But then you also get to notice how small stuff can become big stuff over time. This isContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Good Big Stuff”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: The Waffle Watcher
When you live in an interspecies flock, and you are all cooped up together because some (alleged) infectious particles have gotten loose and are on the lam, it is nice to find some hobbies you can all enjoy doing together. Take “watching,” for example. Many different species have something they enjoy watching. So you canContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: The Waffle Watcher”
Love & Feathers & Shells 