“Good life” means different things to different beings. If you are a large shell-less being, perhaps living a good life means you survived another day on the lam from a certain set of highly infectious microscopic particles. Or it might mean you return home that night to discover your (wine) glass is half-full yet again.ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Living the Good Green Life”
Author Archives: Shannon Cutts
Resting in Place with Malti: Nose to Nose
When the large shell-less beings love each other, they like to do something called “dancing cheek to cheek.” Of course, when you happen to have a shell, this also means your ears and your cheeks are located in pretty much the same place, which can make hearing the dance beat tricky at best. (Never mindContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Nose to Nose”
Happy Day O’ Independence from Love & Feathers & Shells
When you are just a chick and your bullying flockmates bite off your left wing tip and three of your eight powerful sharp curved talons, independence becomes kind of a thing. You had it when you were born. But now you don’t have it. You can’t fly like the other birds. You need help toContinueContinue reading “Happy Day O’ Independence from Love & Feathers & Shells”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Love Makes the World Go Round
This world serves up so many lessons even on a daily basis. It can feel unrealistic – at best – to expect to learn them all. Here, the best strategy is to just concentrate on the most important lessons. For example: “round is good.” This is an easy one. Round is clearly the best shape,ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Love Makes the World Go Round”
Being Brave with Bruce: Getting Back Out There
Life frequently seems to present more questions than answers. There is the question of what will become of our small (shared) round blue planet. And the question of what it might be like when you get a lot older than you are now. And then there is the question of when to “get back outContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Getting Back Out There”
Resting in Place with Malti: the Doorway of Hope
To be born small and shelled is to be born slow and delicious. There is no better (um) recipe for hope than this one. Every day, you hope to eat and not be eaten. Every night, you aspire to snooze and not be seen. In summer, your goal is to stay cool, while in winter,ContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: the Doorway of Hope”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Strike While the Waffle Iron Is Hot
The large featherless beings can have some very strange ideas about things. Take the word “waffling,” for instance. Your large featherless assistant uses this word in all kinds of odd ways. She seems to think it means “not being able to make up your mind.” You can tell because she frequently struggles from this veryContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Strike While the Waffle Iron Is Hot”
Being Brave With Bruce: A Time to Step Up
There are days when it is a good day to hide. Such as the day you wake up to (are woken up by) the shrieks of the hungry hawk babies in the tree next door as they scream for their breakfast. Which, in turn, attracts the feline from one house over – a furry, fangedContinueContinue reading “Being Brave With Bruce: A Time to Step Up”
Resting in Place with Malti: Going Glamping
Living the outdoor life doesn’t always mean you like things rustic. Sure, there can be times when life gets a little….lean….but you know it is just a matter of time before you are flush once again. When you are slow and low to the ground and a natural observer, it is easy to see howContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Going Glamping”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Going All In
If there is one thing in life that is certain, it is uncertainty. This is certainly not a comforting fact. And yet what can be comforting is knowing you’ve got what it takes – whatever life hands you, you are going to make something fabulous from it. You are going to find the gem, theContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Going All In”
Love & Feathers & Shells 