As any being who has ever been rescued knows, being brave is definitely an inside job. Sometimes being brave means standing on your own, persevering, crossing that busy street to get to the other side. And sometimes being brave means letting the tall and terrifying shell-less beings intercept you just as you are about toContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: All Kinds of Brave”
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Being Brave with Bruce: When You Need a Friend
Into every life some little challenges will fall. But it is the big challenges that really like to make a grand entrance. You may be just minding your own business, going about your daily life as usual, when…. WHOMP. A big ol’ challenge just plonks itself down smack-dab in front of you. Right in theContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: When You Need a Friend”
Being Brave with Bruce: A Standup Guy
Spend enough time as a card-carrying member of the food chain o’ life and it is easy to feel pigeonholed. No matter what you do, some beings will always just see you as supper. Other beings will think because you are short and shelled, they can pluck you out of your home and take youContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: A Standup Guy”
Being Brave with Bruce: One Small Step
It doesn’t take long after emerging from your small white escape pod that you start to notice all beings didn’t get the same number of feet. Some don’t even have any feet at all. (To your mind, this doesn’t seem advantageous.) Some beings have two feet. This is a little better. But you – youContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: One Small Step”
Being Brave with Bruce: Love the Shell You Are In
Popping out of your small round white escape pod for the first time can be a bit of a shocker. You’ve got to get to know yourself. Take stock. Call roll. Do an inventory. So, okay. Maybe first you notice you’ve got claws. Claws are good. You have a shell on your back. Oh, andContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Love the Shell You Are In”
Being Brave with Bruce: Green Is Great
When you are born short and shelled, you spend a lot of time with green beings. This gives you an appreciation your bigger, taller planet-mates often lack. For example, green is great for camouflaging things. Things like you. Green symbolizes growth. And if you are still growing you must still be here. (As in, notContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Green Is Great”
Being Brave with Bruce: Claws of Comfort
There is something to be said for staying prepared. Even if you are of a peaceable temperament (more naturally inclined towards defense rather than offense, so to speak), your claws are still there. And you still know how to use them. Just in case. Plus, it can be a great self-esteem booster to look downContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Claws of Comfort”
Being Brave with Bruce: Keep Your Friends Close
It can be a lot to take on – living the wild life. Every day, you know who the buck stops with. You. Whether the threat o’ the day is enormous and carnivorous or microscopic and infectious, when you get all the way to the end of it, you will know who you have toContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Keep Your Friends Close”
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”
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”
Love & Feathers & Shells 