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”
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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”
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”
Being Brave with Bruce: Power Claws
Life is full of surprises. Some surprises are good – great, even. Some surprises are not so great. Some surprises are just terrible – wildly infectious and oh-so-confining – the exact opposite of what you ordered. When a surprise arrives that you really don’t like, then you need to know where to go to complain.ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Power Claws”
Being Brave with Bruce: Shades of Brave
If you are a being who has survived living in a hostile or scary or unsafe environment, other beings often label you as “brave.” And this is true. It takes a great deal of brave to survive losing your birth territory, being harassed by big hairy drooling fanged creatures, and getting passed from one homeContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Shades of Brave”
Being Brave with Bruce: Sunny Side Up
No matter how hard you try to avoid it, there may be days when you just wake up feeling like the sun isn’t shining inside you. It is behind the clouds somewhere. Or taking a break. Or maybe it went on vacation. While sometimes this feeling passes quite quickly, at other times it may linger.ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Sunny Side Up”
Being Brave with Bruce: A Foot Up
It can be quite the adjustment to go from a mostly solitary life to living in the heart of an interspecies flock. Needless to say, making the transition can take some time. At first, you may be tempted to just hide, hide, hide. After all, it has (mostly) worked well for you so far….at leastContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: A Foot Up”
Being Brave with Bruce: Mountain Climbing
Sometimes you might wake up and be really in the mood to do some mountain climbing. You are full of vim and vigor. Bring it on! You were born to summit. But then again, a mountain might arrive at just the wrong moment – such as during your winter brumation or when you are inContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Mountain Climbing”
Being Brave with Bruce: Sheltering in Place
There are moments in life where you are raring to go and life…well…isn’t. Maybe it is the height of the warm (hot) season and you couldn’t be more excited about looking for love, filling your belly and making your way in this small round blue world. Then suddenly you are told to do something calledContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Sheltering in Place”
Being Brave with Bruce: When You Need a Friend
We all need rescuing sometimes. For many of us, being rescued isn’t a once-in-a-lifetime need, either. While there is something to be said for having a well-laid plan, this can only take you so far. This is especially the case when, in the eyes of most of your planet-mates, you are exactly the right shapeContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: When You Need a Friend”
Love & Feathers & Shells 