There is no such thing as an un-creative individual. In fact, have you ever noticed there isn’t even a word for a being who lacks creativity? This is because the word for that being is “lunch.” In other words, just surviving through the lunch rush can take some pretty fancy footwork. To get creative isContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Getting Creative”
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Being Brave with Bruce: Take a Big Deep Breath
If there is one thing tough times seem tailor-made to teach us, it might be simply this…. You can never get enough oxygen. It might not seem like a big deal to you-as-a-whole. But at the micro-cosmic level, when you start holding your breath, all those cells and protons and neutrons and neural connections reallyContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Take a Big Deep Breath”
Resting in Place with Malti: A Raspberry A Day
There are days when everything just flows. You keep to your set schedule. Those check-marks next to all those to-do list items keep piling up. You feel on top of it all. And then there are the other days. You know the ones. You want them to end but they can’t seem to get enoughContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: A Raspberry A Day”
Being Brave with Bruce: A Fresh New View
Routine can be comforting. You wake up, pop open your box, slowly stretch out your (adorable, yellow-dotted) front legs, back legs, tail, head. You soak up some rays as usual, then head out to forage up your tasty breakfast. And so it goes, one day following another. Until one day you start to wonder ifContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: A Fresh New View”
Resting in Place with Malti: Stand Up Tall
When you are lucky enough to be born with four short legs (instead of, say, two tall legs), you master “walking” pretty much right away. Before you’ve even hardly exited your small round white escape pod, you are walking like a pro. Go you! But “standing,” well, that is another matter. Maybe you don’t wantContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Stand Up Tall”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Be the Bread
Sometimes life hands you big challenges. And you can’t always count on others to appreciate what you are facing. From the outside looking in, your life might look easy peasy – so posh and pampered. But from the inside looking out, you know you have big responsibilities on your tiny feathery shoulders. For example, youContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Be the Bread”
Being Brave with Bruce: Best Laid Plans
Plans are good. In fact, plans are great. Or at least they are great until they stop working. Just like there is something to be said for planning ahead, strategizing, sticking to the tried and true, so too is there a place for mixing things up when your best laid plans have clearly made otherContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Best Laid Plans”
Resting in Place with Malti: Have a Berry Good Day
Not every day is going to deliver sunshine and smiles perfectly on command. Sometimes you just have to make your own. Here, it helps to have a list of your favorite things handy. Reason being, if you don’t know what makes you happy, it is harder to turn your frowns upside down. It is alsoContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Have a Berry Good Day”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: the Master Rooster
Being the “alpha” flock member is a big job. Everybody thinks they want that job until they get it. Then they find out why you need so many restful naps (“beta” flock members are hard work!). Of course, an experienced “alpha” knows how to make the job easier. For starters, you want to stick togetherContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: the Master Rooster”
Being Brave with Bruce: All Kinds of Brave
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”
Love & Feathers & Shells 