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”
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Resting in Place with Malti: Savor the Sweet Stuff
Sometimes the best thing about a day is that you get to wake up for it. In other words, no one sitting one rung higher up on the food chain o’ life successfully orders you for breakfast that morning. So you go out, forage around, have a wallow, have a nap, forage some more, goContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Savor the Sweet Stuff”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Sometimes You Gotta Stretch
Being full-feathered and naturally athletic and aerodynamic, you know all about the importance of stretching. Stretching accomplishes a number of important goals. For instance, when you stretch your soft grey-and-white wings, the ladybirds (and every other being) can see how cute you are. When you stretch your heart, you can find a way to welcomeContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Sometimes You Gotta Stretch”
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”
Resting in Place with Malti: Stop and Steady
Life can be hard work. Isn’t it the truth? Every day brings so many choices. So many challenges. You don’t know at the start of each new day how (or whether) you will get to the other end. Sometimes all that stress can really start to pile up. You can feel so much pressure toContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Stop and Steady”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: the Way of the Waffle
The research has yet to confirm this, but it is only a matter of time. Waffles are wise. It takes smarts to be that tasty. To so master the art of personal presentation. To amass a worldwide following. To bring diverse groups of beings together – even beings of different species! When you have aContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: the Way of the Waffle”
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”
Resting in Place with Malti: How Do You Spell LOVE?
When it comes to love, it doesn’t matter if you have a shell, no shell, feathers, fur, fins or none of the above. Everyone has a love language. Every being has something that says “I love you” more than anything else. That something – whether it is shell scratches or a sweet private mud wallowContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: How Do You Spell LOVE?”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: You-tastic
Just because you know you are very cute, talented, pretty and perfect doesn’t automatically mean other beings will agree with you. You can waste a whole life waiting for others to get with the program already. Or you can take charge of what you already know to be true. You can stop caring what othersContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: You-tastic”
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”
Love & Feathers & Shells 