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”
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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”
Resting in Place with Malti: Love Is Love
It is a weird time to be alive – when one minute personal space fetches a premium price and the next minute you can’t give the stuff away. Social distancing was made for no species….least of all the uninvited microscopic party crashers that simply refuse to leave the rest of us alone. But there isContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Love Is Love”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Be the Cuteness
There are some days you may wake up, take a glance out at the current events unfolding on our small round blue planet and quite justifiably decide it’s a great day to go back to bed. No matter where your eyes may fall or what your ears may hear, it can seem there is noContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Be the Cuteness”
Being Brave with Bruce: Opening Up the Box
Being a card carrying member of the wild life doesn’t leave much time for making friends. After all, everybody needs to eat…every single day. You know the moment you wake up each morning that it is game on once again. All day, every day, you keep your eyes peeled for delicacies while remaining hyper-aware thatContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Opening Up the Box”
Resting in Place with Malti: Brave Tortoise Face
There isn’t anything braver in this world than tumbling out of your little white escape pod into a great wide world with only the shell on your back for company. You could say you are born to be brave – and indeed, you are. From moment one, you are “it.” You are your own chefContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Brave Tortoise Face”
Being Brave with Bruce: Two Shells Is Better
There is no doubt that “the shell” is a very good design. It is lightweight, attractive, sleek and stealthy. Tired? Take a snooze inside your shell. Looking for lunch? Hunker down in your shell to scope for snacks. Looking like lunch? Snap shut and send the predator packing for greener (well, browner) pastures. Depending onContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Two Shells Is Better”
Resting in Place with Malti: Super Stealth Shell
Being born with a shell means you are naturally very stealthy. The fact that you are also born low to the ground and slow and steady is just icing on the proverbial (tortoise-sized) cake. But sometimes you find that you want or need to add even an extra layer of stealth. For instance, maybe thereContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Super Stealth Shell”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Put a Heart On It
In large featherless circles, when you like something – or someone – you’re supposed to put a ring on it. What the large featherless beings don’t know is that a heart can work just as well. For example, let’s say you are having a bit of a bum day. The news from the large rectangularContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Put a Heart On It”
Resting in Place with Malti: Soak for Success
It can be unsettling to wake up one day and discover you are suddenly at war with an opponent you can’t even see. Your enemy can get aerial without wings, survive for days (weeks) on surfaces without sustenance, stay dormant nearly indefinitely without losing any of their super-scary infectious powers. In a word….ACK. But thereContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Soak for Success”
Love & Feathers & Shells 