Being born slow and steady is typically vastly underrated. While everyone else is focusing on how you can’t zip around like those weird furry hopping beings you’re always being compared to, they miss seeing your superpower. Impressions. For example, your impression of a stationary rock is world-class. This is a real bonus when a bigContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Like a Rock”
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Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Feel the Force
Many theories exist about if or how we are all connected. It is a pretty amazing thing to think about. What if we are really more alike than different? What if beings with feathers, beings with no feathers and (shocker) even beings with shells shared an invisible, powerful, positive and benevolent connection? If there wasContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Feel the Force”
Being Brave with Bruce: What Box Turtle?
“Extreme cuteness.” In some scenarios, it can be such a blessing. Then again, there are those other scenarios. Truth be told, you don’t pop right out of your round white escape hatch knowing how to dial down the cuteness when the situation calls for it. To that point, you also don’t know which situations mightContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: What Box Turtle?”
Resting in Place with Malti: a Grandma and Her Girl
There are all kinds of reasons it makes smart sense to live in an interspecies flock. For instance, by surrounding yourself by unfamiliar customs and cultures, you can keep your neural connections young and sharp. When your flock includes cold-blooded beings (such as yourself) and also warm-blooded beings (such as your furry bestie and yourContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: a Grandma and Her Girl”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Eye Spy
It is no small feat to make it through one or 10 or 21 years of living in the greater food chain o’ life. To wake up every single morning of your life and realize that, by evening of that very same day, one of two things will have occurred…. A) You will have eaten.ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Eye Spy”
Being Brave with Bruce: Jedi Turtle
Waking up to each new day full of unknowns is kind of scary. It is also kind of an adrenaline rush. As you bat your (adorable, red, whirling) box turtle eyes open each day, you truly have no idea if you will come face to face with the best of life…. Or the worst ofContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Jedi Turtle”
Resting in Place with Malti: Planet Saving Cuteness
It doesn’t take long after exiting your small round white escape pod before you will realize you share your planet with a vast variety of other beings of all shapes, sizes and dispositions. Some like to eat tasty green things like you do. And some like to eat….you. However, just because a being is veryContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Planet Saving Cuteness”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Man(bird) Up
Being the “alpha” man(bird) of a flock means your flock mates are always looking to you for guidance. It just comes with the territory. When a new situation unfolds, everyone will automatically turn in your direction to see how you will respond. Your “beta” flock members rely on you to lead them with wisdom, braveryContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Man(bird) Up”
Being Brave with Bruce: Stealth Box
There is a reason “earth tones” (like “olive,” for instance) are always in fashion. They go with everything. Everything goes with them. This makes olive just about the closest accessory you can have to an actual cloaking device. While classic olive all by itself is great, maybe you are a fashion-forward box turtle and soContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Stealth Box”
Resting in Place with Malti: Expect Good Things
When you are a small shelled being living in an interspecies flock, you learn to get good at reading the non-verbal signs. For example, let’s say your large shell-less assistant goes to the area where your tortoise carrier is kept. She gets it out and places it on the floor next to your small shriekingContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Expect Good Things”
Love & Feathers & Shells 