When you are born with a completely secure mobile home perched right on top of your own four legs, it is pretty hard to imagine life without it. That handy box helps you avoid oh so many of life’s perils, from awkward social exchanges to being plated and served. But sometimes your box can getContinueContinue reading “Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Making Contact”
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Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Ferns Are Friends
Ferns are friends. They are so gentle. So welcoming. So multi-purpose. If a single and seeking eligible lady box turtle happens along, their vibrant green colors can set off your bright orange cheek patches and whirling red eyes to perfection! On the other hand, if you have a visitor and they start to look hungry,ContinueContinue reading “Bruce the Rescued Box Turtle: Ferns Are Friends”
Being Brave with Bruce: Looking Up
Low to the ground is a very interesting place to live. There is so much to see and do! When you keep your eyes on the ground, you will be the first to spot that plump and perfectly slow escargot arriving just in time for your noon repast. Fixing your eyes on the low horizonContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Looking Up”
Being Brave with Bruce: Looking Up
Spend enough time as a participating member in the food chain o’ life and you will find plenty of reasons to keep your eyes on the ground and your business to yourself. In other words, if no one knows you and no one sees you, no one can eat you. But that kind of lifeContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Looking Up”
Being Brave with Bruce: All That You Are
Just being born with a hard outer shell automatically means you are brave. After all, you wouldn’t come with extra built-in body armor if you didn’t need it! But not being covered in something warmer, cuddlier, often means that other beings miss perceiving the softer side of you. In other words, all they see ofContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: All That You Are”
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”
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”
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”
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”
Being Brave with Bruce: the Many Faces of Brave
It is easy to think of “brave” as being only when you are presenting your full-on, nostrils-first, wide-eyed, out-in-the-open self to the world. To face the scary things. To stare down the pack of slavering challenges staring back. But the truth is, brave doesn’t have just one face. Sometimes the bravest thing you can doContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: the Many Faces of Brave”
Love & Feathers & Shells 