When you are a young feathered being raised in an interspecies flock, you may at first struggle to grasp and claim your rightful place in the flock pecking order. After all, the ones without feathers are undeniably larger than you are in every way. Plus they act like they know better than you do about when and howContinueContinue reading “Janie Jeness Post: How an Alpha Gets Born”
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Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Fluffy With a Side of Feathers
Spend much time in an interspecies flock and you will quickly notice something odd about your large featherless flock mates. They have a fascination with something called “the weather forecast.” Take your large featherless assistant, for instance. Hot, cold, sunny, not sunny, dark, light, windy, not windy – it is all equally interesting if youContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Fluffy With a Side of Feathers”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Reaching New Heights
There is nothing more frustrating than receiving a fresh set of new challenges when you ordered “millet with a side of waffles” and a “single and seeking” ladybird to share it with. Clearly, your large featherless waitress has mixed up your order yet again. To make matters worse, now the challenges have decided you lookContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Reaching New Heights”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Good Reason to Stretch
“Stretching” is under-rated. Sometimes it can seem like if something doesn’t just come to you effortlessly, it isn’t meant for you. But when you are born as a small and delicious prey species, you know the predators don’t see it that way. Anything as tasty as you is worth stretching for! And so you alsoContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Good Reason to Stretch”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: the Kitchen Cockatiel
When you are small and round and covered in downy feathers, other beings may not automatically assume you know your way around a kitchen. They won’t look at you and instantly think you have the keenest and most sensitive of gourmet palates. And most won’t ever change their mind about this, either. But you don’tContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: the Kitchen Cockatiel”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: The Brave and the Fluffy
Even if you have downy soft fluffy feathers completely covering your body and can “cuteness stun” potential predators like nobody’s business, you still never know what a day may bring. So you have to bring both. The brave and the fluffy. This way, if you try “fluffy” and it doesn’t work, you still have “brave.”ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: The Brave and the Fluffy”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Getting Creative
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”
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”
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”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Keep Calm and Molt On
Being born with feathers automatically makes you very brave. Need proof? You just keep waking up every morning. You don’t know what you will find. Maybe for 21 straight years full of months and days, everything has been just fine. But that doesn’t mean it always will be. One morning, you might wake up toContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Keep Calm and Molt On”
Love & Feathers & Shells 