It is easy to get hung up on outer appearances. Maybe you have a shell and your brother has feathers and your mama has neither. And in your little flock, you are evenly split down the middle when it comes to blood temperature. At first, these differences can be disconcerting. It can be easy toContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: More Alike Than Different”
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Resting in Place with Malti: the Big Chill
Even when you seem to be moving very slowly on the outside, life can still feel pretty hectic on the inside. So much change, so little time to adapt to it. In these sorts of situations, matching your insides to your outsides can take some doing. It can feel tempting to try to speed upContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: the Big Chill”
Resting in Place with Malti: Shell Deep
When you are born with a shell on your back (and your front, for that matter) that is often all other beings see when they look at you. To them, you look like a rock on legs. (Although to be fair, to some of them you also look like a tasty rock on legs.) ButContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Shell Deep”
Resting in Place with Malti: the Friends We Make
There is a reason there are so many beings on this small round blue and green planet. This way, everybody can have a friend. Not all beings are destined to get along. Some are just too hungry – every friend they meet turns into room service. Some are too sleepy – you start the meet-and-greetContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: the Friends We Make”
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”
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”
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?”
Resting in Place with Malti: A Little Love Goes a Long Way
When you are born slow and low to the ground, you are easy to miss. This can sometimes be a good thing. Since the majority of the other rungs on the food chain o’ life are occupied by beings who are taller than you, you can more easily fly (well, crawl) under the radar whenContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: A Little Love Goes a Long Way”
Resting in Place with Malti: N-Okay Days
Some days, life is a-okay. The papaya is flowing. The water is so crisp and refreshing it tastes like a whole school of (Grandma’s organic steamed) salmon just swam through it. All is well. Then there are other days. You know the ones. The n-okay days. When one of those power-hungry, time-stealing, soul-sucking n-okay daysContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: N-Okay Days”
Resting in Place with Malti: Love Is In the Air
Sometimes you just know love is in the air. Reason being, you can smell it. It smells so fragrant. The scent is so divine you can almost taste it. You feel so strongly that you are loved – just as you are, for who you are. You know deep within that you are a lovingContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Love Is In the Air”
Love & Feathers & Shells 