Regardless of your ranking in the greater food chain o’ life, it can be a full time job to figure out the difference between friends, enemies and frenemies. In other words, some beings always want to eat you. Some never do. And some are only interested if someone tastier isn’t available. When in doubt -ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Food Chain Friends”
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Resting in Place with Malti: Have a Soak and a Smile
Life may not always follow your instructions. In fact, lately, it can often seem like life’s scheduling coordinator is a day late and a dollar short. Or maybe a hundred dollars short. Sheesh. But the good news is, even if life’s plans make no sense, you don’t have to let it get to you. YouContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Have a Soak and a Smile”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Big Pancake Day
It is hard to keep a big-picture perspective sometimes. Especially when you wake up one day and discover you just got a heaping helping of very bad things delivered right to your doorstep. In times like these, it isn’t much comfort to know that everyone else got the same (awful, infectious, unwelcome) delivery. You justContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Big Pancake Day”
Being Brave with Bruce: Cuteness Contest
It doesn’t take much time living in an interspecies flock to notice that beings without shells tend to be a restless lot. While you and your small shelled red-dotted sister are chill as can be, the same can’t be said for your small loud feathery brother or your large shell-less rescue mama. Talk about over-thinkingContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Cuteness Contest”
Resting in Place with Malti: Laying Low
Some days you may wake up and feel like the whole world is just spinning. (And in fact, the whole world actually is spinning – once per day like clockwork.) But spinning has never worked that well for you. It just isn’t your jam. You prefer to take life at a more leisurely pace…stopping toContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Laying Low”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Nap Fiercely
Just as the small round blue and green planet you share with so many other beings has seasons, you also have seasons. It could even be said that “seasons happen.” Some seasons are cold and others are hot. Some seasons are long and some are short. Some seasons are for growing and some are forContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Nap Fiercely”
Resting in Place with Malti: Someone Who Cares
When you are born wearing a (cute, curved, fashion-forward) shell on your back, other beings may automatically assume you are self-contained. As a matter of fact, you are self-contained. At least in the sense that you can fit all of your self into your shell any time you want to. And sure, you enjoy yourContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Someone Who Cares”
Resting in Place with Malti: Hunting Cactus
No being starts out being a great hunter. Right at the beginning, you are awful. You do as you think a hunter should do even though you have never hunted anything before in your life. You skulk, scope and stalk like a pro (you think), not realizing the prey can see (and hear!) you comingContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Hunting Cactus”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Using Your Voice
When you are a very small feathered being in a very big world, sometimes you may feel like you struggle to be heard. Sure, you have a strident (resonant) shriek. But then again, so do the enormous h.a.w.k.s. from one tree over. Still, you have things to say. Important things. Things other beings need toContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Using Your Voice”
Being Brave with Bruce: Home Together
It is true that beings with shells tend to be homebodies. And thank goodness for it, when you are (quite literally) appetizer-sized and every other being around you is keen for their three squares a day just like you are. In other words, in a big, wild, hungry world, it can make smart survival senseContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Home Together”
Love & Feathers & Shells 