Being born with a shell on your back means you get used to shells fairly early in life. Like right on Day One. Unfortunately, the same can’t always be said for everyone else. It isn’t your fault your shell is really cute. Or curved. Or colorful. You can’t help it if it came fully loadedContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Little Tortoise People”
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Interspecies Flock Life with Shannon: the Good of the Whole
Being a flock mama means getting used to seeking the good of the whole. Here, it doesn’t actually matter what species your VIP clients happen to be. Your own species, a different species, all sorts of species – the common denominator is that their needs, preferences and wants always comes first. Let’s say one ofContinueContinue reading “Interspecies Flock Life with Shannon: the Good of the Whole”
Resting in Place with Malti: Turtle Cuddles
Daily life in an interspecies flock takes on an especially interesting dimension when most of your flock are introverts. It can sometimes feel like you spend most of your time competing to see how far away from each other you can get. But just because you like your alone-time (whether “in shell” or “out ofContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Turtle Cuddles”
Happy Day O’ Treats From Our Flock to Yours!
Living in an interspecies flock pretty much guarantees you will run across some customs that seem more than a little (or a lot) strange. Take “Halloween,” for example. This event appears to happen in phases. During the “Disguise Phase,” the large featherless / shell-less beings all pretend to be somebody else. Whoever does the bestContinueContinue reading “Happy Day O’ Treats From Our Flock to Yours!”
Resting in Place with Malti: Champion Rester
From the outside looking in, resting looks so easy. Like anyone could do it. But you know what they say about those who make something look easy. They are the pros. A champion rester will never let on all the heavy lifting and hard work that goes on “behind the scenes,” so to speak, ofContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Champion Rester”
Resting in Place with Malti: Stand Up Tall
When you are lucky enough to be born with four short legs (instead of, say, two tall legs), you master “walking” pretty much right away. Before you’ve even hardly exited your small round white escape pod, you are walking like a pro. Go you! But “standing,” well, that is another matter. Maybe you don’t wantContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Stand Up Tall”
Resting in Place with Malti: Have a Berry Good Day
Not every day is going to deliver sunshine and smiles perfectly on command. Sometimes you just have to make your own. Here, it helps to have a list of your favorite things handy. Reason being, if you don’t know what makes you happy, it is harder to turn your frowns upside down. It is alsoContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Have a Berry Good Day”
Resting in Place with Malti: More Alike Than Different
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”
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”
Love & Feathers & Shells 