There are all kinds of reasons it makes smart sense to live in an interspecies flock. For instance, by surrounding yourself by unfamiliar customs and cultures, you can keep your neural connections young and sharp. When your flock includes cold-blooded beings (such as yourself) and also warm-blooded beings (such as your furry bestie and yourContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: a Grandma and Her Girl”
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Resting in Place with Malti: Planet Saving Cuteness
It doesn’t take long after exiting your small round white escape pod before you will realize you share your planet with a vast variety of other beings of all shapes, sizes and dispositions. Some like to eat tasty green things like you do. And some like to eat….you. However, just because a being is veryContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Planet Saving Cuteness”
Resting in Place with Malti: Expect Good Things
When you are a small shelled being living in an interspecies flock, you learn to get good at reading the non-verbal signs. For example, let’s say your large shell-less assistant goes to the area where your tortoise carrier is kept. She gets it out and places it on the floor next to your small shriekingContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Expect Good Things”
Resting in Place with Malti: Brown Is for Besties
Sometimes you meet someone and you just know. You are going to be best friends forever. It might be the look in their eyes. Or the way they like the same exact same types of treats you do. It could be how they watch over you when you are out browsing around on the lawnContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Brown Is for Besties”
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”
Resting in Place with Malti: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
It doesn’t take much time cohabitating with an interspecies flock to notice there is one activity that is always at the bottom of everyone’s list. Waiting. No one likes it. It is annoying. Worse – it is boring. This is especially true for some of your flockmates (who may or may not have feathers andContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait”
Resting in Place with Malti: Mud Rings
If there is one thing you learn quickly when living in an interspecies flock, it is that other species can have some pretty strange hobbies. Take the large shell-less species, for instance. “Getting dark” is clearly the universal symbol for “it’s bedtime already.” Yet when it gets dark outside, they like to stay awake andContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Mud Rings”
Resting in Place with Malti: Soak Your Troubles Away
Evolutionarily speaking, it is easy to explain why nearly all beings – regardless of species – seem to so enjoy a good soak. Primordial soup. Soaking is so relaxing. You can just settle in. Take a load off. Luxuriate. But where in the past you had to share the soup pot (so to speak) withContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Soak Your Troubles Away”
Resting in Place with Malti: Dining In
After a long day, there is no doubt it can be nice to do something called “dining out.” In this scenario, all you have to do is get yourself to the table and chew. Another being does the rest of the heavy lifting (not to mention the scrubbing and rinsing). But then a bunch ofContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Dining In”
Resting in Place with Malti: FaceTime with Friends
Life with an interspecies flock means you always have something to learn….and you also always have something to teach. For example, you may notice that occasionally your large shell-less flock mates do come up with a good idea. Take “FaceTime,” for instance. The concept is sound. You have a face and you want to talkContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: FaceTime with Friends”
Love & Feathers & Shells 