When you are small and super-delicious, you can never have too many ferns. Ferns are so friendly. They are so multi-purpose. A fern can clean your air, purify your water, shade you, shelter you, even lift you up (literally). Ferns are nice and quiet, which means they make great neighbors. And they are very leafyContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Keep Your Ferns Close”
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Being Brave with Bruce: Food Chain Friends
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”
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”
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”
Being Brave with Bruce: Sharing Your Shell
When you’ve never known life without having a shell of your very own, it is hard to imagine what it might be like not to have one. Right from birth, your shell has been your refuge. It is there whenever you need it. Tired? Cold? Scared? Just sit down, pull in and your shell’s gotContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Sharing Your Shell”
Being Brave with Bruce: Love Lifts You Up
There is something to be said for being very short, silent and shelled. You can slip under the radar, so to speak. And when you have the good style sense to select a “survival-friendly” camouflaging shell color like, say, olive, this ability is amplified. Other beings – especially the very large, loud, shell-less ones -ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Love Lifts You Up”
Being Brave with Bruce: Showing Your Face
Being a low, slow shelled being in a fast high world is a tall order on the best of days. Which means it is an especially tall order these days. On the plus side, you have your handy box – right up on top of your own back – if you just want to curlContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Showing Your Face”
Being Brave with Bruce: Power Claws
Life is full of surprises. Some surprises are good – great, even. Some surprises are not so great. Some surprises are just terrible – wildly infectious and oh-so-confining – the exact opposite of what you ordered. When a surprise arrives that you really don’t like, then you need to know where to go to complain.ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Power Claws”
Being Brave with Bruce: Shades of Brave
If you are a being who has survived living in a hostile or scary or unsafe environment, other beings often label you as “brave.” And this is true. It takes a great deal of brave to survive losing your birth territory, being harassed by big hairy drooling fanged creatures, and getting passed from one homeContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Shades of Brave”
Being Brave with Bruce: Sunny Side Up
No matter how hard you try to avoid it, there may be days when you just wake up feeling like the sun isn’t shining inside you. It is behind the clouds somewhere. Or taking a break. Or maybe it went on vacation. While sometimes this feeling passes quite quickly, at other times it may linger.ContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Sunny Side Up”
Love & Feathers & Shells 