There are times when unfolding events on this small round blue and green planet can feel really stressful. Oh so stressful. The news about, well, basically everything, sounds so grim. There are micro-particles on the loose everywhere and they aren’t very friendly. Even worse, the latest fashion trend sweeping the ranks of your large shell-lessContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: What the World Needs Now”
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Being Brave with Bruce: What Box Turtle?
“Extreme cuteness.” In some scenarios, it can be such a blessing. Then again, there are those other scenarios. Truth be told, you don’t pop right out of your round white escape hatch knowing how to dial down the cuteness when the situation calls for it. To that point, you also don’t know which situations mightContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: What Box Turtle?”
Being Brave with Bruce: Stealth Box
There is a reason “earth tones” (like “olive,” for instance) are always in fashion. They go with everything. Everything goes with them. This makes olive just about the closest accessory you can have to an actual cloaking device. While classic olive all by itself is great, maybe you are a fashion-forward box turtle and soContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Stealth Box”
Being Brave with Bruce: Keep Your Ferns Close
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
Being Brave with Bruce: Mountain Climbing
Sometimes you might wake up and be really in the mood to do some mountain climbing. You are full of vim and vigor. Bring it on! You were born to summit. But then again, a mountain might arrive at just the wrong moment – such as during your winter brumation or when you are inContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Mountain Climbing”
Love & Feathers & Shells 