On the Same Wavelength

8-2 GalleryMusings

There are many Languages available, here and there. Urdu, English, or Swahili, what the speaker means and what the audience hears are unpredictable. Each speaker has personal thoughts that shape speech, and each listener has individual baggage skewing reception. Rhinos are often struck with how mixed up messages seem to get.

And there is communication without words of any kind, like Art. Even there, confusions exist between the artist and the viewer. You can read somebody’s explanation, but it never captures the essence of a painting, or sculpture, or drama, or song. We respond with some other part of Us; Art is an experience. That said, each of Us may respond differently at different stages of ourselves.

Rhinos don’t speak much at all. We communicate with some sounds, but mostly by scent. We heartily recommend it as a system.

Aaaaaand We’re off!

8-1 Liminality

After We get to be two, or maybe some other age, We commence with adolescence. It depends on the individual.

Everything inside gets rearranged to accommodate how big We are getting on the outside, or vice versa. Anyhow, things are a mess for a while, but one day, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, here We are in all our Individuality. We were that and now We’re this! Hooray! Rhinodom resonates with the news!

Often this is a point where Mom discovers she is going to have another baby. She has usually had enough fun with the newly-improved offspring, and that youngster is encouraged to hit the Road of Life’s Independent Adventures.

And off We go, as ready as We’ll ever be, to find out what’s what! Hooray, some more!

                          For more on this topic, see the post for November 10, 2014