The young Rhino who refuses to heed Motherly Advice often has to learn those lessons from The World.
The World is happy to provide that education.
Monthly Archives: December 2016
Dear Santa
Rhinos don’t actually write request letters, it’s true.
But We can wish that We had more Sympathetic Understanding for those with whom We disagree. Any help We can get along those lines is welcome. If Santa has Fellow Feeling in a capsule, We’d like as much as can be spared.
In this holiday season and in the years to come, Rhinos aspire to Harmony when and where We can accomplish it.
Remorse
Everyone makes mistakes or embraces disappointment along Life’s Highway. Some of these encounters leave lasting scars, others heal in the fullness of time.
Every Rhino is shackled to troubling memories, and each memory has its own curious characteristics; no two regrets are the same. They come in different shapes and sizes, but they all know how to gnaw your ankles.
Ultimately, Rhinos can’t go back and fix things. It’s Too Bad.
an Original
Paul Klee (b.1879) was a Swiss Expressionist-Cubist-Surrealist, among other things.
Rhinos don’t have a lot to say about him, other than ‘Bravo’. That pretty much covers it.
following directions
So many directions, and so emphatic! Suggestions for limiting Rhino options to suit heaven-only-knows-who.
We are told these signs are provided to ensure Order. But that only works if critters wish to be orderly, which some must not.
Also, these directives would be more meaningful if We Rhinos could read.
Refinements re-refined
Jane Austen is celebrating her 241st birthday today. An insightful and witty author, detailing a society that Rhinos only vaguely understand. Life back then seems to have involved a range of social hurdles, establishing one’s eligibility for matrimony. Split an infinitive, and it was time to set sail for New Zealand.
Rhinos do not have mates for anything but mating, so the qualifying rounds are physical. Cut the mustard, deal with rivals, and We are ‘in business’. A less confusing and less time-consuming system.
Are Rhinos and YIR‘s Readers so very different? We may opine, but blush to publish an opinion…
His own vision
Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (b.1928) was an Austrian artist and architect with his own idiosyncratic recipe. He never met a straight line he liked. A wonderful appreciation of color and saturation, and a childlike delight in spontaneity. AND an early supporter of environmental protection.
What Rhino could resist a guy like that? Why would We try?
I’ll be seeing you…
Nostadamus, born 1503, is known for reading the future. Exactly how he managed it is muddled, and has been ever since he wrote The Prophecies. It was in French, which shows how clever he was.
Rhinos cannot foresee things particularly, but We are good at spotting trends. A few hints and We can tell the future pretty nicely. We can do the math of probabilities.
As shown, 1+1 is easy. When it’s 2+2 time (higher math) We get exhausted and have a wee nap. Then off to other business.
Fashun Tip
When accessorizing your Wednesday, go bold. That’s how Rhinos handle it, and it has worked for 50 million years in a Wide Assortment of Circumstances.
That said, Rhinos are seldom sure when Wednesday is.
Jamhuri Day
Today is the day when Kenya achieved autonomy from Great Britain in 1963. Shown is a Kikuyu Bantu festival outfit, one major tribe among many in Kenya.
Kenya has always been Kenya no matter what it was called and who was “in charge”. Humans have been there only 2 million years, while Rhinos have been there about 10. Today, Rhinos both Black and White still live there in the huge conservation parks. Sharing.
Happy Republic Day to one and all.
Your Inner Rhino 