Wishing all our readers a safe and merry July 4.

xox,

Your Inner Rhino

Although many Rhinos do not engage in Interpretive Dance, there are some of Us who like to express ourselves in that way. Artists, if you like.

What any specific dance may mean, nobody needs to know. We Rhinos know Art when We see it, usually.

Some other critters are envious, but We console them with words like these, “Cheer up! You have a very nice trunk there; be merry.”

Rhinos like to stop now and again to assess our situation, whatever it may be.

It is usually time well spent.

We find that moment refreshing.

It’s that time of year when things get a trifle muddy and what’s-going-on? The Staff here is all gearing up for holidays and organized foolishness, and uniting the team for publishing is uphill work.

SO, rather than pretend all is on track, We wanted to say, We will get reassembled and shipshape, but probably not in any exemplary way. And when is TBA. Doubtless sooner than later.

Please keep the faith…

On June 29, 1613 the Globe Playhouse went up in smoke. A sound effect for the production required a cannon, but a spark got loose, and within an hour or so, there was a heap of ash and rubble where the theatre had been.

On the happy side, nobody was hurt. However, one audience member’s pants caught on fire. He was saved by a local who doused the flames with beer.

There’s no business like show business!

Rhinos find it difficult to accept that We are not designed for every piece of Playground Equipment.

What We learn on Nature’s Playground most often involves the dynamics of Gravity.

Rhinos mostly speak English better than ancient Assyrian, but the fact is We don’t speak either one most of the time. We have ourselves streamlined down to grunts, which covers most of our R Needs.

The Assyrians got organized 4,000 years ago, which is a lot of Time. Other civilizations were getting focused too. What is interesting to Us Rhinos is that the things they thought then have carried themselves through the ages; We still feel their influence in every idea We get. We may not speak Assyrian, but We know a lot about Thinking Assyrian, like it or not.

We are thinking it may be time to rethink things a bit, if that is possible. Sounds easier than it would be. Those Assyrians were no dummies. Can We say the same of ourselves?

Today is National Coconut Day. Let all of you who live near a Coconut plant rejoice and wallow in the magnificence of this fruit. The rest of Us will go find a Coconut at the store, or wallow in envy.

Coconuts have many virtues, but Rhinos find them a challenge. We shake them, and learn things are going on inside there, but We seldom enjoy whatever it is. Coconuts are very tough. So tough as to qualify as impregnable. Effort is not enough to crack the mystery and We must resort to guile and low cunning.

Rhinos have low cunning, but it is not well organized. Usually the Coconut wins the day.

Archimedes was a Greek who applied his mathematical wizardry to practical issues in all sorts of ways. (Feel free to look those up.) Thus We may think of him as an Engineer, and why not?

Rhinos do not specialize in areas like math or physics or sciences involving numbers and concentration. We are all for these studies, but do not gravitate toward them ourselves. We lack the necessary sense of mystery.

Also, Rhinos do not engage with things like plants, hoping to modify or coerce them into any theory that does not involve immediate consumption. Shortsighted perhaps….. but practical.

One part of the Rhino Solution is a sunny disposition and the other part is floribunda florabunding.

Rhinos are Floribunders, from waaay back.