Today, in 1867, the Netherlands Red Cross came into being, helping those in need and a good thing for One and All. Congratulations, says Your Inner Rhino. Also, Thank You.
A YIR news flash: the Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by Mr. Earle Dickson, an affiliate of Johnson & Johnson Corporation. Mr. Dickson’s wife was accident-prone, and the Band-Aid answered her frequent mini-emergencies.
Here is today’s YIR Quiz! Is the plant on display 1) an Anyphosnic or 2) a Pnosimachy or 3) a Symphonica?
The answer is: Who cares? The flower is unto itself, a plant full of vitality, with charms, none of which require definition or description. Its Being is the issue, not how to capture it and confine its potential. We cannot own or limit it.
That’s how Rhinos see our own part in Nature’s scheme. As does the Ladybug.
Rhinos have often debated the meaning of Progress. Are We falling behind, or leaping ahead? Are We closer to Perfection, or perhaps falling short of the Ideal?
We have difficulty because We compare ourselves to a slithery idea, a memory, and try to see the state of things around Us as stable, which it isn’t.
Perhaps the concept of Progress is meaningless, an ideal which Rhinos cannot apply to our own brief lives.
Having a hanky is good if you plan to have ice cream on a warm day.
If you forget a hanky, you can always use a sleeve.
Rhinos are good at ‘alternative solutions’.
‘Gesundheit!’ say all Rhinos in the face of Major Sneezes.
You may have imagined that Rhinos are above such mundane exertions, but you would have been mistaken.
Health is a Rhino Priority.
On July 3, 1890, Idaho became the 43rd State of the United States. Congratulations!, say We.
Henry H. and Eliza H. Spalding had already (1836) introduced the Potato at Lapwai, in an effort to help the Nez Perce tribe with a viable crop. Idaho has many crops today, mainly grain, but somehow the Potato has held the spotlight.
Idaho has many National Parks, and a large part of the state is protected land. Rhinos are all for that way of thinking.
Interspecies Testing is often disappointing. When Humans ask Rhinos questions, the questions seek Human answers. If the roles were reversed, Human would be as nonplussed by the questions as We are.
One thing that Rhinos try to avoid is Random Mental Clutter (RMC). Presence of mind is a Rhino Essential, so trivia does not usually profit Us anything. We are Naturally informed.
When it comes to thoughts, We feel that less is more. Often.
Rhinos have not made many inroads in the field of Astro-Numerology. We are hampered by our inability to count beyond 3, which puts a damper on it all.
What We like is all the starry trappings that go with Astro-Numerology, at least as Rhinos imagine it. Much whooshing and ba-booming, and twinkles and starbursts.
Ultimately, the idea of decrypting the Future is not Very Rhino. We have all We can manage in the Present.
Rhinos do not intentionally Lurk.
But sometimes it just comes out that way.
Exactly where our Rhino is headed, either on foot or by conjecture, It is not YIR’s focus today.
What Rhinos must grasp, in the Wild or in Captivity, is that wherever We go, there We are.
That’s just how it is.
Your Inner Rhino 