Today Your Inner Rhino salutes Marcel Marceau (b.1922), a famous French mime. His focus was the universal truths of life, illustrated with stylish insight, without Words.
Perhaps Words are fine and useful things, though Rhinos don’t use many of them. We can “read” mime far better than a slathering of words showering down around Us. A telling glance tells Us more, every time.
Shhhhhhhh.
Any Rhino could tell you that a Best First Step is to have two Rhinos for parents. No matter how friendly some other sort of critter may be, Limits are in place. That is the way Nature plans it, and it is foolish to fly in the face of Nature.
Who knows what all might happen?
You’re welcome.
Whatever Cleanliness is good for, It is not Natural. Rhinos are blessed with many scents and cosmetic features (like mud and dust) which define Us among our peers.
We stand by our Texture, which is how We define our distinctive self expression. All Rhino, no two alike.
Thank you, but no thank you, on the Soap.
Sunday, March 4th is National Poundcake Day, a day for Ingestion and Contemplation with Us Rhinos. We usually concentrate more on the former than the latter. For Good Reason.
We are Big Critters and must keep ourselves fueled up. For Us, Bulk is a necessity, a daily responsibility. We shoulder this care, and forge ahead, heads high, chewing.
Rhinos take things as they come. Darn tootin’.
Richard Steele and Joseph Addison created a London daily paper called The Spectator, starting in 1711. It was full of opinion, poetry, and articles to appeal to a general audience. There was much discussion of modes, manners and morals. The tone of the articles was friendly and persuasive, influential to this day in journalistic circles.
Rhinos appreciate every effort to improve behavior, round and about. And at that time, very much like this, there was plenty to improve. Ask anybody.
Must admit, those folk sure knew how to style a wig!
Rhinos have extraordinary Vision. True. But We do not have one version, We have several sorts. They are:
A) Normal Day Vision, when We tune it in, which We don’t do all the time. Color. B) Colorless Vision, useful most of the time. That way, We don’t fatigue our eyes. C) Night Vision, because We are out and about at all hours, hunting and gathering. D) Scent-o-Vision, which is how things Resonate. It is so similar to Rhino Dream Vision, that We skipped further differentiation.
Are Rhinos lucky, or What?!?
At Your Inner Rhino We sometimes get a letter asking for fodder recommendations. Sadly, We Rhinos judge each plant on its dietary merits in the specific moment. What smells ideal today may be losing its gusto by morning.
Also, We don’t have names for plants as our Readers do. We know our endlessly varied local vegetation by scent, and are sensitive to nuance, nasally speaking.
Keep sniffing; it just takes practice.
Rhinos do not have intricate machinery like this, partly because We don’t own Anything, and more to the point, because We don’t need it.
Rhinos are blessed with a wonderful set of teeth, big and ready for action. We just pop some greens into our mouths, work our jaws a bit, and Hey Presto!: coleslaw!
It’s a Brilliant System, for which all Rhinos are profoundly grateful.
Rhinos do not shop as our Readers do. Rhinos go from here to there, selecting and devouring whatever vegetation looks promising at the moment. We have a wide variety of plants that go down with ease. Healthy appetite, healthy digestion.
One thing about our Produce: it’s always fresh. And in season.
Rhinos try to observe the niceties of Social Interaction wherever possible. On the field, at the waterhole, We play by the Rules.
One such rule is: No Rhino ever interrupts a Compliment. It simply isn’t done.
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