Whatever trying events may have occurred this year, whatever misgivings one may have about the coming year, Rhinos feel it is best to greet the event with bells on.
Whatever, is what We say.
Category Archives: R Life Lessons
Data Transfer
Rhinos simply do not speak Mongoose, try as We may.
Lesson: We can’t have it all.
Loose Lips
There are so many voices chattering away inside the Rhino Mind, that it can make Us queasy.
The Best Solution to this condition is to try to Shut Up our own inner dialog and actually Listen to Nature. Nature does not require evaluation or response.
It is surprising how therapeutic this non-activity can be.
Pupils’ Alternatives
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.
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.
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…
Ingestmentation
Many critters just eat, or so it appears to Us.
We Rhinos, on the other hand, have made an Art Form of Dining, a gustatory approach and technique of chewing, salivating, grinding and ingestion that would be the envy of any connoisseur, whatever the area of discerning application.
We honor our meals with our undivided attentions, unless We have things on our minds, which does happen. Then We have to split the difference.
Strikes!
Now and then Rhinos are simply knocked sideways by Affection. Something sets Us off, and We appreciate the critters around Us, Rhino or not, here or there or now or then.
And in those moments, We realize We could have been feeling that way all along.
Marvelous.
Naughtiness’ Reward
The fellow in the picture is the Krampus, a Bad Behavior Expert. He spends his time locating erring Bavarian children, and then either sweeps them away, or thrashes them with his birch switch. He deals with the Naughty, while St. Nicholas treats the Virtuous.
This is Krampusnacht, his night for delivering Correction. Sensible children quake.
His mission might also recommend improvement for our Readers- any who are tempted to stray, if such there be.
Your Inner Rhino 