In the Pantry of Character Traits some things are more generously supplied than others.
For instance, We Rhinos are always running short on Patience.
Category Archives: R Life Lessons
Entrepreneurship
There are conspicuously few Rhino Commercial Enterprises, mostly because We cannot make change. It may seem an incidental aspect of the profit mechanism, but believe Us, it is Prohibitive.
Ask anybody.
One for you, and one for me…
Trying to be Good is not easy, especially when it comes to Sharing. We like it when somebody shares with Us, but sharing in the other direction is a Challenge.
Sometimes We are successful with Sharing, but that is better than Never, right?
Maybe if they made pies a lot bigger, Sharing would be easier.
Rhinopinions
Rhinos acquire Opinions; We spend so much time musing over Life’s Little Ways that We form conclusions and insights. There is little quality control on our thinking, We admit. Many ideas are reflections of traditions or concepts We have overheard. Opinions can last a long time, however you measure it.
What is remarkable about Opinions is how little they matter when confronting anything big in our lives. Minor things can be influenced by attitude based on Opinion. But major crises occur in a different sphere. They do not require anything but sober acknowledgement, as part of a larger scheme, where our judgments are of no interest whatever.
We are constrained by our Opinions. With time they can form Us, rather than We forming them.
Baked Goods
We have been thinking of old cronies and pals and family members. And We thought, what if each friend was like an ingredient in a cake, and We are the cake, enjoying the riches each friend had bestowed on Us. We are flavored by all those remarkable interactions, longterm or brief, each with its own distinct flavor.
We are born dynamic with Inner Rhinotude, but We are enhanced along the way by experience and good friendship.
Fitting in
True, it takes some Optimism (and some Patience) to see how things come together. Still, they do, no matter what We had planned.
When We get willing to go with what is, rather than how We imagined it would be, We come out with something pretty satisfying, all the same.
Puzzling, yes?
Ujung Kulon or bust
Here you see a Javan Rhino, moving hastily though the brush. This branch of the family is at an existential crossroads, and things do not look promising.
Closely related to the Indian One-horn Rhino branch, the remnants of our line live in the tropical jungles of Java. Our range used to be all over Southeast Asia, but no longer. We have interesting skin, pebbly but not as knobby as our Indian cousins. How did We get to Java?, you might ask. In times past, the ocean level was lower, so We could stroll. Rhinos are accomplished strollers. (see 4/11/15)
Many female Javan Rhinos don’t grow a horn at all. Nature might give a convincing explanation of why that is, but not We.
For obvious reasons, Javan Rhinos are extremely leery of contact with the public.
Down Sumatra Way
It has come to our attention that Your Inner Rhino has not been very clear about what parts of the greater Rhino Family are presently represented on the planet. Seems obvious as a topic, but it does not hold our attention to any great extent; We are all Rhinos, We have RhinoHeart, and that’s what counts.
That Said, here you go! Here We have a Sumatran Rhino, the hairiest of the Gang. We live in Southeast Asia, mostly solitary and living in dense jungle. We can weigh a ton, but are the smallest Rhino species. We are surprisingly agile, and are known for a sharp sense of humor. Two horns, but modest.
We are the most ancient lineage of the RFamily living today. We are few in numbers, due to hunting and habitat pressures.
The reason this all seems a bit beside the point is that each Rhino, Sumatran or not, is an individual critter, doing our best to thrive. Seems more important than a label, at least to Us.
Obon
Today begins the Festival of Obon, a Buddhist recognition of ancestry, honoring family members gone before.
We at Your Inner Rhino are keenly aware of our own heritage, and think it is a good thing to set aside time to be grateful.
We are reposting a picture from October 22, 2014, just to remind you of how many Rhino family members there are, millions and millions and millions of years worth. No member of the family makes, or has made, a lesser contribution than another. Each of Us is a novel version of a long chain of predecessors.
Rhinos are lucky indeed. And grateful.
Glad Tidings
Sand castles are mighty fine, and Rhinos greatly enjoy architecting them. Add a spire here, a drawbridge there, and moat yourself silly. What can hold Us back?
The precluding issue might be that We do not live near the sea, most of Us. So We have to do our sand-castling in theory, rather than sand itself. We are not daunted however; We just proceed.
Piddling limitations do not affect Rhino Good Times.
Your Inner Rhino 