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A rose is a rose…

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is a rose. Not surprisingly, the same thing is true for watermelons. Clearly. This is what is known as Common Sense, information on which everyone agrees.

8-9 Knowing Stuff

We would point out that most Common Sense proceeds without investigation or conscious attention. We just know things and leave them to their own devices. Why fuss?

Every now and again Rhinos like to review the elements of what is commonly known, just to see if things have changed. They almost invariably have. Then uncommon knowledge is factored into the mix.

We are brilliant.

Aaaaaand We’re off!

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8-1 Liminality

After We get to be two, or maybe some other age, We commence with adolescence. It depends on the individual.

Everything inside gets rearranged to accommodate how big We are getting on the outside, or vice versa. Anyhow, things are a mess for a while, but one day, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, here We are in all our Individuality. We were that and now We’re this! Hooray! Rhinodom resonates with the news!

Often this is a point where Mom discovers she is going to have another baby. She has usually had enough fun with the newly-improved offspring, and that youngster is encouraged to hit the Road of Life’s Independent Adventures.

And off We go, as ready as We’ll ever be, to find out what’s what! Hooray, some more!

                          For more on this topic, see the post for November 10, 2014

Here today, Gone tomorrow

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7-31 SayWhuuut?

Some Rhinos have more on the ball than others. That is how it is. If every Rhino were the cleverest one, the situation would probably be exhausting. We say ‘probably’ because We have never tried it.

What is surprising is that there is never a status quo. One day We wake up in a fog, then, out of the blue, We get a Message, and our Insides go into gear, all cylinders firing, lights flashing and rumbling ahead. Over there, another Rhino has gone into a temporary state of mental short circuitry, no matter how clever our yesterday may have seemed.

Each of Us has plenty of potential, but it’s expression comes and goes in unexpected rhythmic curves. Neat.

How dull would it be if these curves were predictable?

 

High Seas

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7-28 Afloat

Now and then Rhinos like to pretend that We are in our rational minds. The idea is touching, but hard to prove when We see ourselves in action. Often We are on our way, long before We have a clear destination.

In point of fact, what motivates Us is a roiling sea of emotions, churning away just below the surface. We row this way and that, but the tides are calling the shots currently (heh,heh: nautical humor).

Consequently We make up Reasons for what We’ve done and why. Keeps Us imaginative, just creating justifications and probable scenarios to explain how oddly We behave. There’s a lot going on inside that gets expressed, ‘understand’ it or not.

Just take a look at History to confirm our contention.

Somewhere in there…

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7-25 RadishLore

Just Where is your Inner Rhino, you may well ask. We are not much more clear on that topic than you are, but We have a lot more lore than you, leastways as pertains to your Inner Radish.

A lesser-known (but no less crucial) bodily organ is the Radish, which is not attached to anything in particular inside you. We think of it as being near your funny bone, but that location varies from one critter to another. For all We really know, the Radish may shift around in there, driven by its own mysterious imperatives. (We cannot interview the Inner Radish, any more than you could get a good chat out of your pancreas, and that’s easier to locate.)

Rhinos often discuss the Radish in familiar terms, seeing it as a receptive nook for our True Selves. We can always visit it when We feel down, and get a booster shot of Rhino. Who can contemplate the Radish and not get a worthy chortle out of it? Right: Nobody. Whoosh! Back in business.

If you like, go back to March 18 to refresh your Radish Appreciation.

Musings

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7-24 Notions

It’s busy inside Us, our Rhino Inner Rhino. So many intentions, conjectures, beliefs, theories, as well as foggy ideas, waiting for clarification. Some stand out, some others remain in the background, waiting to serve. It’s a crowd.

Wondering what will take focus in any given moment is stimulating. Sometimes ideas team up, sometimes one claims our full attention. Now and again they all take a break and let Us ponder what lies before Us.

And all of this goes on while We seek something to chew on. Rhinos are born to multi-task.

Perfection!!

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7-22 Ideal!

Here is some Serious Nonsense: We could be perfect if only We attended to some flaw, selected almost at random from a list made up by people We don’t even know. Then everyone would adore Us, right? Shower Us with things We don’t need and can’t even eat!

Wake up call! Ring, ring! It’s for Us!

Nature has made Us perfect from the get-go. We don’t need to strive for anything that isn’t already in the package when We shoot down the tube! We are Nature’s darlings, and are here to celebrate our Inner Rhino, not to wish We were somebody else. Who We are is as grand as anything gets, and just as perfect.

Perfectionism… get real. Oh, yeah… and happy.

Hurlyburly

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7-21 The Unpredictable

RhinoResearch indicates that Nature thrives in the face of Chaos. Things are never just one way; they usually go in both directions, wherever they are headed. Coming and Going, as well as Side-stepping. More and less, all at once.

We wonder if perhaps those critters that like Order may have landed on the wrong planet. Perhaps there is another place where things are shipshape, but obviously it’s not here.

RhinoTheories of Extinction have to do with the inability to go with the flow, or flows. Digging in one’s heels and dictating how things must be does not appear to impress Nature, and why would it? Rhinos prefer to welcome each impact, and see where it rocks or rolls Us. Even in Sumatra. Or especially in Sumatra.

Stubborn is not only Unattractive, but often disastrously Unrealistic.

Investigations

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7-20 DoorsGalore

Each of Us has a key, or possibly is a key, but locating the lock where the key works requires Determination, (which is a Rhino specialty). We are lucky that way.

We proceed from situation to situation until We find ourselves in a promising spot. The key works like gang-busters, and We trot through that door! Things feel sort of triumphant. Ta Daaah! Arrived!

The part they don’t tell you is that each door opens onto another series of opportunities, each keyhole different. Again. Corridors and tiers of options. Gotta keep plugging.

In some metaphorical version of Life, that’s what it’s all about. At least for Us. Our Inner Rhino is complex, more about discovery than congratulations.