Each of Us likes to be prepared for the day, whatever it brings. We imagine a menu of Possibilities, though those imaginings usually turn out to be beside the point. In the end, We have been provided for by Nature.
The Good Part of mentally equipping ourselves is that it gets the first foot into gear, primes our pump. Then We are on our way. Vroom.
Feeling jolly makes the ideal send-off.
Your Inner Rhino wishes all you birthday-tators a fine celebration, plus cake!
This notion has lots to recommend it, except likelihood.
Hornpipes on the quarterdeck at ten bells. Or something.
Today’s is the 300th post on Your Inner Rhino. A minor accomplishment perhaps, but our own.
We preen, in moderation. That is the Rhino Way. Subtle.
Rhino Moms are attentive to their Tots. So extremely attentive are they, that their Tots often feel the Free Will Statutes have been revoked, at least in their individual case.
At times such as these Tots haul out their Marionette Imitations, to entertain their Moms, who occasionally get the point, and lighten up.
Serenity is not always easy. Rhinos embody Poise naturally, it’s true, but there are moments when We are seized by an irrepressible need to giggle or guffaw. Out of nowhere comes a burst of mirth which will not be denied. Contrary to good taste and self-possession, We are reduced to giggling.
Heaven knows, Rhinos understand decorum. Unfortunately, the more Serious and Important the occasion, the greater the hazard factor. We wrestle, We quake, We repress, but no, the cork flies out of the bottle!
We fizz.
Your Inner Rhino wishes you a fine celebration of yourself, this month and every month. Yes, We do.
We make what contribution We can to your festivities, however unusual some of them may seem to Us. Here follows a sample effort:
The average Inner Rhino Reader
Does not own a parakeet-r,
To this blog a hot stampeder,
Trembling, sweating and weak-kneeder,
Rejoicing in its pedigreed-r
Your Inner Rhino can’t be beat-r.
Your Inner Rhino 