Category Archives: R Mindset

Hit Parade of History

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Of the 100 hottest accomplishments of history, Cai Lun (also Ts’ai Lun) is noteworthy for inventing Paper as we know it today. He created a sludge from bark, hemp, and rags, ground it fine, and then spread out this gruel to dry, thus forming paper. Lightweight and durable. With some improvements, it is still made as it was in 105 AD, China.

Rhinos do not use paper, almost ever. But for YIR Readers it is common stuff all around the World. Before electronic communication, it was all there was.

Cai Lun ranks #7 in Important Figures of History. Your Inner Rhino gives credit where it’s due.

The Odd Gasp

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For Rhinos there are hazards involved in having such delicate and sensitive organs of smell. Not only do We have these sensors in our noses, but also in our mouths. A blessing surely, but a complex blessing.

Rhinos can smell 1) the usual stuff, 2) the unusual stuff, and 3) the Future. Uncanny as this last claim may seem, We are accustomed to know what’s on its way, sometimes bunches of time in advance. We cannot help it.

What We can do about it remains sketchy, millions of years after realizing that few things take Us much by surprise. “Told Me so” gets old, right?

Fiddling around

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Sr. Antonio Stradivari was born in 1644 in Cremona, Italy. He became a Genius Craftsman creating stringed instruments, primarily violins. Those instruments still command flabberghasting prices, all over the world.

The question is, did Sr. Stradivari become a brilliant craftsman, or was he born a genius craftsman? We Rhinos tend to think it was the latter; his Inner Rhino was all set to go right from the top.

If there are other opinions, We delicately point out that YIR is (almost) always right.

the tiny whiff

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Sometimes a Rhino catches a surprise aroma that transports Us back to an occasion, a moment, an image or map of sensations. Those may have been real, or maybe not, but the feelings that surround Us are vivid. We wallow for an instant in a happy memory, a floating scenario. We celebrate a Then, even in the Now.

Call Us Scent-imental.