Keeping Secrets from other folk is not all that tough. The trick is keeping your mouth shut.
Keeping Secrets from yourself is harder and requires more resolution. Rhinos just need to keep reminding ourselves to Forget.
Not every critter can manage it.
The difference between up here and down there can be surprisingly tenuous.
This is called “The Uh-Oh Factor”.
For Rhinos, things can take an unexpected turn, demanding adjustment and reconfiguration and sometimes sedation. We don’t know what to think, or feel or expect: thus, Discombobulation.
It ain’t pretty, but there it is. Our wits are on Overload.
Edgar Allen Poe is a famous American author and poet (b.1809). His writing is not cheery, dealing with death and the macabre emotional storm that sometimes surrounds it.
Rhinos do not celebrate death; We accept it as inevitable, arriving on its own schedule, with or without warning. Entirely Natural.
Rhinos like theatrics, but distrust drama.
January 18 is the birthday of AA Milne, 1882. Drawing inspiration from his young son, he created a world of stuffed toys, each with a personality and endearing quirks. This world was brought to life by EH Shepard, the illustrator of Winnie the Pooh, as well as The Wind in the Willows.
What a charming legacy, Rhino or no Rhino. Thank you, Gentlemen.
Today Your Inner Rhino lionizes, lauds, and panegyrizes the gift of Peter Roget (b.1779), namely his Thesaurus. His effort to synthesize the English language enriches anybody who chooses to explore the subtleties of language.
Rhinos exercise a similar delicate distinction with Scent, which is perhaps why We extol Mr. Roget’s work. His Inner Rhino shimmered. And shimmers on.
Ideas are elusive and tricky and unpredictable. Here one moment, then wiggled away the next.
On the happy side, they are all over the place, inside, outside, all over. But on the glum side, they have to be pinned down as soon as they appear, or a Rhino can just forget it.
Or has forgot it.
Timing is often a crucial factor in the course of a Rhino’s life. For instance, what if Today is Your Best Day Ever?
Wouldn’t it be too bad if you hadn’t noticed it as it wandered by?
That’s right. Time to pay attention to the present.
Though it is a pleasure to present oneself nicely, Adversity is not impressed by appearances, nor by good spelling.
Adversity has a system all its own, which no Rhino has yet figured out.
We used to have Ice Ages. Big, long and chilly, that was the Rhino Assessment.
If you want to make your own Glacier, you need special ingredients: First you need a Lot of Snow, plus cold temperatures to prevent melting the Snow away. Then add a lot of Time, and the Snow mounts up: Voila!, your very own Glacier.
Or maybe not. It turns out that Nature has to do projects this large. They are trickier than they look.
Your Inner Rhino 