After a happy breakfast of greens, a Rhino will often sit and hum over topics of interest, such as limericks extolling the Wild, or mud, or root systems…
What is remarkable is how cogitation can anesthetize Us Rhinos to the most obvious of Situations. Clues to the left, clues to the right, but “none so deaf as those who will not hear”. Or sniff.
On the other hand, We can’t go without breakfast, right? Tricky, Life in the Wild.
As with any group, there are ways of dividing up Rhinodom. Today We are discussing ‘Going Places’.
One sort of Rhino wants what We want and We’d like it right now. We go get it. The Bee-Line approach.
The other sort of Rhino is on the road, but We want to take in the sights while moving ahead. Eventually will work just as well, if not as soon. The Sooner-or-Later approach.
Yup. That’s how We see it here at Your Inner Rhino. Today.
When mulling over a Life Bafflement, any Rhino is unlikely to thank the local chatterbox for dropping in, uninvited, to share droll observations about the weather or the ‘ladybug problem’.
The only meaningful response to these incursions on one’s quietude is, “Huh?”
Like sand dunes, reforming and shifting around, that’s how Rhinos see the moments of our lives. Like a zillion grains of sand.
Until We matured as a species, Rhinos assumed We had some control over those winds. Eventually We woke up, more or less.
Nature is always in charge, at least of everything natural.
Phrenology is the practice of Bump Reading of the head or skull or something. For Rhinos it is a secondary course of action, at best. We get our information, current, hot and tidy, through our noses and ears.
Nature provides Rhinos with plenty of lumps, you may believe. We get lots of them accidentally.
Charts seem as though they should be reassuring, but We find them more decorative than meaningful, day to day. We made this one for you Readers, featuring numbers and letters, which make it Official. The more colors, the better, is the Your Inner Rhino approach.
Today Your Inner Rhino felt We should celebrate the work of Rachel Carson, whose books The Sea Around Us and The Silent Spring did so much to raise public awareness of global pollution and what might be done to stem it.
We Rhinos, all critters, the air, the earth, and the seas are indebted for her active interest.
Thanks, Ms. Carson.
Rhino dating is a brisk business, geared entirely toward making more Rhinos. We might try to make it seem more romantic, but Spin is not the Rhino Way.
Part One is the girl Rhino letting guy Rhinos know she is in the mood. (It should be noted that the guy Rhinos go berserk once they get this message.)
Part Two is the guy Rhinos thrashing out who is going to do what. Very Physical.
Part Three is getting together. Remarkably Enthusiastic.
Steps Two and Three involve a lot of heavy duty Rough & Tumble, sometimes with catastrophic results for the Participants. Neither sad nor jolly nor romantic- just how it is.
When We Rhinos find ourselves embarking on an Endeavor that could get Prickly (botanically or personally), We take Precautions.
Rhinos embody a remarkable combination of sensitivity, awareness and insight; so in our planetary interactions We risk getting our Feelings Hurt.
But get this: We sidestep that hazard by only taking one Feeling with Us, leaving the others safely behind. That way, at worst only one can get bruised! Brilliant!
Hip hip hooray! It is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday. In 1887 he gave the public The Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes adventure. Holmes lived in London, which back then was a lot foggier than it is now, due to pollution controls in the early 1950s and 60s.
Not many Rhinos resided in London at the time. The air was not breathable (and We require a lot on a daily basis). It’s better now, but there are many fewer Rhinos, so We only visit every so often.
Pity.
Today is Henri Rousseau’s birthday. We Rhinos like his style. It seems immediate, direct, a very personal approach. No invisible formality or expectation.
M. Rousseau was self-taught, which is Very Rhino. We only gravitate to situations or academies where things keep moving. A healthy glance at M. Rousseau’s work and you know he was not trying to please anybody else; he was doing his own thing.
What other ‘thing’ is there to do?
Your Inner Rhino 