We want to discuss the many selves each of Us has inside. For many the Inner Rhino is spiced with Inner Buffalo, others have Inner Squirrel, and others have a rampant Inner Kangaroo. Or a blend, one way or another. That is how We are made, part of Nature’s rich tapestry of Rhinos.

These traits often make themselves evident pretty early on, often surprising the Mom in question. Still, there is little profit in arguing with a tot who won’t stop hopping. Why not just go with it and see what happens? We can always hope for a postcard from Australia…

Character gets built one way or another; why interfere? Who knows best? Ah, Nature knows best, every time.

We had hoped to avoid this sort of post, but We at Your Inner Rhino have been persuaded that a ‘no-velvet-glove’ policy is necessary. You Readers must simply Face the Music.

Given superior Rhino experience and longevity, We have to occasionally cut across, and deliver the Nitty Gritty. Today is just a sample.

Enough said.

The Yin-Yang of Organization probably sounds like 1) Organized stuff and 2) others, Not So Organized. Understandable, if you assume it matters one way or the other.

What We figure is, everything We need to do had better get done, so the order doesn’t count for much. Better to just plow into the day, and take care of things as they pop up. They always do pop up, ask Anybody.

That is why our version of Organization doesn’t bother to put things onto the graphs and slots and boxes; We don’t trifle with particulars. We just press on, and attend to stuff as best We can.

What’s with those little arrows anyway, right? Chart, Schmart.

Rhinos like to think of our fathers as ideal in every way. For Us, We can make up what he was like, since We are all raised by our mothers. That’s our system, take it or leave it. So Dad is who We pretend he was.

We have overheard other critters (and Readers) mention specific reservations about their parents, where their folks failed and how perverse it all was.

Rhinos are naïve that way. But We do wonder how anybody can think a parent ruined things on purpose.

True, some parents are not at their best a lot of the time. But no matter what, whoever woke up and thought, “I know, today I’ll screw up Parenthood”?