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O Sugar, Sugar, Sugar,
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Sugar, O.
Category Archives: Rhino Nifty
AWOL
Once and again, a Rhino will discover that their Brain has taken an unpredicted holiday. It happens. We do not panic. Rhinos wait for the Brain’s return, which is usually soonish. Or at least sooner or later.
What We recommend is that any Rhino in this iffy condition should keep their mouth shut, except to chew.
Right?
HerbLorista
Any Rhino can select a healthy snack from Nature’s bounty. We appraise veggies first on availability, then on freshness, flavor profile, ripeness, and individual leanings. Then We get busy.
Less common is the Rhino with the ability to identify a plant’s history, its mood and intentions, its hopes and dreams. Every living thing has an imagined destiny, but only a select few Rhinos can tune in for the broadcast. Only a few are receptive where it counts, plantwise.
Yes, Rhinos do specialize.
Alternatively speaking
We at Your Inner Rhino wanted to remind you that tomorrow (March 16) will be the Not-the-Ides-of-March Day. Also the 364 days following it.
And what a relief that will be for one and all.
Row, Row, Row your Boat
As you may recall, the last line of this ditty is “Life is but a dream”, a Rhino sentiment if there ever was one.
Rhinos are not nautical in a literal sense, but We can go for a short cruise any time it strikes our fancy. That’s because it is an exercise in Imagination, not Seamanship.
Each of Us is our own Cruise Director, guaranteeing a fine time. Ahoy, Matey!
Confetti Time
Today is Your Inner Rhino‘s 1234th post, as you can see. This seems as good a day as any for marking our progress, so why not? Dress up, chow down, and skip about.
“Tra La La” is our YIR insight for today.
Thank you, Gentle Readers, for tuning in.
Enviosity
Wickedness is common enough in Fairy Tales. Rhinos have heard all about these Villains and their devious ways. In all cases these characters come to a shabby and abrupt end, unwillingly promoting Happiness in their absence.
But, We see that these Villains almost always get the Best Wardrobe. What is the moral of that, hmmm?
Cartographers, Unite
Shown is Fra Mauro (b.1400), a Venetian monk with his famous map, showing the Known World of his day. He worked on it from 1448 to 1459.
Fra Mauro pieced together all the tidbits of information available to him from world travelers and merchants, ultimately arriving at an astonishingly accurate map, 6 feet square. An unexpected feature of the map for Us today is that North is at the bottom of the map, so Africa is at the top. (See “righted” image below.)
Many continents had not been “discovered”, but that gave everybody something to look forward to. Rhinos feel it could happen again, any day now. Why not?
Here is a blow-up, showing the wealth of detail included in the map itself. Zowie!
A la Mode
Richard Steele and Joseph Addison created a London daily paper called The Spectator, starting in 1711. It was full of opinion, poetry, and articles to appeal to a general audience. There was much discussion of modes, manners and morals. The tone of the articles was friendly and persuasive, influential to this day in journalistic circles.
Rhinos appreciate every effort to improve behavior, round and about. And at that time, very much like this, there was plenty to improve. Ask anybody.
Must admit, those folk sure knew how to style a wig!
Gussied Up
Given that Rhinos own nothing, plain or fancy, you may think We don’t give Style a second thought. You would be mistaken. We sometimes imagine ourselves in Exceptional Runway Situations.
Why not? We put in a lot of chewing time, and contemplating ourselves all fancy-pantsed is fun. It lightens our Philosophic Load, which is considerable.
The Real Error would be if We imagined making such an Impression meant anything worth knowing about.
Your Inner Rhino 