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.
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.
Dear Readers, today is Your Inner Rhino‘s 800th post!
In honor of the event, the Staff is taking the next few days off.
Don’t panic; We’ll be back on Monday, full of Sass.
Sir Isaac Newton was born in 1643. He was a smart fellow. One day an apple fell on his head and he invented Gravity, mostly. He then came up with a formula to prove it.
If Sir Isaac was a Rhino, he would have eaten the apple and thought no more about it.
For more Gravity Talk, see Archive, Oct. 1, 2015.
M. Louis Braille, born 1809 in France, lost his sight in childhood. But by the age of 15, he had developed the system of reading named for him. It works by raised dots on a page.
Rhinos have eyesight, but it isn’t as acute a sense as scent or hearing. Or touch, which is what braille depends upon.
Mighty impressive contribution from M. Braille, with countless grateful beneficiaries.
Today is J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday (1892). He wrote The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, tales of fantastic adventures undertaken for the preservation of Decency.
Sagas of such experiences are common in Rhino Lore, but are too complex to detail in Your Inner Rhino. Just take it from Us, there are lots of similarities.
Clearly, Mr. Tolkien’s inner Rhino was working full time. What else would explain his achievements?
Steamrollers are meant to make things flat. Rhinos are content with wrinkly land, so We don’t need them.
Need them or not, We appreciate how big and rumbly and on-the-job steamrollers are. Outstanding.
Where the steam comes in, We don’t know.
A mystery that has perplexed Rhinos for some time is: How come tomorrow is a day away, but yesterday was last year?
Explain that one, if you can!
Here at Your Inner Rhino We imagine that Father Time may have had it when it gets close to the finish line each year. Probably some years more than others.
This might be such a year, perhaps, maybe, possibly… depending on your point of view. Or not.
There are so many voices chattering away inside the Rhino Mind, that it can make Us queasy.
The Best Solution to this condition is to try to Shut Up our own inner dialog and actually Listen to Nature. Nature does not require evaluation or response.
It is surprising how therapeutic this non-activity can be.
Your Inner Rhino 