Nature presents Rhinos with many mysteries, each with answers that seem logical, but which don’t entirely satisfy.
For instance, are small rocks growing into big rocks, as young Rhinos do? Or, are the big rocks jumping apart and making small rocks? Rocks do not reveal their inner secrets much, at least to Us.
50 million years and We are still hazy on this point. Maybe the rock’s business is not our business.
Happy First Day of Christmas from Your Inner Rhino.
Raggedy Ann is a creation of author and illustrator Johnny Gruelle (b.1880). He based his tales on a doll his mother made for his sister when she was little.
Raggedy Ann and her brother, Raggedy Andy- and their colorful friends, are Rhino favorites.
Part of Ann and Andy’s charm is that on their chests are the words “I Love You”. How could they ever go wrong?
Your Inner Rhino sends you our very Warmest Wishes for a Fulfilling Holiday Season.
Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (b.1928) was an Austrian artist and architect with his own idiosyncratic recipe. He never met a straight line he liked. A wonderful appreciation of color and saturation, and a childlike delight in spontaneity. AND an early supporter of environmental protection.
What Rhino could resist a guy like that? Why would We try?
When accessorizing your Wednesday, go bold. That’s how Rhinos handle it, and it has worked for 50 million years in a Wide Assortment of Circumstances.
That said, Rhinos are seldom sure when Wednesday is.
Today is the day when Kenya achieved autonomy from Great Britain in 1963. Shown is a Kikuyu Bantu festival outfit, one major tribe among many in Kenya.
Kenya has always been Kenya no matter what it was called and who was “in charge”. Humans have been there only 2 million years, while Rhinos have been there about 10. Today, Rhinos both Black and White still live there in the huge conservation parks. Sharing.
Happy Republic Day to one and all.
Many critters just eat, or so it appears to Us.
We Rhinos, on the other hand, have made an Art Form of Dining, a gustatory approach and technique of chewing, salivating, grinding and ingestion that would be the envy of any connoisseur, whatever the area of discerning application.
We honor our meals with our undivided attentions, unless We have things on our minds, which does happen. Then We have to split the difference.
And here We are, celebrating Finland’s Independence Day, all day. Also, Flag Day. Rhinos everywhere salute Finns everywhere.
Finland separated from Russia in 1917, so this is their 99th Birthday. (Obviously, somebody told Us that, given our R counting issues.)
After some debate, YIR decided a joulutorttu was more fun as a birthday cake, as opposed to a muf-Finn. Heh, heh.
The fellow in the picture is the Krampus, a Bad Behavior Expert. He spends his time locating erring Bavarian children, and then either sweeps them away, or thrashes them with his birch switch. He deals with the Naughty, while St. Nicholas treats the Virtuous.
This is Krampusnacht, his night for delivering Correction. Sensible children quake.
His mission might also recommend improvement for our Readers- any who are tempted to stray, if such there be.
Your Inner Rhino 