On Authority, We Rhinos are told that Grasses are 60 million years old. Maybe more, maybe less. Either way, they have been successful, over time developing in many directions, most of them edible.

Rhinos eat a lot of Grass, daily. What may not look like Grass to a casual observer, still counts as Grass at suppertime.

Technicalities aside, Rhinos sing the praises of Grass at all meals, including teatime. We feel it is the least We can do to be grateful and encouraging.

Rhinos realize We are always raving about the Wild, the world as Nature presents it. Rhinos have loved it ever since whenever. When it shifted or lurched, We Rhinos lurched and shifted to keep up. We are Adaptable-ish.

Rhino Recommended: Don’t be picky eaters. In the Wild every meal is not going to be ideal or even appetizing. However, those meals are part of the BigMenu which will keep Us plugging onward.

It is called an Educated Palate, the ability to get what We get, and make what We can of what We’ve got. Get it?

Rhinos recommend celebrating at least three time a day. We don’t like to get rusty. A little practice comes in handy when things go our way.

Heels may serve many purposes, but they are great for kicking up!

No matter what ideas wander through our Rhino Brains, one simple fact is always available: Rhinos are connected to everything We meet. What may appear to be a chance encounter is immaterial. It still tests Us to incorporate it into our minds.

What takes time is not the noticing. What takes time is Us noticing our noticing. We gloss over things while missing opportunities to include, to participate.

Is the bug witnessing the Rhino, or the other way around? Answer: yes.

In the face of Difficult Ponderings, Rhinos find that there are Interior Suggestions, Opinions, Warnings, etc., which all come flooding forth to ‘help’. One is louder than the next, but none is truly satisfying.

Unfortunately, it’s often difficult to shut off the cries and whispers, even in retrospect.

It’s mostly aggravating.

One of the Major Systems of Nature is the constancy of Change. In big ways, in small ways, things are moving forward, or backward, or wayward, but that is how it is.

An element of this policy is that there will be many hellos for a Rhino. And many goodbyes, however dear and essential those folk or places may have been.

Change is not always easy. Sometimes it hurts or seems unjust. But no Rhino is exempt.

Rhinos used to assume that Emotions were good for guaging the Importance of things, or situations. However for a bunch of time, Rhinos have had our doubts. Maybe Emotions work on the Yo-Yo theory: Sometimes We are Up, sometimes We are Down.

Most of the time We are somewhere between extremes.

So perhaps attaching Importance to Emotion is just a big waste of Time?

The Rhino version of this nursery jingle varies from the original, because Rhinos are phobic about Fire, with every good reason.

From the get-go, RhinoTots are drilled about Fire and its ruthless ways.

On this topic, Rhinos allow neither Nonsense nor Flippancy.

Rhinos have always enjoyed the Hurdy Gurdy, an instrument of Yore. You crank on one end and twinkle the keys on the other end, and out comes Music worth skipping to.

It has things in common with an accordion, if you think about it. Well, everything today has Ancestors one way and another. Hurdy Gurdies no less than the Rhinoceros.

By Nature, Rhinos are a placid species, going about our business, causing little ruckus. But We do React Big Time when We encounter Special Vegetation. Something goes off Inside, and We flip our lids.

It’s not altogether an orderly response, but it is not altogether Unpleasant.