Inside each Rhino there are dozens of Contradictions, Points of View vying for attention. Big Picture, We have our questioning, considering self, seeking “Reality”. Big Picture, part 2, We have the Realization of those thoughts, the physical time-for-lunch and Whoops-a-Daisy side of matters.

Mostly these halves get along fine. Rhinos just have to be patient with ourselves; each of Us has multiple Rhythm Sections. It gets noisy in here.

October 4 was International Toot Your Flute Day, honestly. But YIR missed the boat, so We address our oversight here and now. When Rhinos err, We step up and face the music, as it were.

Rhinos celebrate the flute and those who play them, called flutists or sometimes floutists, depending on some occult set of rules We do not grasp.

Huzzah for the Flute and its followers. Rhinos do not play the flute, having only 3 toes per limb. The World of Classical Music is grateful for our restraint. We have Testimonial Letters, saying so.

Rhinos come in many flavors. One crowd are those with the urge to explore, to go odd places and do odd things. They are the Wanderlusters!

Some Rhinos never leave home, others go investigate. Sometimes a few miles, sometimes long distance. With pals or solo.

In the past 50 million years this urge has proved invaluable. When climatic shifts occurred, the Wanderlusters could help the gang relocate. Rhinos: Informed and Flexible.

We at ‘YourInnerRhino’ were surprised to encounter the term “Sophomania”. It means assuming that one’s Intelligence is superior to that of the rest of the planet. You see the trap, right?

But for Adolescents, the idea merely confirms what they assumed all along. Rhinos try to be tolerant, many of Us having made the same mistake ourselves, in our youth.

So many folk are prepared to help the Sophomaniac rethink matters. If those folk are busy, Nature will attend to it, post haste.

It’s easy to take maps for granted, but they are an ongoing collaborative work. Maps give Us an idea of what is where, which is important if you are trying to get there, right? Or leave there.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (see map) b. 276 BC, is famous as the Father of Geography, which is what that word at the top means. We can’t have History if We don’t have Geography, right? Right.

Eratosthenes was a Librarian at Alexandria, but it would not fit on this map, so you will have to consult another map to find it. Today there are lots of maps. Back then, not so much.

We Rhinos like to mix things up.

We Rhinos try not to be Impatient, but We enjoy only limited success in that regard. We like outcomes Now. Or sooner.

Well, too bad for Us at the moment.

Three toe-taps left, three-toe taps right, etc.

This motto of the United States promotes the concept of differences overcome to enrich, serve and support all the people of this nation. Let Us hope that can be accomplished, in a constructive spirit of unity. Today.

We cannot say just why it is that changing the clocks should put Us into a Fuss, but sometimes it does. As a species, Rhinos have no idea what Time it is; changing its name would seem beside the point.

Still, this year the Time seems to have developed an elastic quality, where We cannot depend on it to behave.

Maybe it is stress. Or too much Halloween. Or the influence of upcoming events? We feel a bit jittery.