Sad but true, We Rhinos don’t embrace many table formalities. We go for the Gusto.

A Rhino Question: When is Too Much almost Enough? This remains a R.Q. since We have never experienced the Too Much part, right?

Chow Down, Dear Friends.

Rhinos often have trouble with the idea of teensy silverware at mealtime. Not much Food sticks to them.

We prefer to make other arrangements for the Big Day. A little forethought comes in handy, but We like to leave it up to the guest to bring along what might be useful besides k, f, & spoon.

Holidays involve forethought and tactics. Remember: We won’t need ‘seconds’ if We strategize for ‘firsts’.

Rhinos have a lot to be grateful for, and We are well aware of it. We remind ourselves all the time, also We remind each other.

But making lists of these Kindnesses is difficult. We don’t have actual paper or pencils. Also, since We can’t count beyond three, our efforts are mostly approximate. We start out, but then We confront our own limitations.

The important part is that We give our attention to those who lighten our load, in whatever specific way that they do. Big or small, a Kindness is a Kindness. And We receive far too many to list them in an orderly fashion. So We say, “Thank you”.

We Rhinos are used to seeing Rune Stones here and there, dotted over the landscape. Like heiroglyphics, Runes are meant to inform. However, We estimate that one critter in a Bazillion, Rhinos included, can read the Runes with any degree of confidence today.

Creating these stones, which vary in size, must have taken a lot of effort. We are impressed, and would like to help deliver the stones to those who can read them. The markings are expressive of the individual artist; they do not conform to a strict norm. Some of them are quite beautiful in their way.

Still, We Rhinos can appreciate Rune Stones in their own right. We find them calming. And We can never get too much of that.

We Rhinos have our own version of light processing. We seem to attract light energy, and then something happens inside, and We are improved or enhanced or awakened. It is a consistent phenomenon as far as We can see, but there may be another explanation.

One thing We can report: it feels good.

The Ides of March did not work out for Julius Caesar; he got murdered in the Roman Senate. However, every month has an Ides tucked in there in the middle. We can’t recall Bad Stuff linked to other Ides, can We?

Still, the Ides of November (which were November 13) are a recent example. Does all Bad News suggest mysterious or soiled motives? Not as We Rhinos have noticed.

Still, it always pays to be Alert. Keep your eyes peeled.

Often, in our Rhino experience, We encounter individuals who present themselves loudly, flailing their arms, hollering, casting aspersions helter-skelter. Lots of performance “skills”. These Rhinos are often found in political situations. Being RIGHT. And sometimes even RIGHTER.

Almost all Rhinos would prefer that these Rousers would spend their energies making sense.

Rhinos think it is funny, as in peculiar, how We are wired by Nature. We are proceeding in our Rhino routine, when all of a sudden We are overcome with Wanderlust. It is Time To Go SEE STUFF.

So We tell somebody We are off (they hardly look up) and away We go. Were it not for this instinctual prompting, Rhinos would not be as perpetually present as We are, here and there. Wherever.

Globe trotting is thrilling. Some expeditions last a morning, others a lifetime. Either way, We win. Independence has a lot to recommend it. (To be fair, getting home again is also nice.)

The first step in doing this blog is an idea worth mentioning. Then an image volunteers from wherever they lurk, if We’re lucky, and Then, We are in business.

As often as not, these visions or communications arrive without warning, and just in the knick of time. The YIR Staff is writhing around, when all of a sudden, Bingo. Somebody gets hold of something, and We all hustle into action.

Another source for ideas is Dreamland. We cross over that gap and dither around, and then, Voila! An idea. We roll our eyes and realize how fortunate We are.

Even for Rhinos, finding something does not mean We can grasp its meaning. We can wonder about it. But it seldom helps to force ourselves to make up answers.

We just hold on til things clear themselves up on their own. We call it postponing, and it works pretty well. For Us.