Each Rhino has a Life Story, grand or grotesque. The thing that holds the story together is a Through Line, a core theme which typifies that unique Rhino, first to last.
What’s odd is that most Rhinos have little idea of what their Through Line is. One chapter of the story seems utterly distinct from the former or next chapter. We just bop along, wondering why and how things get out of whack.
Possibly, something could be done to shake up the system, or… possibly not?
Makes your blood run cold, right?!?
Today is National Candy Corn Day. Candy Corn was “created” by Mr. George Renninger of the Wunderle Candy Company in the 1880s. Like it or not, everybody knows what it is.
The illustration does not truly represent the confectioner’s art; it is more in the spirit of the Halloween season.
Another Conversation Stopper, brought to you by Your Inner Rhino.
Mr. Othniel Marsh (b.1831) was a paleontologist, heading the Peabody Museum at Yale. He engaged in the Bone Wars (see YIR Sept. 7, 2017), which did a great deal to promote field research in the West.
Despite his personality, he is accountable for naming over 80 fossil dinosaurs and other critters as well. He used Latin to help him out. Without Mr. Marsh, maybe We’d never know what to call them; Big Whatevers?
Rhinos find it fascinating to imagine a world millions of years before We were even thought of. Jeepers!
Trying to read between the Lines of Experience seems pointless. Maybe there is Nothing between the lines to read. Yes, no, maybe, sometimes?
Happily, Rhino lack of Comprehension doesn’t seem to make a lot of difference. It may be that Rhinos are not meant to grasp each detail, or indeed, any detail. Not fully at any rate.
Sounds likely to Us.
Rhinos don’t come with a Maintenance Manual. However it is We work, or whatever is going on inside, in the Wild each Rhino just uses the sense they have, and hopes for the best.
Nature does provide each of Us with a remarkable range of Instincts. Learning to balance and rely on those Instincts takes time and dedication. It is a fund of knowledge which must be honored.
The critter that knows better is often the one that dies young. Sorry, but it’s so.
If you are attentive to Dew and its ways, you will have noticed that all Dew disappears in time, but the side nearer the sun disappears first.
Timing and location somehow come into play. Rhinos feel relatively certain of that.
Close observation is the trick, when dealing with Dew.
“I woulda, coulda, shoulda said ‘X’, which would have baked their biscuit but good!”
Thus begin convoluted internal debates about the response that got away. Rhinos all round the world know this feeling. Grumbly dissatisfaction.
However, it is the thing that We did say that more often leads to Regrets, at least in our humble experience.
George Bizet, born today in 1838, is best known for his 1875 opera version of Carmen, based on a novella by Prosper Merimee. Obviously, each was in touch with his Inner Rhino; it accounts for the fiery assault of the music and the story.
Rhinos all like this piece, whatever it is about. Clearly this Carmen is a gal who takes no prisoners, goes for the gusto, and plays a mean castanet. With qualifications like those, what more is needed?
The opera takes place in Seville, Spain, where polka dots are the rage. And it is plain why that would be. Right?!?
Ms. Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls successfully in a barrel. She planned her stunt for her 63rd birthday. She made quite a splash, but never did an encore.
71 years earlier, in 1829, a Mr. Sam Patch jumped from the falls and survived, but no barrel was involved.
We Rhinos do not recommend this sort of endeavor. We recognize the Attractions of Lunacy, but We are mostly able to resist temptation. Mostly.
Your Inner Rhino 