Happy First Day of Christmas from Your Inner Rhino.
With a Candy Heart
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?
Fa la la la laaa, la, la, la, La!
Your Inner Rhino sends you our very Warmest Wishes for a Fulfilling Holiday Season.
Imprisoned
Sometimes events make Us feel that Hope and Enthusiasm are pointless. Obviously to any Rhino, this is nonsense. We restrict ourselves. We are not prisoners of events. We are prisoners when we accept ourselves as capable of limitation.
Nature has not created Us Rhinos with a taste for restriction.
We just need to get on with our Business.
Pupils’ Alternatives
The young Rhino who refuses to heed Motherly Advice often has to learn those lessons from The World.
The World is happy to provide that education.
Dear Santa
Rhinos don’t actually write request letters, it’s true.
But We can wish that We had more Sympathetic Understanding for those with whom We disagree. Any help We can get along those lines is welcome. If Santa has Fellow Feeling in a capsule, We’d like as much as can be spared.
In this holiday season and in the years to come, Rhinos aspire to Harmony when and where We can accomplish it.
Remorse
Everyone makes mistakes or embraces disappointment along Life’s Highway. Some of these encounters leave lasting scars, others heal in the fullness of time.
Every Rhino is shackled to troubling memories, and each memory has its own curious characteristics; no two regrets are the same. They come in different shapes and sizes, but they all know how to gnaw your ankles.
Ultimately, Rhinos can’t go back and fix things. It’s Too Bad.
an Original
Paul Klee (b.1879) was a Swiss Expressionist-Cubist-Surrealist, among other things.
Rhinos don’t have a lot to say about him, other than ‘Bravo’. That pretty much covers it.
following directions
So many directions, and so emphatic! Suggestions for limiting Rhino options to suit heaven-only-knows-who.
We are told these signs are provided to ensure Order. But that only works if critters wish to be orderly, which some must not.
Also, these directives would be more meaningful if We Rhinos could read.
Refinements re-refined
Jane Austen is celebrating her 241st birthday today. An insightful and witty author, detailing a society that Rhinos only vaguely understand. Life back then seems to have involved a range of social hurdles, establishing one’s eligibility for matrimony. Split an infinitive, and it was time to set sail for New Zealand.
Rhinos do not have mates for anything but mating, so the qualifying rounds are physical. Cut the mustard, deal with rivals, and We are ‘in business’. A less confusing and less time-consuming system.
Are Rhinos and YIR‘s Readers so very different? We may opine, but blush to publish an opinion…
Your Inner Rhino 