Growth Spurts

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6-24GrowSpurt

Youth is surprising. One morning We wake up, and part of Us has grown! Was like that, now like this! The shifts grab our attention when We notice, which is not all the time (another feature of Youth).

Rhinos are never certain, even after 50 million years of wondering about it, whether We grow inside, making the outside stretch, or the outside grows and the inside has too hustle to fill it up…?

We don’t fret about these matters. Nature has worked out all those details for Us, allowing Rhinos to resolutely fumble forward.

The Hornpipe Amidships

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6-23 AhoyMaT
Today Your Inner Rhino provides a proverb: “Smooth Seas never made a Seaworthy Sailor”. Rhinos are enthusiastic swabs and like this sort of salty insight.

We generally confine our maritime adventures to dry land. There is a lot more dry land where Rhinos live than there is ocean. Plus more greenery at lunchtime.

As you can imagine, it’s harder to find your sea legs when you have four of them.

Narrative Fabrications

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6-22 FvFiction

All Rhinos like storytelling, in whatever format. It is interesting how Fictional Figures can hold our imaginations so thoroughly. We know these FFs as companions, pals, exemplars and foes. They engage some aspect of Us; We are kindred spirits.

It may be distillation of character that makes these FFs so user-friendly. The complexities are removed to focus on particular attributes or tonalities. Not so with our actual acquaintances, darn it.

We want our cake, but We show up with forks in hand. Uh-oh. Ambiguity!

Seasonal Hypotheses

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6-20 MURMAID

This being the first day of Summer (because they say so), Rhino minds turn to Summer Stuff. At the top of the list is Mermaid Notions; what are they like, what’s on their minds, where do they come from?

Rhino mermaidenly ideas are entirely governed by myth. We do not know any mermaids firsthand, but their mystique is only enhanced by our lack of acquaintance. Mermaids are elusive.

One thing We ponder: if Rhinos are made up of greens, which We eat, are mermaids made up of kelp?

Dads

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6-19DaDay

Expectations regarding Family Dynamics vary from one culture to another.

Today celebrates Fatherhood. Rhinos are for it, though We don’t form into family groupings as many of our Readers do. Few of Us ever have anything to do with our sires. That is just how it is.

One thought about Dads: without them, where would We be?

Athleticism

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6-18 juggle

World Juggler’s Day comes but once a year. Given Rhino applicable skills, it could come less often than that.

We mostly contemplate these performance possibilities with a knit brow. We feel things are going well if We toss a ball and catch it again on the same day.

When juggling, our standards are modest.

Points of View

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6-18 StoryPower

Stories are fascinating. Not all Rhinos like the same tales, but each and every Rhino has a set of myths that help to define that individual. Those stories become part of that Rhino’s fabric, much the same way as Memories, themselves stories We hold dear. They are touchstones of our perception.

Stories invite an investment of selfhood that opens up a World for each Rhino. The Rhino may be one character, or all the characters. Nothing in the story has to stay constant, but at its core, that story resonates with that Rhino.

Like it or not, We are all composed of these interpretive ingredients.

20th Century Modern

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6-17 RiteOfSpring
Igor Stravinsky, born in 1882, composed The Rite of Spring, which was first performed in Paris in 1913. It was unexpected and entirely novel. Both the music and the choreography, plus its violent mindset, caused a riot.

What appeals to Rhinos is The Rite of Spring‘s raw muscularity, its throbbing pulse, its drive for fertility at all costs. All very Rhino.

If the story seems a bit grim, it aligns with Nature, where things are seldom gratuitously pretty. Hence Modern Dance.