The Silver Screen

July 30, 2015 by Bill Schroder in R Mindset, Rhino Nifty, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Like a cinema presentation, our entire past is ready to roll upon request. When We say ‘entire’, We mean the whole shebang, back to who-knows-when, which was a lot ago. A Rhino Netflix, if you will. Or a memory bank with added attractions.

We are talking Inside here. As you would expect, there is a scent factor to each image, which informs the viewer of the intensity and mood of the given “film”, somewhat like a sound track or background music.

The experience can be mesmerizing. So whelming is it that We can only enjoy these viewings in small doses, lest We fry our circuits. Plus We have other things to attend to, mostly kids and dinner.

We feel pretty certain that these presentations are part of our in-the-womb training (see December 6, 2014), since none of Us is taken by surprise by the contents. We just refresh our faith in ourselves. And our faith in Nature.

These visions are Nature’s bedtime story. Some features come with cartoons, but not all.

Rarified Atmosphere

July 29, 2015 by Bill Schroder in R Lite, Rhino Nifty | 3 Comments

An Inner Rhino Public Service Announcement: Friday the 31st is a full moon. This is something special called a Blue Moon, which is a second full moon within a single month. It happens seldom, like every three years, give or take a decade, hence the expression “once in a blue moon”.

The whole business is related to numbers, so We had to seek help. Rhinos are OK with 2, but ultra-shaky on 31. When We sing “The Twelve Days of Christmas” We just sing through 4 calling birds, then repeat a few times. Too many numbers.

Doubtless you will want to align your wardrobe with this event, so a few days notice is probably useful.

High Seas

July 28, 2015 by Bill Schroder in R Life Lessons, R Mindset | 2 Comments

Now and then Rhinos like to pretend that We are in our rational minds. The idea is touching, but hard to prove when We see ourselves in action. Often We are on our way, long before We have a clear destination.

In point of fact, what motivates Us is a roiling sea of emotions, churning away just below the surface. We row this way and that, but the tides are calling the shots currently (heh,heh: nautical humor).

Consequently We make up Reasons for what We’ve done and why. Keeps Us imaginative, just creating justifications and probable scenarios to explain how oddly We behave. There’s a lot going on inside that gets expressed, ‘understand’ it or not.

Just take a look at History to confirm our contention.

Yes and No

July 27, 2015 by Bill Schroder in R Mindset, Rhino Nifty | 1 Comment

Everything probably has some version of the not-thing, the part that makes the thing itself appear to be. Even when We can’t see it, We know it is there. If We concentrate on a potato, We know that everything around it is a setting for that potato; it is the not-potato, as it were.

We pointed this out to the Chinese some time ago, though it seems pretty obvious. Funny how ideas or concepts recycle themselves over time. No and yes?

Our Inner Rhino is the part of Us that is not the Rest of Us. Neither part functions quite right without the other. Simplicity itself. Inside or out. Coming or going.

Somewhere in there…

July 25, 2015 by Bill Schroder in R Life Lessons, R Outlook, Rhino Nifty | Leave a comment

Just Where is your Inner Rhino, you may well ask. We are not much more clear on that topic than you are, but We have a lot more lore than you, leastways as pertains to your Inner Radish.

A lesser-known (but no less crucial) bodily organ is the Radish, which is not attached to anything in particular inside you. We think of it as being near your funny bone, but that location varies from one critter to another. For all We really know, the Radish may shift around in there, driven by its own mysterious imperatives. (We cannot interview the Inner Radish, any more than you could get a good chat out of your pancreas, and that’s easier to locate.)

Rhinos often discuss the Radish in familiar terms, seeing it as a receptive nook for our True Selves. We can always visit it when We feel down, and get a booster shot of Rhino. Who can contemplate the Radish and not get a worthy chortle out of it? Right: Nobody. Whoosh! Back in business.

If you like, go back to March 18 to refresh your Radish Appreciation.

Musings

July 25, 2015 by Bill Schroder in R Life Lessons, R Mindset, R Outlook, Rhino Nifty | Leave a comment

It’s busy inside Us, our Rhino Inner Rhino. So many intentions, conjectures, beliefs, theories, as well as foggy ideas, waiting for clarification. Some stand out, some others remain in the background, waiting to serve. It’s a crowd.

Wondering what will take focus in any given moment is stimulating. Sometimes ideas team up, sometimes one claims our full attention. Now and again they all take a break and let Us ponder what lies before Us.

And all of this goes on while We seek something to chew on. Rhinos are born to multi-task.

Twinkling On

July 23, 2015 by Bill Schroder in R Lite, Rhino Nifty | 2 Comments

“GrrOOOOWffffffff”, etc. Seasons Greeting to all you Leos out there, prowling about and a-lashing of your tails.

Your Inner Rhino salutes you.

Perfection!!

July 23, 2015 by Bill Schroder in R Life Lessons, R Outlook | Leave a comment

Here is some Serious Nonsense: We could be perfect if only We attended to some flaw, selected almost at random from a list made up by people We don’t even know. Then everyone would adore Us, right? Shower Us with things We don’t need and can’t even eat!

Wake up call! Ring, ring! It’s for Us!

Nature has made Us perfect from the get-go. We don’t need to strive for anything that isn’t already in the package when We shoot down the tube! We are Nature’s darlings, and are here to celebrate our Inner Rhino, not to wish We were somebody else. Who We are is as grand as anything gets, and just as perfect.

Perfectionism… get real. Oh, yeah… and happy.

Hurlyburly

July 22, 2015 by Bill Schroder in R Life Lessons, R Mindset, R Outlook | 3 Comments

RhinoResearch indicates that Nature thrives in the face of Chaos. Things are never just one way; they usually go in both directions, wherever they are headed. Coming and Going, as well as Side-stepping. More and less, all at once.

We wonder if perhaps those critters that like Order may have landed on the wrong planet. Perhaps there is another place where things are shipshape, but obviously it’s not here.

RhinoTheories of Extinction have to do with the inability to go with the flow, or flows. Digging in one’s heels and dictating how things must be does not appear to impress Nature, and why would it? Rhinos prefer to welcome each impact, and see where it rocks or rolls Us. Even in Sumatra. Or especially in Sumatra.

Stubborn is not only Unattractive, but often disastrously Unrealistic.

Investigations

July 21, 2015 by Bill Schroder in Department of the Interior, R Life Lessons, R Outlook | Leave a comment

Each of Us has a key, or possibly is a key, but locating the lock where the key works requires Determination, (which is a Rhino specialty). We are lucky that way.

We proceed from situation to situation until We find ourselves in a promising spot. The key works like gang-busters, and We trot through that door! Things feel sort of triumphant. Ta Daaah! Arrived!

The part they don’t tell you is that each door opens onto another series of opportunities, each keyhole different. Again. Corridors and tiers of options. Gotta keep plugging.

In some metaphorical version of Life, that’s what it’s all about. At least for Us. Our Inner Rhino is complex, more about discovery than congratulations.