By Dawn Raffel
On a recent visit to Providence, while a group was sitting around the kitchen table, Swami Yogatmananda suggested I write a blog post about rhinoceroses. At first, I thought this was a joke, but after pondering it for a while, I decided to take the challenge.
The topic arose because I had been talking about my abiding interest in elephants. I wrote a blog post about them over a year ago and am enmeshed in writing a novel in which an elephant figures prominently. I mentioned that while visiting an elephant orphanage in Nairobi, I also saw an orphaned baby rhino.
"Why don't you write a blog post about rhinos?" Swami said.
"But I don't know anything about rhinos."
Swami laughed. "You don't know anything about elephants either, and still you wrote about them."
