April 9 2026

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Rhinos are reintroduced back into Uganda’s wild after 43 years

The Uganda Wildlife Authority has relocated the first southern white rhinos to Kidepo Valley National Park — 43 years after the last rhino in the park was killed by poachers in 1983.

The animals came from Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, a breeding program established in 2005 with just six individuals that has grown Uganda's total rhino population to 61. Four more rhinos will follow by May, with a separate group already relocated to Ajai Wildlife Reserve in January 2026.

The reintroduction restores a key grazing species to one of Africa's most remote savannah ecosystems and makes Kidepo the only national park in Uganda where visitors can see all of the Big Five in a single landscape.

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Stop shoulding yourself

You have been told, and you have been telling yourself, how you are supposed to be. Successful. Productive. Good. Enough. There is always another hoop to jump through, another standard to meet, another version of yourself you haven't quite become yet.

You've been shoulding yourself. Most of us do it constantly.

It comes from religion, from culture, from the rules we quietly absorb and then mistake for truth. Regardless of the source, the result is usually the same: we spend our lives doing what we feel obligated to do, rather than what we feel genuinely called to do. We live someone else's version of goodness, truth, beauty, and wisdom — and forsake our own. Sometimes we don't even realize we can have our own.

Here's what I believe: There is no should. The should is a prison of our own making. Not the cold, hard truth of the universe — just a construct. A story. One we could walk away from, if we chose.

Personally, I often find myself thinking I should be kinder. I should be more mindful. I should be more patient.

And yet, when I sit with it for a moment, I realize I actually want these things. No shoulding required. And these aspirations are much more liberating, joyful, and easeful when I allow them to be a want. When they are a should, I often resist them, even resent them. When I wholeheartedly choose them, they transform. They become a part of my purpose; a big part of what makes my life beautiful, meaningful, and fulfilling.

Imagine "should" as an app on your phone. If you decided, right now, to uninstall it once and for all, what might you do differently with your day today?

Love,
Peter

Peter Schulte Coach, writer, recovering hustle hero. ​​​

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