On White Hair, Part 2

Leviticus 19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Proverbs 20:29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.

Those scriptures are cut and pasted straight from a website, so I can't vouch for their validity (as our high school teachers emphasized continually, not everything you find on the internet is true!). Either way, I know that the Bible speaks positively about gray hair and so I wanted to point out these verses (for the benefit, especially, of my friends who belong to that Church...nevermind).

Anyway, I must keep this short, for I've recently discovered that Ilana only reads short blog posts, but acknowledging one's age is important, and a real mark of maturity. We are all going to die, and we've got to come to terms with that. This is the message of a really lovely book, The Wizard of Earthsea. This book (which describes the way to power over things as through knowing their true names) is chock full of gems like,

The Hardic tongue of the Archipelago, though it has no more magic power in it than any other tongue of men, has its roots in the Old Speech, that language in which things are named with their true names: and the way to the understanding of this speech starts with the Runes that were written when the islands of the world first were raised up from the sea.