Another View on Wisdom:
A response to “Your Wisdom is Showing”
By Nadine Holder
January 2008
I sort of took a little issue with the comment about brunettes in their 70s. I am 75 years old and have very few gray hairs. Part is heredity (my dad’s hair was still black at age 95, just not much of it left!). I also attribute my lack of gray to a book I read sometime in my 30s about a young couple who toured the Alaskan wilderness for 9 months and the wife was unable to wash her hair the entire time. The result was a luxuriant head of hair such as she had never seen. I hadn’t colored my hair since a high school debacle with red that took seven years to grow out. I never again colored my hair or used chemicals of any kind on it. I wash my hair about every two or three months with a very mild shampoo with no additives. It is kept very clean in the meantime with daily brushing with a pig bristle brush as plastic tears the hair. I have more hair than I know what to do with and very little gray. Or is it perhaps a lack of wisdom that keeps the gray away?
Copyright © 2008 Nadine Holder.
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