From a Redhead's Perspective

"...There is more, much more, to being a redhead than the color of one’s hair. After all, hair color changes naturally throughout one’s life. It can also be changed deliberately. But we were born redheads, we live as redheads, and someday we will die redheads. It cannot be taken away from us. Nor can it be obtained by simply dyeing one’s hair. In other words, redheads are born, not made.

...We are not redheads because our hair is red (and every redhead has naturally red hair at least sometime in his life). Rather, I am convinced, our hair is red because we are redheads.

Being a redhead comes from within. Redheadedness is a quality of the person, a state of mind. Red hair is simply an external, physical, manifestation, and a sure giveaway of this state of mind. Because of its beauty, red hair also is a special gift of nature given to redheads in appreciation for our special role in human society. We are only "different" because there are so few of us." G. Adam Stanislav

This summer was the 100th anniversary of the publishing of Anne of Green Gables. I enjoyed rereading all the books (all 8) and the series Avonlea based on other books by the same author. It had to replace visiting the festivities in Prince Edward Island.