*'In A Good Old Age', **'Old & Full of Days', As the Scribe Might Have Termed Things, ***Another (Famous) Beloved Black Man Departs This Earthly Life...Sydney Poitier, The Watching (Western) World Salutes You: For Ever Bearing Yourself With Dignity, Grace & Aplomb - & Guts, Gumption & Grit (Whether Upon the (Big) Screen Or In Public Life) & Serving As A Role Model (Way Ahead of 'the Pack', Long Ahead of the Times) For So Very Many, I Have Little Doubt...

*/**/*** Above references are (respectively) to:

*the Old(er) Testament King David (1 Chronicles 29: 28a) 

**the Old(er) Testament patriarch Job (Job 42: 17).

***My own recent blogpostings going back to Colin Powell early last November (though he died a couple weeks earlier while I was vacationing), and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.