Day 509: open sesame

Showing special respect to elders is an Oriental shibboleth. If you don't know the new shibboleth, you can't get past our guard.

Word of the day
shibboleth: a custom or phrase distinctive of a particular group, class, etc; a password or watchword

Quote of the day
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson