Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.

Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.