Still Walking 2008

There’s this bittersweet tradition—visiting the elderly. Here, everyone who’s scattered to different homes will gather and pay their respects to those who can no longer come. Here, people will show themselves and observe others. Here, you can boast about your successes and sympathize with others’ losses. You can tell an inspired lie about something so convincingly that it becomes the truth. You can shyly keep silent about something else, so as to forgive and forget it forever. You’ll learn many interesting things about your family, sometimes even when you don’t want to. And when the old house is filled with the tender magic of the family hearth, some truly unusual guests may appear.