At your best, you are steady, reliable, no fuss. You play your role and trust others to play theirs. If you've given your word, you keep it — even when it costs you.

What matters is strong precisely because we all keep it strong — relationships, institutions, the best of a culture. We grow up in the tradition; it's what we all silently know. You know your place, and so do others — and that's how the walls hold.

People count on you to be there. To remember what matters. To keep the thing running that everyone else assumes is someone else's job. We hold the home base together — and we don't let anyone stray too far.