Counting Our Blessings

You know how there are those people who always tell you to count your blessings? No matter what the situation may be, there's some silver lining, and we must be grateful for it? Even if the silver lining is, in fact, made of tin foil, and not even good tin foil at that, but some left over that had been covering a lasagna in the fridge - well, that can still be useful, can't it, and for that we must rejoice? How blessed we are, to be given all of these sow's ears to spin into silk gowns. As a ...