"It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season -- like all the other seasons -- is a good time not only to tell stories about miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them." --Lemony Snicket in The Lump of Coal
