Every silver lining has a cloud.

Reframing within Proverbs

For Condor web site. Many proverbs seem to convey wisdom because they help people reframe and adjust to life’s predicaments. Positive reframes, such as Every cloud has a silver lining, often draw positive implications from adverse circumstances (cf., “gain frames,” “positive reappraisals,” “emotion-focused coping”, “dispositional optimism”). In contrast, negative reframes, such as All that glit...

Doing better with what we have--key to successful reform. Waste is silver lining in black economic cloud.

Quarterly Retrospect

ness or imperfectness of several of the most important crops, the dearness of food, the disturbances in the labour market, and the suffei*ings in several localities arising from this source, altogether would have formed a sad and depressing picture, from which little consolation could have been obtained. When, however, we turn from the vague ideas formed from general observatio n to the precise...

Reframing and Wisdom within Proverbs

Many proverbs seem to convey wisdom because they help people to reframe life’s predicaments. Positive reframes, such as Every cloud has a silver lining, often draw positive implications from adverse circumstances (cf. “positive reappraisals,” “gain frames”). In contrast, negative reframes, such as All that glitters is not gold, provide helpful warnings about difficult situations, and therefore ...

Silver lining in the dark cloud of aneurysm disease.

An ascending aortic aneurysm is a common and very much unwelcome diagnosis that has never been associated with anything positive. We believe, however, that there actually is a silver lining to this disease: aortic root and ascending aortic aneurysms actually protect against atherosclerosis. We have found that patients with ascending aneurysms have both decreased arterial calcification and carot...