Granted, as silver linings go this may be scant consolation, but the decline and demise of newspapers seems to be ushering in a raft of good novels by journalists who miss the old ink and newsprint.
Yet, in contrast to the lives of many of our patients, those simple things we take for granted are like silver and gold, and probably are therapies as valuable to the wounded soul as antibiotics to the sick body.
Mr. Bryant, the Philadelphia pianist, has been consistently excellent for so long that he is sometimes taken for granted; his percussive, Horace Silver-type tunes and polished swing still sound superior.
Hereford changes the lions from gold to silver, and in the 17th century was granted a blue border charged with silver saltires in allusion to its siege by a Scottish army during the English Civil War.
Granted, some, such as Nate Silver's 538 website, flagged up the risk of an upset in key swing states, but even he had downgraded expectations of a Trump win to less than 30% on the eve of polling.
Mr Chávez has been out of the country for weeks, but Elías Jaua, the vice-president, has rejected calls to be sworn in as interim president during his absence.The outgoing government of Alan García in Peru rescinded a silver-mining concession granted to a Canadian company.
"A talent like Michelle's is easy to take for granted," said Paul Wylie, the 1992 Olympic silver medalist.
That case, brought by Marilyn E.S. Hansen in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court, seeks to overturn the permit granted in November 2015 to the South Silver Shoals development.
Senator Jones felt compelled to spend five minutes (granted by the gold side), stating that the silver issue crossed sectional lines.
Leyva, however, did not take this opportunity for granted and delivered in great fashion by winning two silver medals in parallel and horizontal bars.
