Optimism can be elusive, especially with all the world's worries and uncertainties all around us.  Why has this happened to me?  How will I make it through this?  What unforeseen thing lies ahead?  

Mark Sanborn, author and motivational speaker, brings us a well known allegory about perpetual optimism and its value to our lives.  He urges to find the positive even amid heaps of undesirable refuse.