Counting my blessings

Sometimes of course, the glass seems half empty - but I do sometimes (though maybe not often enough) remember to be grateful for the incredible good fortune that has enabled me to support myself as a self-employed ex-pat for the past nine years.

I think that there will always be work enough for people like me while people continue to write sentences like this: "Sensibilized through recently published reports of all leading business consultancy firms such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Ernst & Young etc. many large scale global players such as Walmart, Nestlé, Unilever, Starbucks, Tesco, Carrefour, Rewe not only discovered that more and more consumers start to care about the environmental and social footprint of a product but realized that business as usual, conventional agricultural practices already on short-term lead to a severe soil and water scarcity and with it present a risk to resource and commodity security."

Its easy to pick the general picture but there are some many ideas in this one sentence that its like looking at a Picasso painting while under the influence of hallucingens. (I'm employing a theoretical metaphor here of course).