"Will the future ever arrive?...Should

we continue to look upwards? Is the

light we can see in the sky one of those

which will presently be extinguished?

The Ideal is terrifying, to behold, lost

as it is in the depths, small, isolated,

a pin-point, brilliant but threatened

on all sides, by the dark forces that

surround it; nevertheless, no more

in danger than a star in the jaws of the

clouds."

Victor Hugo

Tim and I saw Les Miserables last night at the National Theatre. The performance was absolutely extroidonary...a wonderful story of sacrifice, love, forgiveness and mercy.