it sounds wonderful! i really must try and get there.

i just think pronouncing a lifetime like Owen's a failure is SO indicative of what is wrong with our society, its the Thatcher's shopping trolley syndrome. If something is threepence cheaper this week - hang it! we'll call the more expensive provider a failure.

and so we throw away individuals, communities, whole industries, artforms....just discard them as commercial failures.

as Oscar Wilde said - we know the price of everything and the value of nothing.