Words for a Departed Wizard

Last month, my friend Gordon White set sail for the Undying Lands. Yesterday was his birthday. I spent it thinking about him, writing this, and remembering him. A Recent DreamThe Cringey WizardThe Visitor at the FarmSmall ApocalypsesNews of the DepartureStart Select Reset 📑This is only the second time I have written words for the dead on here. The first was for Eriol, another member of the Rune Soup community, whose death Gordon announced to us at the end of 2019. I didn’t really know what to say then, or how to say it, and I do not know what to say now.I heard the news just like everybody else on the 13th of May. And I’m not going to lie, it sent me spiralling for weeks. Someone I had known and spoken to almost every single day for a quarter of my life was gone. During that first week, I read the immense outpouring of grief, gratitude and inspiration from people whose lives he had touched, including beautiful tributes from Peter at Scarlet Imprint, JDO and Avalon Cameron.I cannot…