Godspeed, Gordon

This morning I was watching Gordon White’s tribute to the recently-departed Peter Carroll. I’ve never read any of Carroll’s books and I doubt I ever will. I was watching for the same reason I read or watched nearly everything Gordon produced: you never knew when he would drop some jewel of knowledge or practice. He ended the video with a prayer that Carroll would be seated as an ancestor of practice. I switched over to my email app and saw an “Announcement” email from Gordon’s Rune Soup community timestamped just moments before. Gordon had died while travelling in Peru. Shock doesn’t begin to describe it. I would guess he’s about my age (though he will always be remembered as forever 27 😉) and he was so full of plans for new work and ideas for the community. Everyone here knows about the influence Wendell Berry has had on my life. I haven’t talked as much about Gordon–mostly because I never imagined I’d be talking about his work in the past tense for many years to come. Also because…