At a loss for words

As the title says, I am at a loss for words.  I found out a couple of days ago that Will McLean, Galleron de Cresy, was very ill.  Yesterday I found out his battle with cancer had taken a turn for the worse and he was home and in hospice care.  Well... home and in hospice care AND with plans to go to a local event and portray a convalescent.  Probably with the same thoughtfulness and dedication to historical accuracy and inventiveness that he brought to pretty much everything I saw him do.

Not that I ever got to see him in person.  Not that I'm aware of.  I knew of him through the internet.  He introduced me to the idea of commonplace books.  To the ideas behind the forms of tournament combat.  To the fun of historical recreation.  And I know he had similar, and greater, effects on many other people.

The saying is that a man's not gone while people still speak his name.  Will McLean will be around for a very long time.  God keep him and comfort his.