Farewell Belghast

I didn't know him very well. Our paths crossed on twitter I think back in the day. We fell back into the same circles during the last big shift to mastodon a few years ago.

He was always kind and welcoming. I would always take him up on offers to join his guild in whatever MMO he was playing at the moment. I saw him a week or two ago in Guild Wars 2 on a Thursday night as we ran around in Orr. He wrote a nice blog post about TempusGameIt a few years ago, and used it a bunch for a while.

I thanked him for sharing his life journey a few weeks ago, and he told me that he did it so that others would know what they faced if they had to walk that path.

For no real reason, I listened to a recent episode of the podcast last night, and now, upon reflection, it is bittersweet. His voice is silenced in this realm, and we lost a good human, full of empathy, compassion, and faith in humanity.

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