I received word late last night that one of the best friends I have ever known had died. I will resume my series of Christmas posts tomorrow – today my heart is simply too heavy to write.

Alas, poor Yorick!
I knew him, Horatio,
a fellow of infinite jest,
of most excellent fancy.
He hath bore me on his back a thousand times,
and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is!
My gorge rises at it.

Klaus Ferfort, 1944-2008.

Requiescat in pace.