The next and final installment of my ‘vintage’ SF collection watch is not yet ready, but it will be here soon.

The last couple of weeks have been rough ones for fans of various arts. We lost David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Lemmy (whose art is unknown to me as that is not my music) and Natalie Cole.

Personally celebrity deaths don’t impact me emotionally. While the art that they produced can be evocative and inspiring because they remain in fact strangers to me- the art is not the artist – I am not one to grieve their passing. However that is not so for all people.

It’s touching to see the profile pictures change, the videos posted, the toughing memories recounted, and inspiration shared. Art matters and if the loss of the artist is a source of grief for you, then grieve in all the way that your heart demands.

To those who snidely and with false wisdom dismiss such public displays of loss I say it is none of your business. Just as I do with innumerable that I don’t agree with, scroll on past t something else. There’s no one made happier or wiser by such comments. It adds nothing to the world escape another example of fallacy on conflating wisdom with cynicism.