Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough

Today has been a day.

When I arrived back from Berlin last week I received a phone call from my close friend and colleague with whom I had been traveling. He was calling to let me know the very sad news that Professor Bill Scott, chairman of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and President of the RSA had passed away the previous evening, suddenly after a very short illness.

Today was Bill's life celebration. I knew Bill from being a student at Edinburgh College of Art and more recently as a colleague at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop where over a number of years I was a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Artistic Programme Committee. I feel very fortunate to have been able to have worked with Bill and to have shared valuable conversations with him, and today, like many others more I feel disbelief and utter sadness that he is gone. It is rare to meet someone like Bill - he inspired and encouraged many and was a great artist who always had his consideration of and interest in others at the forefront of his being.

Bill's children, friends and colleagues all gave amazing speeches today and the words that reoccurred over and over included: generous, modest, funny, curious, interested, very interested, loved and adored, traveler, philosopher and on and on and on. This evening I am thinking of his family and close friends who must be hurting very very much.