While it is always sad to hear the news of anyone's passing, rarely do celebrity deaths have much of an impact on me. But this one is a real gut punch. Just as DeForest Kelley's passing many years ago was, as well.
Some people, even though we will never know them personally, just feel woven into the fabric of our lives, and when they go the loss is as surely felt as if you had lost a friend. And that's what Leonard Nimoy's passing is to me. It is a loss that I am truly, genuinely, and deeply saddened by.