Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 21, 2024

Slow and inevitable Claudication

aren’t you already, Claude?

Claude, by the time life conforms to your way of thinking, the sun will have gone nova.

He’s right, I’m 86 and life didn’t conform to my thinking I’m rich.

He appears to have straightened up having completed his very first toe touch (with knees slightly bent).

Good morning Balladeers!

I subscribe to the Claude way of thinking! And I’ve got the scratches to prove it!

(¬_¬)

Life will never conform to your way of thinking.

Or dust.. and I think more likely old dust.

Stealing Dry and Dusty’s moniker for the denizens of Ballard Street: “Balladeers” see conformity as a foreign concept.

The Sun will be very old by then.

…or really dead!

More probably dead, or in another Mayan Cycle.

Claude won’t live that long with his weight.

Good evening, Ballard Dears!

Patience, Claude, patience. You know you’re right!

Or, perhaps really dead.