Sometimes You Know-Sometimes You Don’t

Photo of Jim Sinclair on his 80th birthday
Photo credit: Bill Noble

I knew it was the crux. It had taken two days to get here, in some ways much longer. I was 60 ft out from Chris, between us was a tied-off knife blade, a small part of it into the incipient crack. The rest of its length protruded out and down, but it would have to do. It was like walking down Granville Street with every neon sign selling the same message . . . “It won’t hold a fall.”