She was just seventeen

[randy_byers]

Because she's at sea and can't stop me, I'm posting another picture of Sharee from the batch of scans I got from Andy Porter yesterday. All the pictures are from the 1980 Norwescon, and most of them are of her in costume, like the one I posted yesterday. This is one of two non-costume shots. It looks very '40s to me, and not just because it's black and white. The hair style and jacket look old-fashioned to me too.

It's hard to think about that era without thinking about what a stupid child I was at that age (an older man of nineteen), but I guess we all have to learn the hard way. And what did I learn? That I'll always be stupid about certain things! I just have a cognitive bias that way. The unknown known, as Michael Dobson put it in a recent Facebook post about risk analysis. Appropriately enough.

Comments

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Yes, and the tweed jacket adds to the vintage feel.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I imagine she's singing "The Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B".

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I agree that the hair style and tweed jacket add to the retro feel.

And, speaking of life-long lessons, I think one of my failings is "giving up too soon." Which I've just gotten ANOTHER lesson in. Hah!

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear it. Of course there's also the classic mistake of throwing good money after bad. There's just no winning!

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

The Three Laws of Thermodynamics...and other things, too:

"You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game."

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yes, it's all very '40s, except, perhaps, for the neckline on her shirt/blouse. And a great photo from any era!

Sharee looks very grown up for 17. Then again, most of us feel that way at that age. Heck, I got married when I was 19. "Only 2 months short of 20" was how I thought of it then. I knew it was young, but it didn't seem that young. Hah.

There are so many different kinds of intelligence, and so many different areas of competency, too.

Wow. How's that for a profound statement? Not.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realized you were so young when you got married. My mom was eighteen when she got married, but she had gotten a farmwife's training by then. My dad was 21. Was he ready to run a farm? I've never asked him. I was 23 before I even established any kind of financial independence from my parents.

It's certainly true that we can be smart about some things and stupid about others. It's also true that things like love tend to make fools out of most people at least somewhere along the way. That's one reason why I've long said that love is not sufficient for a functioning partnership. I guess that's the *other* thing I learned.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

We know what you mean.

Naw, it is only the badge that stops this from being passable as a shot from the 40s. The neckline's fine.

It only seems like you were stupid at 19. Really, I'm sure you were just fine.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Fine, I was just fine. But I got better.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Like a fine wine.