Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from it more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum. (John Updike, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, 1989, Ch. 6)
Friday, October 23, 2009
Our First Apartment
WOW!! Pretty exciting image, eh? Right after I left active Naval duty and settled in Philadelphia, this is what our apartment looked like in 1972. We made quite a cozy place of this third-floor walk-up, before events led us onward into the future. I'm posting this photo only to test a new Epson Perfection V300 photo scanner, which is about as close as I ever intend to come to the digital claptrap which seems to be all the rage nowadays. Monochrome Forever!
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2 comments:
Oh, you were rich got a furnished apartment!
Jim
Yeah. We were just starting out as a couple, and we didn't have much. Didn't need much, either. On even-numbered days, she got to sit in the chair; on odd-numbered days, she got to sit in it, too. Eventually, this led to divorce, even though we had plenty of chairs to sit in when that happened.
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