Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 17, 2023

Wait, this was about things that go Whizz in the night?

Made me think of this:

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;

But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,

When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!

For the whole poem: https://allpoetry.Com/The-Ballad-Of-East-And-West

And for an explanation: https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_East_and_West

Yeah! It happens around midnight. Whizzz… another day gone…

Narrator?

The years, and now the decades, keep going by faster and faster.

For a moment I thought that it referred to how often a senior might have to get up during the night.

Our wedding anniversary is on the winter solstice. We like to think our marriage brings light back to the world.

I hope the whizz is not coming from Ludwig. They’ll need to change the sheets.

The Moody Blues did a song titled 22,000 Days, referring to the average length of our stay on Earth. The actual number is closer to 27,900 days (76 years) but the outcome is the same. My life insurance is betting me almost 9:1 I will live to be 80 years old… another 9 years.

Arlo’s going to need to whizz soon.

And the more years that pass, the quicker the whizz. As in almost POOF! Where did it all go-so soon. RiP Jimmy Buffett: “I can see the day when my hair’s full grayAnd I finally disappear” One Particular Harbor . . .

Time goes by in the blink of an eye.

“Do not go gentle into that good night…”

(Just more often) ☺

The Days Facing The Days of their lives

Actuually it is Janis who has to “whiz” during the night. Most women do. lol

Time waits for no man, but man can make time…

You are all missing the point of this comic! It’s very poignant, about the passage of time, and how two old people are lying awake in bed at night hearing it go by and wondering how much more of it they have left.

I have seen Christmas decorations already. Talk about whizzing by.

i go whizz a couple of times a night

Let’s count our blessing folks, night trips and all.

Reminds me of that Pixar short “Night and Day.” Or something like that.

The original Equinauts strip was September 22, 2019. GoComics won’t let me do a link.

I need to absorb this arc’s information to digest the meaning.

September 23, 2023 equinox