For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 31, 2018

{To the tune of the theme song of the “One Day at a Time” TV show}

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This isn’t it. This isn’t it.

This isn’t life, the only one you get

Don’t go and have a ball.

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This isn’t it. This isn’t it.

Straight ahead with all reprints

You can’t be sure at all.

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So while you’re here Lynn just went and drew

Another change to what you knew

No century nor decade for you

One day at a time, One day at a time.

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So up on your feet. Up on your feet

To where Elly asks a lot of questions

John won’t answer one

He’ll just say something homespun

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One day at a time, one day at a time.

One day at a time, one day at a time.

One day at a time, one day at a time.

One day at a time, one day at a time

well said, John

Yeah, Elly. The calendar was invented by Man. A new year merely observes a full earth rotation around the sun rather than what you were thinking – a glimpse into the future, predictions, hopes, etc. Time and space do not have future or past – just a continuous repetition of rotations of the planet Earth and of the days and of the nights. The future and the past were also invented by Man to measure earth’s age, to establish timeline, to record history, etc. That is not wrong, but to think a new year is a predestination merely because the last digit is changing to the next number is just wishful thinking. Not to say wishful thinking is wrong either – to hope is human, and you are quite human, Elly, but John is practical, and I am with John.

I think of the things that came to be since the first time this strip ran and she asked that question. Treasure your ignorance, Elly. You don’t wanna know what’s ahead. It isn’t pretty.

“There is nothing new under the sun.”

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=LGzgPt9-_DY

New Year’s Reflections

In New York City people crowd/To watch the lighted ball descend/They count the seconds all as one/To mark another yearly end

As people cheer and dance about/We all reflect on what has passed/What has gone on in daily lives/Around this planet wide and vast

The miracles both great and small/New friendships made and old ones kept/The loved ones gone and still around/Joyous laughter, sadness wept

The little things that brought a smile/The great events in distant lands/Small victories both won and lost/The kisses, hugs and holding hands

Another year has come and gone/Another Auld Lang Syne is sung/The ball descends, the clock chimes 12/A brand new year has now begun

© “Amalthea Celebras” K.C. Fahel December 31, 1991

This is an old strip.. No way could anyone ever predicted that a fool like the trump could get elected in the US of A. Back when this strip was created we thought of Americans of being mostly intelligence.. sure some thought all Canadians lived in igloos and ate beaver for breakfast.. Guess we were wrong.. there are more dumb ones than we thought.

Truer words were never spoken, Lynn.

Happy New Year to all of those who enjoy this strip as much as I do. (And to everyone else, too.)

Happy New years to all!

This strip marks an end to the 1980s, which were the most prosperous time in North American history.

He could have said “For better or for worse”.

¡FELIZ AÑO NUEVO!

There was a strip where Elly was smug and self-righteous about being in the hippy-trippy movement and how the 21st Century will be one of long peace. Her rumination is interrupted by John frantically calling on the phone, asking her to turn on the TV, as the United States is under attack. When Elly does, her eyes bug out as it is 9/11.