Thirty-three observations about life. (13/13)

32. Life involves both whispering and hollering, often to the same people.

33. Life is when you’re not looking.

Thirty-three observations about life. (12/13)

30. Life is when the tag inside your shirt is scratchy but you ignore it.

31. Life is how it good it feels to come inside and stand by the fire during the winter and how good it feels to go outside and jump in the water during the summer.

Thirty-three observations about life. (11/13)

28. Life knows what you did.

29. Life includes planets like this one where little bunny rabbits hop around in meadows that grow on rafts made of rock that are floating on giant pools of molten metal.

Thirty-three observations about life. (10/13)

26. Life is like a game of musical chairs but the chairs are made of papier-mâché and some of them are on fire a little.

27. Life picks up the “Hello My Name Is” sticker and writes its name in fancy script as if it’s happy to be there.

Thirty-three observations about life. (9/13)

24. Life includes planets like this one where apes wear shoes and dig basements and fly in hot air balloons.

25. Life involves encouraging generation after generation of children to play “Hot Cross Buns” on plastic recorders.

Thirty-three observations about life. (8/13)

21. Life involves soldiers standing post and either nothing happens or something happens.

22. Life borrows stuff from you and never intends to return it.

23. Life often involves poking the campfire with a really good stick.

Thirty-three observations about life. (7/13)

19. Life is a series of movies in which there is a close-up of some text we are supposed to read but it’s too small and too shaky and too fast and so to hell with it, whatever.

20. Life is waking up and doing stuff until we can go to sleep again.

Thirty-three observations about life. (6/13)

16. Life doesn’t rhyme but it just sort of vibes to the beat.

17. Life isn’t fair, and doesn’t pretend to be.

18. Life is trying to remember why people used to use so much ammonia and now hardly anyone even talks about ammonia anymore.

Thirty-three observations about life. (5/13)

13. Life is a long process of moving laundry from one room to another until we die.

14. Life is a series of hugs and kisses of a bewildering range of kinds, types, and purposes.

15. Life involves long stretches of not saying anything.

Thirty-three observations about life. (4/13)

11. Life has its little secrets.

12. Life includes planets like this one that has improbable objects like hymnals and fishing poles and rhubarb pie and wheelchairs and paper clips that are shaped kind of like hearts.

Thirty-three observations about life. (3/13)

8. Life is moments when someone you love smiled at you.

9. Life is what you make of it or what it makes of you or some awkward compromise thereof.

10. Life is a chemical chain reaction that often involves hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon.

Thirty-three observations about life. (2/13)

4. Life is looking for your keys again.

5. Life is feeling alive when we listen to songs by musicians who are now dead.

6. Life is a series of burps that remind us of what we ate.

7. Life wonders if it should get bangs, and it wonders this a lot.

Hmm. I agree it doesn't snap, which is surprising because it is such a perverse image: The President happy that the White House has been completely gilded over and that the religious icon has been topped with a national-cum-political icon. No one celebrates with him and he seems unaware of it.

Ha! Well, I did try...