Stand as close as possible (with your hands
clasped behind you so the gallery guard doesn't start to panic you're going to touch the painting) and spend time studying the paint and brush marks, not the subject of the painting.
The sit - up test is timed, measuring how many reps you can complete in 60 seconds using proper form: a partner stands on your feet; your hands are
clasped behind your neck, and your elbows touch or move past your knees with every rep.
Some people have pastors who explain these things but I don't know why she sits alone amidst the bodies that the water left
behind — bodies of houses, bodies of cars, bodies of boats, bodies of people — knees bent, arms
clasped beneath bare thighs, held together by the stiff embrace of a sob, or why the earth shook, or why the water came, or why she has taken off her boots, or why she sits alone amidst the bodies that the water left
behind; I only know that I don't want a pastor who explains these things.