raisons d'être:

An Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close inspired list!

• Books
  
• "la possibilité de créer"
• Beauty, though that covers nearly everything on this list
  
• Love, since I'm being obvious
  
• Mary, Paul, Arthur, Sassy, and Sary
  
• Music
  
• Teachers
  
• My creek
• Sharing Milkshakes
  
• God, whoever He is
• My best friend, Hallie
  
• My Micah
• People
• Empty notebooks
• Full notebooks
  
• Mrs. Tucker. my favorite Sunday school teacher
  
• The ocean
• Travel
• Victoria Dawn Tesh
  
• The plays of Tennessee Williams
  
• Trips to Goodwill with Hallie
  
• North Carolina
• My 8th grade English teacher
  
• Anything that's warm: sunshine, mittens, blankets, people
  
• Cream puffs
• Oxford commas
  
• Going for rides in Baby Blue
• Waiting at stoplights in Baby Blue :)
  
• Banjos
  
• Humanism
• Larry, my favorite bus driver
• His one tooth
• Woody Allen movies
  
• The Aristocats
• Smiley strangers
• Searching for books at thrift stores with Micah
  
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Shoals Elementary School
  
• Death
• Poetry
  
• All-nighters
• The National's "Alligator"
  
• Future combined book collections
  
• My mother