I love your drawings, your art, your doodles on the side of notes
I also love your handwriting
I love how you appreciate nature: flowers and dogs and babies, and draw my attention to them
I love that you come to church with me, even if it's not a tradition embedded in you
I love that you make an effort to stay in touch with your mom and dad (and that you invite me to join)
I love when you put yourself out there, even if it's uncomfortable, even if it's just for me. I never care how bad you think you are; hearing you sing and watching you dance brings me such joy
I love that you love Notion as much as I do
I love warming my hands on you, your protests as we negotiate a mutually acceptable arrangement
I love marching down the hall with my hands on your shoulders
I can love when you push me to try new things that I'd never have done on my own: weed, gymnastics, dyeing my hair
I love that we climb trees together
I love your raw athleticism, the way you delight in moving your body and put in work to maintain it
I love that you share music and movies with me, while I share books and blog posts with you
I love our mutual challenges, starving ourselves for Lent, giving up sex before marriage
I love cooking together, the process of tuning our food until it's better for our palates than what a restaurant would serve, making a giant pot of curry or a pot pie from scratch
I love the times we spent apart, because they make the time we spend together all the more sweeter
I love writing for you, whether it be lists like this, or letters, or even just a quick Messenger ping to try to get you to smile
and I love reading what you've written, a peek into your innermost thoughts that you're too embarrassed to say outright
I love it when we tease each other, when we make fun of our mutual faults (your drug caffeine addiction, my inability to remember anything)
I love scrolling through my photos of you, allowing me to relive our time together in the span of minutes
I love your crooked tooth
I love that we get to spend the rest of our lives together