material:

• Essential Art House Films *
• 23 Films by Jean Painlevé *
• Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales *
• Penguin Great Ideas Series *
• Paintings in Proust *
• Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids *
• a pair of Valenki and Wellingtons
• Velvet Doc Martens
• Diptyque perfume and candles
• Lipstick Queen Medieval lipstick
• dresses with Peter Pan collars
• beautiful, delicate lingerie (and the confidence to wear it)
• vintage glasses frames
• cameo rings and brooches
• old scrimshaw boxes
• Urania's Mirror constellation cards
• a nice Ouija board
• my very own darkroom
• more space to house my ever-expanding library of books
• an organic vegetable garden
• an adorable, but practical bike
• subscription to The Paris Review
• Kokeshi dolls
• Mason Pearson hairbrushes and combs

immaterial, maybe impossible:

• a clean bill of health
• neater handwriting
• a beautiful singing voice and great musical ability
• a world-class education
• to be involved without attachment
• to succumb to wanderlust
• to be happy in love
• to not be afraid of intimacy
• illumination
• joy in the task of everything
• גם זה לטובה