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title: "The Beauty of a List"
description: "There is something about a list that I am attracted to. I make a lot of lists, grocery lists, to do lists, books I want to read lists, movies I want to watch lists. Those are the banal lists that..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2005/06/30/the-beauty-of-a-list/
date: 2005-06-30
modified: 2005-06-30
author: "Monique"
type: post
lang: en
---

# The Beauty of a List

There is something about a list that I am attracted to. I make a lot of lists, grocery lists, to do lists, books I want to read lists, movies I want to watch lists. Those are the banal lists that keep me going through the day, but the truly beautiful lists are the ones that draw me in, make me want to copy them down, make me laugh. Dave Letterman’s lists are an example but any top 10 list would do.

I’m not alone. There are all sorts of books of lists published: lists of quotations, trivia lists. Dictionaries are the ultimate lists.

Here’s the list I was drawn to yesterday:

Code blue: cardiac arrest

Code white: aggressive violent act

Code red: fire/smoke

Code yellow: missing patient

Code brown: hazardous spill

Code black: bomb threat

Code green: evacuation

Code orange: disaster/mass casuality

… code “can you guess where I was yesterday?”

Any other great lists out there?