It ain’t all waiting on you.

One of my favorite movies of all time is the Cohen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. So many great characters, so many great scenes. But perhaps my favorite scene of all time in a any movie is one that doesn’t get the headlines. It’s not the famous “Call It” scene with Javier Bardem, but rather the quiet scene between two brothers played by Tommy Lee Jones and Barry Corbin near the end of the movie. Corbin’s character, an old sheriff who has been paralyzed by a criminal, has the best lines in the movie in his one scene. Here are two of my favorites I think about from time to time:

“All the the time you spend tryin’ to get back what’s been took from you there’s more going out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it”

“What you got ain’t nothing new…Ain’t all waiting on you, that’s vanity.”

I have been preparing to build this shop and take these steps for so many years in the back of my mind, and now so many months of actual grunt work of designing and building items, then photographing them just so, followed by website construction, web payment set-up, the list goes on. In my mind I had to wait until it was all perfect, a flawless store with only the best, perfect things. Hundreds of them. This thinking has held me back before. It’s held back a lot of people from doing what they truly want to do. But what I got ain’t nothing new. It’s all certainly not waiting on me. It’s time to open.