paperwhite peony

I’m heading out to Arizona next week EEEEE! While there, I’m rastlin’ a little storage unit I’ve had some goodies in for awhile. These are the few things I’m hoping to find a new home for. Each piece is in excellent condition. Please let me know if you’re interested!

Hemnes Oak Dresser (Ikea) $50 —

Width: 43 1/4 “
Depth: 20 1/8 “
Height: 38 1/4 “

White Country Lane Dresser (Target) $50 —

[does not include family photos or what looks like an attachable mirror haha]

Twin Bed FRAME (Ikea) $45 —

Length: 78 “
Width: 40 1/2 “
Height: 15 3/8”

“It’s like this when you live a story: The first part happens fast. You throw yourself into the narrative, and you’re finally out in the water; the shore is pushing off behind you and the trees are getting smaller. The distant shore doesn’t seem so far, and you can feel the resolution coming, the feeling of getting out of your boat and walking the distant beach. You think the thing is going to happen fast, that you’ll paddle for a bit and arrive on the other side by lunch. But the truth is, it isn’t going to be over soon.

The reward you get from a story is always less than you thought it would be, and the work is harder than you imagined. The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It’s about your character getting molded in the hard work of the middle. At some point the shore behind you stops getting smaller, and you paddle and wonder why the same strokes that used to move you now only rock the boat…

The shore you left is just as distant, and there is no going back; there is only the decision to paddle in place or stop, slide out of the hatch, and sink into the sea. Maybe there’s another story at the bottom of the sea. Maybe you don’t have to be in this story anymore.”

“A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” by: Donald Miller

“I read a book a couple of years ago by Steve Pressfield called The War of Art. The book is about writing, about the process of getting words onto an empty page. Pressfield said a writer has to sit down every day and write, regardless of how he feels. He said you can sit around and wait for inspiration to come, but you’ll never finish your book that way. “The muse honors the working stiff,” Pressfield says. He also says that every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when trying to create something good. He says resistance, a kind of feeling that comes against you when you point toward a distant horizon, is a sure sign that you are supposed to do the thing in the first place. The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be, Pressfield believes.”

“A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” by: Donald Miller

“Here’s the truth about telling stories with your life. It’s going to sound like a good idea, and you are going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you’re not going to want to do it. It’s like that with writing books, and it’s like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.”

“A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” by: Donald Miller