Idle Theory Bus

Two Someones living in our Bus All Pictures Our Own

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To everyone on planet earth: we send you our warmest wishes. - Thank you for constantly inspiring us. For exploring with us, earth and land as well as mind and soul. You make our lives more meaningful, better-lived, more accountable. You give us hope. - Thank you for your light. We love you. We really do. 💛

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Today is the last day to order #orangeisoptimism in time for the holiday! - The hardcover book is 248 pages of zany fun from the road, including colorful photos, a hair-raising novella, and quote spreads that explore the philosophical nature of optimism. - Click the link below to order your copy today, shipping in time for Christmas! - https://orangeisoptimism.myshopify.com

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We're speeding south through Utah (as much as you can speed in a bus), red rocks and irrigated pastures whizzing outside the chilly glass of the window. Provo, Thistle, Manti, Panguitch. The towns are quiet under the knowing clouds, the ranches dotted with thousands of grazing sheep. - A pallet full of our book, #orangeisoptimism , will finally be delivered just south of Zion on Friday, and we are anxious to meet them. - Books are available for order in time for the holidays until tomorrow! You can snag a copy here www.orangeisoptimism.com 💛

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I can't get over the fact that magma-heated water bubbles from cracks of the earth. - Why didn't I learn that in school? - In school, they make it seem like the world's a sterile and known place, like there's no mystery, no wonder, nothing left to be discovered. - I call bullshit. Let them bring school out here. They'd see that there's wonder in a pool of water. They'd see that infinity comprises every drop.

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We just got word that our book #orangeisoptimism is off the press! - You can order your copy in time for the holidays, link below. They'll be shipping out later this week! - Kickstarter backers: we'll be updating you shortly; exciting things to come in the next few days. Thank you all for being here with us. 💛 - www.orangeisoptimism.com

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The sun's glaring over us like we've committed some sort of solar sin. - I know, saying it's sunny may seem like the most obvious statement in the world, but today the warmth, the blue in the sky, both are great epiphanies, on level with some of Galileo's most striking and affirmative ideas. - I kid you not, that mass of heat 🌞was missing for well over a week there and we were starting to lose it.

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This is all we own. What's inside this orange bus is it. We don't have a second residence. No storage unit of stuff. What you see is what there is. - When we hit the road years back, this didn't really seem glamorous to much of anyone we knew. Including ourselves. Friends who lived in their vans, even the ones who loved their lifestyle, were low key about it. After all, what is any of this but voluntary poverty? Who really thinks it's glamorous to live out of a vehicle? Family worried about our mental health. - It isn't really glamorous, not much of it, really, not the cold nights, not the cramped living space, not the unsure days when we're floating at the whim of the wind about every decision under the sun, including where we'll sleep that night. - But there's something to remember. We didn't begin living this way for glamour. We did it because it allows us to feel, to connect, to touch, because, really, in such a mad world, what the hell else were we going to do?

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We don't spend all season up north, in the snow, but we allow ourselves a good chunk of time to endure winter every year. No heat. The goal is to challenge ourselves. - Guess we're curious to discover our own breaking points. How much cold can we withstand? How low can the temperatures drop before we flee? 10 degrees? 5? -5? - This year, we've remained north longer than any other, pushing ourselves. Gaining strength. As a good friend says, cold builds character, and without character, well, kid, you're sunk.

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An optimist is the most radical thing you can be. - That's because it takes great power to see abundance where others don't. - Optimists look into the storm and tell the others the sun'll come back soon. They are often dismissed as fanciful fools. - But we optimists know better. The world we'd like to create already exists in our heads. Our inner world will extend into the outer world soon enough, regardless of what the pessimists say. - This is the central thesis statement behind our new book, #orangeisoptimism , available for order now - www.orangeisoptimism.com

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Earlier, I was convinced that the only perfect sound was that of snow falling onto the needles of the pines. - I guess it was perfect. I thought so at the time. - I stood there until the cold bit off three of my fingers and the wind tore a strip of skin from my upper lip. - That's when I realized that perfect isn't really all it's cracked up to be. 

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We made it maybe a mile down before we got stuck. - Jeep passed by. Driver smirked. He was absolutely correct. - A guy in a pickup was kind enough to pull us out. We told him he could laugh at us, and oh boy did he. His hoarse laughter highlighted the green tips of the trees like sunlight.

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This is how you greet a new day. - Arms out, expectant. - What is your intention for the day, universe? - We'll sit here on our dirt front porch until you whisper your secrets from the clouds.

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The light is clean this morning. - Seems last night's storm washed away all its impurities. - Wish it did the same for us. We roll on in the morning light, dirty and rumpled and shaking the sleep out of our foggy minds.

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You better believe there's magic spells running through the grain of these evergreens. - If I knew who cast them, I just might know the secrets of the universe. - But I don't, so I'll sit around in case the mystery sorcerer travels through. I've got some big questions ready for that wizard. #boostofspruce #treehugger

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I've been on the open road for four years now. Its dotted line rhythm is stuck in my head. - Do you think it's curiosity that draws us to the craziest things? Perhaps. - Or maybe it's a a belief that the world is always offering its best to us - I don't care if that sounds crazy. So what if maybe I am. I'll sing that dotted line song till they stick me underground to commune with the worms.

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When morning comes, we can barely believe we even closed our eyes. - The sun's shining at 6:30 am and the air's so crisp it might shatter in two. - We start the rituals that begin each morning, walking out into the grasses to feel them under our feet and winking to the universe, dozens of cheeky intentions in mind for today.

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We're up and at work early this morning, finalizing cartoons for our upcoming book. - I tell James that I'm leaking pieces of my brain out onto this paper. - He tells me that maybe that's about the only leak anyone with any sense would celebrate. - Thank you all for making this book possible. We've been leaking our brains in floods and the end is drawing near. #orangeisoptimism