Tawny McVay || Bus + Homestead Life(@sincewewokeup) 인스타그램 상세 프로필 분석: 팔로워 759,857, 참여율 18.5%

Our story… • Hi my name is Tawny, and this is my home, a school bus named Oliver. • For five years I lived and traveled in this bus, and together we’ve been over quite a few roads, all the way from Alaska down to Mexico. • Between travels we had a home base in Montana, a small homestead we shared with family where we kept chickens and goats. • Last year we finally found a place that made us want to settle for good, so we packed up all those chickens and goats in a cargo van, and together with the bus we caravanned down to the Midwest, where we purchased ten acres of land in beautiful Missouri. • This valley is our dream, an abundant forest teeming with wildlife and plants and mushrooms, with a pond and streams flowing through it, and trees hundreds of years old. • There were a few existing structures, but the last year was one of solid work building the foundations of our new homestead, mostly from scratch. • First up were barns and fencing for all our animals, which was good because we had quite a few new faces join us along the way over the last year. • Then as spring arrived we turned our attention to building a greenhouse and garden, creating compost and water systems, and planting an orchard to supply as much of our own food as we possibly can. • We rounded out our first year by adding additional living space to Oliver in the form of a greenhouse style bathhouse with a tub and shower supplied by the natural spring, and an outdoor living area so we can continue to live outdoors as much as possible even though we aren’t traveling now. • We had a lot of amazing views out of these little bus windows during our travels, but its a different kind of joy now when I look out in the mornings and realize I, and Oliver, are finally home.

I started a YouTube. • I show a lot of my outer world on this page - the school bus l've called home for almost seven years, the travels it took me on for the first five, the piece of forest we finally settled in and the homestead we're building here. And I enjoy it, sharing these pieces of my life in hopes they bring joy or inspiration or simply a peaceful moment to your day. • But I'd like to share more of my inner world - my writing and day to day life, the pieces of it that don't fit neatly in a 90 second reel. It's been brewing for quite some time, this urge to allow space for more to be seen, and finally, I've consciously created it, in the form of a YouTube channel to bridge Since We Woke Up and my personal page, where a more detailed and complex story can unfold. • I'd originally planned a more formal introduction to this new channel, explaining the background and laying a foundation, but this is what came out instead, and honestly, nothing I can script will be a more accurate depiction than this visual representation of that inner and behind the scenes world, a glimpse at a more feral and raw and unfiltered side of myself, the one ready to come fully forward and show her teeth. • This page will still hold all the parts of my life that bring me joy, but if you'd like to meet the person behind the account more fully, you'll find her dancing in the woods and wearing her heart on her sleeve on my personal page here and the linked YouTube channel. • First video drops next week. I’ll meet you in the woods Wednesday at noon CST 🌿

On this week’s episode of finding joy in tiny things, we finally have a completed room in the tiny home! • Building this guest house has been a series of starts and stops as other work and life and setbacks came up through the summer and fall, but finally, we have a bathroom, and it’s as beautiful as I hoped it would be. • We loved our old concrete wet room style shower in the bus so much we decided to use the same medium again, this time in white. It has a hundred gallon tank that can be filled or directly hooked to our spring system and a Cuddy Lite @compocloset composting toilet to keep it stylishly off-grid. • This project is drawing to a close just in time, as spring approaches and the busyness of getting seeds in the ground and eagerly awaiting the arrival of the first goat kids begins - in a few short weeks, this place will be a flurry of activity! #tinyhome #bathroomgoals #homesteadlife

“It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I’m tired of being a piece in their Games.” • Seeds of division and hate bear ugly and sour fruit. I’m not interested in planting more. • Posting last year about horrors unfolding a world away, and now the last few weeks as alarm bells sound much closer to home, my feelings and message have remained the same - we can do better. I still believe this, especially now, as so many recognize the real issues in the world have nothing to do with the neighbors we’ve been conditioned to point fingers at and everything to do with the people giving us reasons to so we don’t pause to look at them more closely and ask why. • I see that change happening. See more and more people starting to wake up and look toward the real issues instead of the engineered ones the people at the top keep manufacturing, the false narratives they peddle to deepen divides while they hide what happens on islands and behind closed doors where wealth and power are hoarded and the next plan to make us hate each other is orchestrated. • The person also trying to raise their family in safety and worrying about how expensive groceries have become and wishing they had more time to read a book or try their hand at painting isn’t your enemy. I promise you. • Broken and outdated systems and institutions, and the people who build and operate and profit from and support them, are the real villain in this story, the one we are collectively writing in real time right now. The important question to ask yourself is what part do you want to play and be remembered for, when these current events become the history future generations learn? You get to choose your role, who you’re standing beside and behind and in front of. • Choose wisely friends. • And while you’re at it - look out for your neighbors, plant a garden, read books, create something with your own two hands, and don’t forget how beautiful this world around us is, even on the hard days. #knittinglove #readmore

This isn’t about politics. This is about humanity, and the parts of ourselves we sacrifice when we stop seeing ourselves in the face of another. We are all made of the same bones and dreams, the same heartbeats and hopes. • And that grief? It’s evidence your humanity remains friend. Feel it. Hold it. Let it inspire action. Believe the love that inspired it can change the world, and maybe, together, we will.

“There are days I lose hope in us. Days I’m so sickened by the disgusting mess of human behavior rooted in greed and ignorance and hatred I want to check out of it altogether. • And who could blame any one of us for this most basic survival instinct, to run for cover and hide from what feels like a daily apocalypse of lost faith in this most basic ethos - our humanity? • Do any of us want to feel this constant chaos? The knowledge of an entire broken world at our fingertips, filtered only by bias and no sure truth, while we continue forward daily paying bills and taking out the trash and finding joy where we can as if our lives depend on it, because we know others’ absolutely do rely on us continuing to care, that our collective caring (warring with our collective burnout) is all that holds some invisible shoreline of this fading humanity from completely washing away in a tide of apathy and despair and hopelessness? • I will not allow my heart to harden, even against those who hold hatred in theirs. I will not let the weary edges of my sanity fray into apathetic silence and inaction. • I will not forget this human soul inside this human body is the same spark that ignites and connects us all, that the lines between us are as imaginary as the false flags they wave to keep us divided and fighting each other instead of the true threats to life and liberty and the pursuit of the same happiness we all yearn toward. • And I will not lose hope in us, in any of us. I will continue to believe, until my last breath, that every mind and heart can change. That a better world can rise from the ashes of a burned one. That the best in us will prevail, that we will evolve past and through this, another history we will hold close with promises not to repeat it until the next time it’s forgotten and we’re forced to rise again. • And we will rise. We must.” • These words, written last summer, are even more true today. Hear the full piece at the linked reel.

My inner world feels heavy tonight, a reflection of what I see mirrored in the hearts of those around me as we witness this one we share, where so many are struggling, where injustice and division are commonplace, where the balance of living our own lives within it feels both overwhelming and not enough all at once. • So tonight, I’m simply sharing this collection of what brings me joy. If your heart needs a moment of peace, a reminder of what is beautiful and pure and right in the world - may this reach you 💕

Every year, I update this post meant to answer our most frequently asked questions to include what the year we’re leaving behind added to the story. • This year we continued building here in the valley, added some new faces, and built a tiny guest home to welcome friends and family. This was also a pretty big year for me personally, and I decided to create a personal page to share the behind the scenes stuff that doesn’t make it to this page, which I plan to start posting to this month. • The last ten years have held both blessings and heartache, but when I look back at the decade of work and dreams and risks and hard decisions and sheer dumb luck that led us here - I’d do it all again, to arrive back in this spot 💕

Every year I repost this, my favorite video from five years on the road as a little reminder - dreams really can come true friends. Find yours and chase it ✨

Two Years with Yul ✨ • If you’ve been around, you know this wee goat’s story. Born on the longest and coldest night of the year, rejected by his mother, and too weak to stand or nurse, this little solstice man entered the world and promptly turned mine upside down when the circumstances of his birth thrust me into the role of goat mom. • Two years later he’s a thriving, healthy member of the herd - and still an absolute mama’s boy. • Happy Birthday Yuli Patchouli, my buddy mans. When I cuddled you close to my heart that first night, I had no idea how deeply you would become embedded in it. I love you, little Julbock 💕

AD I🔋☀️This time of year, we get a ton of questions about homestead life in the winter, especially where the animals are concerned. • For two years, we went without power at the barn, dragging a power station back and forth to charge at the bus. This year, we finally installed a @renogyofficial ShadowFlux panel on the roof of the barn to give us a permanent source of power. This panel is perfect for winter; unlike most panels that lose output as soon as shade hits, ShadowFlux keeps generating power even under heavy shading. It’s built for higher efficiency and stronger performance, with long-term reliability backed by an amazing warranty. • Get the Renogy Shadowflux panel for yourself through the link in my bio! . . . . . #renogy #shadowflux #renogysolar

I always take extra joy in reading a book written by someone I also love following online. While I got lost in many books this year, these were my top five authored by people who also contribute to the online world in ways I admire. • 1. A Hymn to Human Beauty by @samuel.hurley - a follow up to last year’s Anthem For the Dreaming Lost, this book of short stories and poems explores what it means to be human in our modern world, touching on themes like AI, connection, finding beauty and romanticism in our daily lives, and human resilience. • 2. Original Sin is a Lie by @bobpeck - a profound look at the spectrum of spirituality and mystic wisdom and the perennial truths found embedded in all. Bob blends humor, scripture, advice from gurus from all walks, and personal anecdotes to create a beautiful path away from dogma and toward a more lasting universal truth. • 3. Make Believe by @thedailyvictorian - a collection of poems for hoping again, this sweet book reads like a best friend sitting across the table at the coffee shop telling you everything you needed to hear today. Victoria will have you believing life really is beautiful, even on hard days. • 4. Weathering by @ruthallen.geotherapist - this book, no pun intended, grounded me. Geotherapist Ruth Allen takes us back to ground level, and shows us how the earth’s own system of weathering is a profound model for us to build our own lives upon to similarly weather life’s storms. • 5. We Need Your Art by @inspiredtowrite - the book every creative needs to read. Amie delivers a friendly but much needed shove out the door to every artist in the pits of doubt, block, and imposter syndrome. With practical sections on moving through blocks and limiting beliefs next to the pep talks you didn’t know you needed, you will close this book believing in yourself and your art again. • What other creators you love to follow wrote books I need to read? This next year is coming up fast, give me your book recs and tag their authors for me ☺️ #bookrecs #booksarelife #bookstoread