This site is a collection of sundry sorts curated by Christian Miles and Paul Haney. Christian and Paul met sometime in 2009 and started creating music. Over the years they have written and recorded dozens of songs, and played together in a cover band. Sonder is also a place for our other various artistic outputs. Be it writing, poetry, or drone cinematography. This halcyon art cavalcade is but one entry in history's diary, and most assuredly the vast majority of the world will never see it. The word that describes that sorrow is Sonder. (coined by John Koenig from Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows)
Sonder
n. The realization that everyone has a story
“You are the main character—the protagonist—the star at the center of your own unfolding story. You’re surrounded by your supporting cast: friends and family hanging in your immediate orbit. Scattered a little further out, a network of acquaintances who drift in and out of contact over the years.
But there in the background, faint and out of focus, are the extras. The random passersby. Each living a life as vivid and complex as your own. They carry on invisibly around you, bearing the accumulated weight of their own ambitions, friends, routines, mistakes, worries, triumphs and inherited craziness. When your life moves on to the next scene, theirs flickers in place, wrapped in a cloud of backstory and inside jokes and characters strung together with countless other stories you’ll never be able to see. That you’ll never know exists.In which you might appear only once. As an extra sipping coffee in the background. As a blur of traffic passing on the highway. As a lighted window at dusk.”