Have You Been Sondering?

The third time may just be the most charming

Here’s one definition of Sonder:

The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one’s own, which they are constantly living despite one’s personal lack of awareness of it.

Sondering, then, would mean to have an unexplained connection to others — to strangers.

Sonder — the hybrid between a hotel and an Airbnb — is all about this profound awareness, it seems.

My Second Sonder

Thanks to Ellen Eastwood, I’ve been Sondering as my latest work assignment has me traveling often between home in Nashville and work in DC.

The picture at the top of this piece is from my third Sonder — the one I’m sitting in as I type this.

All three have been in the same are of DC and all have been in the same building.

Now that I’ve been in Room 14, however, I may see if I can request it on future trips.