Why Now?

This pandemic has given me the gift of silence.  I don’t mean a lack of sound waves; the house is full of people and animals, and spring hatchlings tweet up a storm outside my windows.  I mean a lack of noise - the metaphorical kind.  Fewer distractions and fewer external pulls means time for fundamentals.

Sainte-Cecile Cathedral, Albi, France © 2018 C.M.P. Sonas

In addition to the silence, I have to survive the pandemic with my sanity and spirit intact.  That means I’m drawing on things that I don’t normally access often when life is more even-keeled.  So I’m spending a lot of time in meditative creative activities like art and writing.

I’ve had Advancing Wisdom on the back burner for two years.  It was meant to be fully arrived by about 2024, when my youngest will be done homeschooling and launching to adult independence.  It’s my mission and my brand, designed to unify the diversity of projects that I develop and release.

Since the lengthy pandemic disruption started, though, I’ve created numerous pieces of art, and presented an editorial cartoon to the world.  I’ve composed an four-page essay on public health which just finished its first editorial revision.  My son and I finally did the heavy labor to turn a third of our backyard into a vegetable garden.  There’s a lot of creation happening in my life, and it seemed like the right time to create the Advancing Wisdom home, too.

So, now.