Nookish

Ah the new domain.  Well… technically it’s not new, it’s been around for a year or two being used to host other sites, but nookish.com itself has never been used.

The Name:

You gotta create the world you want to be a part of

There’s a little bit of nostalgia tied to the meaning of Nookish.  Basically in highschool a group of friends and I used to sneak out of the cafeteria (the only area food was allowed) and eat our lunches in this tiny room.  The novelty of the room was that it used to be the exit to the outside at one point, but when the school expanded they built another, larger stairwell/exit right next to it, making this small area redundant.  It never actually had a name until one day a classmate stuck his head in to say hello and asked “How on earth can you all fit inside such a tiny nook?”.  And the name stuck.

The group of us that used to eat there became unofficially known as the “Nook Folk”, which even carried over into this mass phoenix of a collaborative writing project that first got the name “The Nook“.  As the years went by we all moved to different cities, started classes and got jobs that kept us busy, but The Nook was kind of this fixed point that we would all gravitate towards.

What happened to Eternity?

Well first of all Eternity accidentally got wiped.  I just looked at it as the opportunity to start over with a clean slate.  Also I think that maybe the blog I was writing when I was 16 doesn’t really represent me any more now that I’m 21.  Eternity was how I saw the world back then, vast and unimaginable.

My feeling now is that things don’t last forever, and maybe that’s a good thing.  The bad things pass just as the good things do.  Nookish is grounded in this snapshot moment of the past, but at the same time it has always got its meaning from the constant creation, reinvention and reforging of things that are important.  Maybe that’s what I’m looking for now too.

So what does it mean?

To me Nookish conjures up the feeling of boundless creativity which inspires you, but more importantly connects you to other people.  It is a safe place where you can feel comfortable to be yourself, and has a revolving door of characters that enter in and out of its story.  It’s the eye of the storm, where you can take a break from the pressures and harsh truths of reality, and be a little honest and a little daring.

I think I belong in such a place.  I think I might just be a little Nookish myself!