nyana's blog :)

This is my first-ever blog post on my first-ever website! Isn’t that cool?

Welcome to my first entry. This is my first blog post, and I have no idea how to work my own website. I find it only fitting that my introduction to the internet begins with “Hello World!” (and I don’t know how to change it).

I had a lovely day today alone on Chappy (Chappaquiddick) while Coki (Frances Somerville A.K.A. Coco) was at her first day of work for this summer.

the dock I was sitting on today, also where I met Coco’s neighbor/coworker/closeandpersonalconfidante Charlie and his dog Rosy

I added this photo of the dock because it is where I decided to start this blog. Well, I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for a little bit now, and somewhere between the chumies and yurt and in between the wood panels of the dock, I couldn’t escape the clanking of the chains that hold the dock in place under me. The annoying sound was, of course, annoying, but I found my mind wandering instead to the reason behind the noise. I began to think about the waves around the world that cause the dock beneath me to sway in a certain way, and the wind to blow my hair in a way that tickles my face —one of my favorite ingredients for the perfect sunbathing experience. This practice of simply sitting in the sun and appreciating the tiny details of my lived experience has proven to be very meditative for me. Gratitude in general has really upped my life, I’d say. Okay, anyway, this isn’t like a how-to blog (I kinda started writing like one since I’ve read so many blogs and subreddits today); this is just a space for me to write my thoughts, and I feel like this is an enriching hobby.

When I told Coki about my new blog journey, she suggested a journal… I already have a journal, and that’s for my more personal and more therapy-related thoughts. JK lol. My original idea, although I know you absolutely could not care less, was that this could be somewhat of an extension of my nynyspams Instagram page since I already treat it like one in my head. Nynyspams has grown a lot over the years, and I want to keep cultivating it, but I’ve found myself really invested in curating not just the pictures and slides but also the music and captions as well. Though this is a far jump from enjoying making an Instagram post, I really feel like this is the right next step for me. It’s the difference between showing to social media a curated version of myself that follows its rules and etiquette, and having a published space where I have full creative authority while still feeling like I’m expressing an authentic but polished version of myself to the world.

There are a few things I want this blog to do/be and partly because I want to remind myself as I write because my thoughts move much faster than my fingers, and partly to map out the rest of this post for you, my sweet baby angel reader; here’s a list of my goals for my new blog 🙂

• Make myself feel like all the best parts of Hannah (Girls) and Carrie (Sex and the City) while avoiding the the parts that make them incredibly insufferable
• Be a religious experience to look through
• feel somewhat nostalgic/ something to look back on
• be meditative to make
• a hobby i’m proud of and want to show off to people
• something my friends can look at for updates on my life without having to do a full debrief
• my friends to comment and be funny

I would normally say I know you don’t care about all the reasons I want to start a blog, but if you’re reading this, you have to, to some extent or else you wouldn’t be here.

This first post is just an introduction, I have a lot of fun things to say and show you!! 🙂

Love,

Ny’Ana