Hello kind stranger, thank you for taking the time to visit this space on the Internet. I have a crush on the cozy, intimate, and personal Internet, and I’m not the only one. You?

This website is an online notebook; a scavenger hunt of unfinished thoughts, polished ideas, and snapshots in various formats. I absolutely love receiving friendly emails from Internet strangers. Here’s a standing invitation to say hello.

My name is Zinzy Waleson Geene, which sounds like ZIN-zee WHALE-son GREEN if you drop the R. Some things about me:

• I am a diary-keeper (archive)
• I love my work as a software designer
• I’m a crazy church lady
• I live in Amsterdam with Anja and Lemonade
• I keep a website because I like the independent web
• I’ve been yelling at Internet clouds since 1997

I’m an Afropean, queer, neurodivergent first-generation University graduate. I have the immense privilege of waking up every day feeling 8+, with a labrador-like enthusiasm for life. It’s an effective way to make up for what wasn’t.

I’m a lifelong learner, music maker, song writer, photographer, doodler, reader, painter, gardener, and writer. I do my best to align what I do with what I value. I practice a “stop believing, start doing” kind of Jesus following.

I’m of São Toméan and Dutch descent, hailing from enslaved Angolan grandparents on one side, and a long line of loud, burgundian band geeks on the other. I grew up in the narrow tail-end of the Netherlands, bike rides away from both Belgium and Germany.

In various forms and frequencies, I’ve been keeping a diary since I was a little kid. You may consider this website an extension of that. I’m an advocate for the IndieWeb, which is a snooty way of saying I think the Internet should be scattered, playful, experimental, personal, and cozy.

My Xhosa name was inspired by Nelson Mandela’s daughter Zindziswa. If I had been a boy, you would’ve had to call me Stevie Wonder Waleson Geene.

I’ve been sober since May 2018.