Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden

Four Months in Poland by Keenan “Almost every single day I am reminded how much of my life I’ve lived in service of making myself small.

went to the Seattle Japanese Garden to celebrate my birthday!

a backside view of the Japanese maple that greets you upon entry to the garden — what a specimen Somehow I’ve never made it to the Seattle Japanese Garden before — I’ve been to the free Kubota Garden in South Seattle many a time (and highly recommend it),…

At Seattle’s Japanese Garden, there’s a stand of (probably Mugo) pines that are somewhat of a size with the shore pine I’m attempting to train.

hung a spare mirror and art to make my new workout space more pleasant Win of the week: did another music library purge — down to 3150 tracks from about 4000 in February — have removed all the “easy” stuff, now I need to actually listen to some tracks and…

I’ve had the vague idea for a while that I’d like to write up my thoughts about local government outreach — I’m an opinionated person 😉 Originally, I thought I’d write an email newsletter, but after brainstorming a list of topics a couple years ago, the f…

When I started physical therapy for my neck this spring, the therapist asked why I had stopped weight training five years ago.

In a recent conversation about genre, my friend challenged me to come up with specific examples instead of speaking in vibes.

Went to Homebrew Writing Club — Writing Edition today, which raised a lot of thoughts: I’m curious what makes writers choose a particular format for an idea?

I got this crinoline out to drop off at the costume swap but Mina was so excited to have it back that I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of it — it’s extremely cute playing with the dancer toy in it because she uses the folds as cover 😸 Win of the week: g…

Some factors that weigh in a novel’s favor when I’m deciding whether to add it to my TBR, not in any particular order: The blurb sounds fun (aka “is it drugs“) It’s a fairy tale retelling (especially Beauty and the Beast or Hades and Persephone) It has th…

we took down the shade in the arch window and within fifteen minutes she’d found the new sun patch Win of the week: my Wonders of Web Weaving podcast episode came out!

James was kind enough to have me on his podcast, Wonders of Web Weaving.

she’s been hanging out while I read after lunch — potentially because that’s where the sunshine is lol Win of the week: went to Front End Study Hall and got help figuring out why my site wasn’t displaying correctly on mobile — plus learned about text-wrap:

Step one of my latest mini project was acquiring my word list from my Weeknotes posts over the past few years.

Happy Labor Day to my fellow Americans!

I’m trying to do better about caring for my skin, so I went into the dermatologist for a full body skin check in January.

Bellevue Botanical Garden — Joe Pye Weed / Eutrochium maculatum ‘Gateway’ Highlight of the week: saw my niece and met her partner Looking forward to: seeing Coyote vs.

I was looking at my server stats (AWStats) to see if I could identify bot traffic easily.

I appreciated Newsonaut’s recent post arguing that we should keep supporting Firefox, as well as the Hacker News discussion about it.

Formatted text (especially bullet points with the first sentence bolded) seems to be twigging some people that it’s AI-generated.

While most emergency preparation in the PNW focuses on “The Big One,” I’ve realized the most common scenarios in which we actually need emergency food and water are: winter storm power outages (1-4 days, 1-3 times a year) and water main breaks (we had a t…

Per this map, my city does not have any publicly operated Flock cameras, which I’m very happy about.

I’m hoping this mini clamp-on shelf (right) will let me keep my thesaurus in arm’s reach without me piling junk on it 😂 also hopefully Mina will not try to sit on it Win of the week: dropped off a ton of household goods at Goodwill (discovered that there’s

Monday’s reading.