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Three Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton – Episode 132: cemeteries, electricity, witnessThree Things from Edmonton – Episode 132: cemeteries, electricity, witness
Hello from the crystal gondola in the palatial main studios of the Three Things podcast! Thanks for dropping by. I had started noticing that I wasn’t noticing as much. Certainly not every changing wind, which is the Isbell Test. So I set about trying to do a better job noticing with my stock noticing equipment. Before it rusted out. That’s how the podcast started. As it progressed, I noticed the obvious: it is quite good enough to do a better job noticing what others notice about the world...2023-07-2805 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 111: socks, serious dream, maracasHello, and thanks for dropping by the podcast. This is my ongoing effort to trust myself when it comes to noticing things that make for happiness and gratitude. It’s some kind of record, as is asked of all of us. This is what came up the top this week:
1. Socks – On some days, I have a tight connection to my socks.
2. Serious dream – An account of some time in the shadow kingdom.
3. Maracas – The music of the seed display at the neighbourhood grocery store.
The music in the podcast is as origi...2023-03-0305 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton – Episode 110: timing, specifically, sounds of homeHello, and thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. This is where I keep a promise to myself to try harder to notice things for myself, at the expense of having things noticed for me by the algorithms. Specifically, things that leave behind tracks of gratitude and happiness. This week's noticings:
1. Timing – I admire people who not only say the right thing but say the right thing at the right time. There’s an extra dose of the bliss of being alive when the timing is perfect.
2. Specifically – Saul Alinsky, George Saunders, Mark Connolly and To...2023-02-2405 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton – Episode 109: Boss, belief, bikeHello and thanks for checking out this week’s Three Things podcast, which is made up of three things from my little life last week that left behind tracks of happiness or gratitude.
1. Boss – Springsteen is coming back to town.
2. Belief – Having a beer at Aradia, looking forward to Ted Lasso, season 3.
3. Bike – A few words in thanks to my bicycle.
The original music in the podcast is from Edmonton composer Brendan McGrath. The end bells are supplied, as always, by Edmonton metal artist and humanitarian, Slavo Cech. The sun is now up a...2023-02-1705 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 108: waves, radio, resonanceThanks for dropping by the podcast. Each week I try to do three things: notice, remember and record three things that made for some happiness and gratitude in the maelstrom. This week:
1. Waves - in the live stream of traffic in Edmonton
2. Radio - the kitchen counter feels more complete now that we have a radio again.
3. Resonance - I hear this alot: "that really resonates with me." A print helped me understood the root of things.
The original music in the podcast is from Edmonton composer, pianist and teacher, Brendan McG...2023-02-1006 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton – Episode 107: print, dolphins, crunchThanks for giving my little podcast a listen. It’s a continuing experiment to see if each week I can notice and remember and then record three things that left behind tracks of gratitude and happiness. Just stuff from my little life I share with Shelagh up here on latitude 53 in Edmonton, Canada. This week:
1. Print – reflections on a wonderful dinner at Filistix that left a kind of stamp on me
2. Dolphins – the night Hawksley Workman ascended from the deep
3. Crunch – putting the i back in kitchen
The original podcast music is from...2023-02-0306 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 106: comma, streeter, jerkyWelcome to this week’s Three Things. Once a week I try to notice in the maelstrom three things that made for some happiness and gratitude. Rising to the top this week:
1. Comma – The first punctuation mark in Crosby, Stills & Nash hit home last week
2. Streeter – What do you think about the person on the street interviews?
3. Jerky – A serving of memory from the deli counter.
The original podcast music is from Edmonton pianist and composer Brendan McGrath. The end bells, the gift of Edmonton metal artist and humanitarian, Slavo Cech.
I’...2023-01-2705 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 105: magic, misdirection, observationThanks for checking out the little podcast, I appreciate it. Frustrated by the various other approaches to things, I decided 105 weeks ago to try a little gratitude and happiness. Each week, stop, reflect and record three little things from the gratitude and happiness side of the ledger. This week:
1. Magic - I was reading a New York Times Magazine article about a Spanish magician when one thing led to another and I had a thought about a very curious Dylan song. Welcome back to the podcast, Señor Bob.
2. Misdirection - I was thinking about t...2023-01-2006 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 104: Snow dome, statues, sheet musicHello and thanks for dropping by the podcast. The podcast is my way of trying to notice what I notice. There are more than enough politicians, algorithms, advertisers and artificial intelligence prophets who are too happy to do my noticing for me. I mean, I can press tab to have the computer finish my sentence. This week’s offering:
1. Snow dome – Driving north with Sibelius on CBC radio
2. Statues – A key change here, but am grateful for the work of photojournalists in war zones, and was reminded of that last week
3. Sheet music – I just d...2023-01-1305 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton – Episode 103: palimpsest, family history, long viewThanks very much for dropping by the Three Things podcast. Here, once a week, I try to stop to consider three things that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude. This week
1. Palimpsest – Things fade, like autographs on guitar straps.
2. Family history – A new story from my mom!
3. Long view – RIP Ian Tyson.
I am not a cowboy. I don’t once a year pretend to be a cowboy. Not even a fan of the rodeo, gotta say. But on Friday, November 13, 1987, I danced a polka with Shelagh McAnally at a nightclu...2023-01-0606 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 102: sliding home, strings, intersectionHello and welcome and thanks for checking out this week’s podcast. I try once a week to notice things I notice, especially the things that made me feel happy and grateful. Then I try to jar those things in a podcast. Like making pickles. This week those three things were:
1. Sliding home – Our Christmas Eve family gathering featured some ghosts on the wall.
2. Strings – And a newly tuned piano.
3. Intersection – And a print that took me to a place I have both been and never been to.
The music in the podcast is original. It is the composition and playing...2023-01-0306 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 101: family, what a drag!, Zamboni-30-
That’s how newspaper reporters would indicate the end of their copy. Remove the second hyphen and it’s how Edmontonians this week indicated the temperature. Yikes. Robbie Burns is outside? Yes, yes, come in, please, get warm, sir! What's this now? You have some winter music for us? A dirge? Yes, the floor is yours:
The wintry west extends his blast,
And hail and rain does blaw;
Or, the stormy north sends driving forth
The blinding sleet and snaw:
While tumbling brown, the burn comes...2022-12-2307 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton – Episode 100: wherewithal, Professors Plumb, reunionHello from snowy Edmonton, thanks for dropping by the podcast. Once a week I try to do three things: notice what made me happy or grateful, remember what made me happy or grateful, record what made me happy or grateful. As a bit of resistance against the politicians and the advertisers and the algorithms that are only too happy to do my noticing for me. This week:
1. Wherewithal – I saw Connor McDavid live. So did Leon Draisaitl.
2. Professors Plumb – What do we want? Plumbing! When do we want it? Now!
3. Reunion – A special delive...2022-12-1607 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 99: cold comfort, theory, Indy sceneWelcome and welcome back to the Three Things podcast, recorded and sent out to the world from the basement of our bungalow in Edmonton’s Parkview neighbourhood. It’s been cold this week. Here are three things that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude during a bike ride through that cold. Cold is a preserving agent.
1. Cold comfort – some thoughts about base layers in this weather
2. Theory – some thoughts about thinking
3. The Indy scene – dada da-daah, dada daaah!
The original music in the podcast is from Edmonton pianist and composer Brendan Mc...2022-12-0906 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 98: hope and feathers, soccer balls, building lightsHello from Edmonton where it’s been cold enough lately for the snow to stay snow for a few minutes after getting tramped into the house. Yes, this, too, shall melt. Here are this week’s three things that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude.
1. Hope and feathers – a routine trip to the grocery story that ended in verse
2. Soccer balls – a soccer naif connects a few points
3. Building lights – the short story of the tanks in Prague and the lights in Edmonton
The original music in the podcast is from Edmont...2022-12-0206 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 97: Taxes, El Paso; 10 minutes; artist’s vision 🦃Hey, thanks so much for giving the podcast a quick listen. Once a week I set myself the task of stealing time away from whatever pressing priority is pressing to reflect on things that made me happy and grateful. It beats the alternatives. This week’s three things:
1. Taxes, El Paso – Some Montaigne, Bacon, Dylan and Robbins
2. 10 minutes - Some Sam Baker
3. Artist’s vision - Some Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts
The original music in the podcast is from the heart and piano of Edmonton composer Brendan McGrath. The end be...2022-11-2507 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton – Episode 96: well, well, well; whale, whale, whale; world, world, worldThanks for dropping by the podcast, hope you enjoy it, hope you’re noticing the stuff that leaves behind tracks of happiness and gratitude in your lives. On the hunch that we’ll need those tracks some day, or in the next five minutes, to make our way back.
This week’s three things from me:
1. Well, well, well - what do you call those masses of snow and ice that barnacle to the underside of wheel wells?
2. Whale, whale, whale - one day in 1970, a dynamite expert walks onto a beach in Oregon…
3. World, world, world - some loose thoughts...2022-11-1806 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton – Episode 95: fables, encounters, nothingsThanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast, it’s nice to know you are here. 95 episodes ago, I sensed something had happened to the part of me that noticed every changing wind. Jason Isbell is a main reason for this podcast, yes. Since then, once a week, I have tried with whatever stock-issue noticing equipment hasn’t been occupied by the algorithms and the advertisers, to get back to what, for a long time, was quite good enough: to notice things I notice that make me happy or grateful, remember them, put them down.
This week’s thre...2022-11-1106 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 94: Franciscans, Basilians, Ursa-linesThanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. I try once a week to notice three things I noticed that made me happy and thankful. Doing so helps keep the noticing equipment from seizing up. This week, the attempted habit of noticing things from my little life served up:
1. Franciscans – Vic Gobeil and the Jawas return at this time of year.
2. Basilians – James Keelaghan and the Ukrainian Platters take me back.
3. Ursa-lines – A few lines inspired by a walk back from the alley via the constellations and planets.
The podcast music is ori...2022-11-0406 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 93: crisis communications, leverage, The Milk Carton KidsThank you for dropping by the Three Things podcast. This week’s episode was inspired by events that took place in our upstairs living room, on our downstairs TV and in Row G at the Winspear Centre in downtown Edmonton.
1. Crisis communications – Little Buddy comes to visit
2. Leverage – the LEGO Knight aims for the far shore
3. The Milk Carton Kids – the band brought the hill to the Winspear.
The podcast theme music is original. It was composed and performed by Edmonton pianist and composer Brendan McGrath. I met Slavo Cech in high sch...2022-10-2805 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 92: smiles, roaring 20s, alphabetHello, and thank you for dropping by the Three Things podcast, recorded once a week from the crystal gondola in the palatial basement studio in our bungalow in Edmonton’s beautiful Parkview neighbourhood. The bill of fare each week consists of three things that left behind tracks of happiness or gratitude.
This week:
1. Big smiles – it was a good concert downtown at MacEwan
2. Roaring 20s – it’s been a really pleasant October temperature-wise, as they say
3. Alphabet – it’s good to stop and read and stop and read
The music in the...2022-10-2105 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 91: skateboard, sound, cabin doorThanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. This week’s collection of three things from my little life that left behind tracks of gratitude and happiness has no unifying thread. There’s a little bit of skateboarding, some geese honking and some Bob Dylan listening. So, yes, a Bob Dylan Alert has been issued for this episode of the podcast*.
1. Skateboard – this one’s about the teacher
2. Sound – it’s a good time of year in Edmonton to have your ears on
3. Cabin door – see * above
The podcast music is original. It c...2022-10-1406 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 90: that delicious moon, Mavericks, loteríaHello from Edmonton, and thanks for sharing a bit of your time with the Three Things podcast. Once a week, on a hunch, I put the podcast together. The hunch is that by kinda forcing myself to make note of the things that make me happy and grateful, I will find it easier to notice more of what is waiting to be noticed. On the model of the Oscar Peterson statue in Ottawa. The music is always playing. You just have to wait for the sound of the traffic to die down to hear it. This week:
1. T...2022-10-0706 minThree Things from Edmonton🇲🇽 Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 89: The oilers, viva México, artHello, and thanks for dropping the Three Things podcast, the wrap-up episode from my eye- and heart-opening trip to México. The podcast is my way of keeping some kind of record of things I notice that I’m happy and grateful for. This week:
1. The oilers – the three hours we spent with the virgin at a farm outside San Miguel de Allende was an answer to a prayer.
2. Viva México – it’s an emotional place, México.
3. Art – it was everywhere, basically, from the gutter to the galleries.
Speaking of art, the o...2022-09-3005 minThree Things from Edmonton🇲🇽 Three Things – Episode 88: seasons in the sol, life on the road, outside the boxHello, buenos días, buenas tardes, buenas noches from our temporary vacation hideout in México, the holiday that Covid couldn’t cancel twice. I have stopped flinching at the sound of daytime fireworks. I am getting used to the place.
In the podcast, I try to notice what I notice makes me happy or grateful, in case I have to retrace my steps. This week:
1. Seasons in the sol – or, gracias, Terry Jacks!
2. Life on the road – would you believe a tomb shaped like a giant sombrero with a trailing ceramic serrape?
3. Outside the box – still the super middleweight champion o...2022-09-2305 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things - Episode 87: flash of time, balls of fun, good earsFrom our little patch of planet Earth here in Parkview in west Edmonton, hello! and thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. I am trying to build up a pile of things I noticed I noticed made me feel happy or grateful that gives me a place to stand to see a bigger picture. This week:
1. Flash of time – I was 14 when I took a picture of the Queen. I’m 58 now, and still have it nearby.
2. Balls of fun – So, a guy walks out of the trees at Victoria golf course…
3. Good ears...2022-09-1506 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things - Episode 86: this time of year, tracks, skyHello, and thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. It’s where once a week I try to stop, notice, notice I’m noticing, remember I noticed and then put down three things I noticed made me happy or grateful. This week’s haul:
This time of year - I do love being alive in September, gotta say.
1. Tracks - Trains, train songs, Willie, etc.
2. Sky - It’s up there with the things I seem to keep forgetting.
3. The music in the podcast is original. It’s from the original Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Edmonton metal arti...2022-09-0905 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things - Episode 85: freedom 55, equations, homeworkHappy end of the week, friends, and thanks for stopping by the Three Things podcast. Isbell has a line in 24 Frames. What happened to the part of me, the singer sings, that noticed every changing wind? There was a time when I would have heard that line and focussed on the wind. Those were different days. Now, I notice that Isbell testifies that there is part of him that brings what is out in. It is a registering part, a recording studio of some kind. To keep my own noticing equipment from being mothballed, I try to notice three t...2022-09-0205 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 84: cutlery, habitat, lost and foundHappy end of the week, y'all. Hello from my little corner of the big picture. Each week, I try to slow down, remember three things that made me happy or grateful, put them down and send them out there on their own. Thanks for listening. This week’s three:
1. Cutlery – Shelagh called to mind a fragile memory.
2. Habitat – “Grid happens” came back to mind.
3. Lost and found – A misplaced item was replaced.
The music in the podcast is as original as its maker, Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Edmonton metal artist...2022-08-2605 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 83: Bob, You Angelou You, Write Like ThisHappy summer from my little patch of Edmonton. It’s been decades since, as a student, I was imprinted with the rhythm of the school year, but September is still back-to-school time, July and August are still summer holidays, summer holidays are still about reading books. And reading is still about great sentences. The Summer Reading episode of the Three Things podcast presents three great sentences from the life sentence collection.
One from Bob Dylan.
One from Maya Angelou.
One from Daniel Behrman.
The music in the podcast is original. It was...2022-08-1906 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 82: sounding familiar, segments, whalesThanks so much for dropping by the Three Things podcast. Each week from my basement hideout in west Edmonton, I put together an unremarkable list of the three things I noticed I noticed that left behind some happiness or gratitude. It’s a way to keep noticing those things. Kinda circular.
This week’s list:
1. Sounding familiar - Hear ye, hear ye! The Edmonton Folk Music Festival is back. The sounds of the professionals were, as always, wonderful. But there were other welcome notes, too.
2. Segments – I am still trying to piece together where...2022-08-1205 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 81: flowers, documentaries, timelinesThanks for dropping by the podcast, which, I hope, is still what it started out as—a way of keeping some kind of record of little things that left behind traces of happiness or gratitude as they passed me by. This week those three things were:
1. Flowers – Good things can happen when you stop to look at flowers.
2. Documentaries – Behind the making of a summer bicycle short.
3. Timelines – A reflection on rain in the gutter.
The podcast is set to original music by Edmonton composer and pianist Brendan McGrath. The end bells ar...2022-08-0505 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 80: big world, tracking shot, transfersThanks for stopping by the Three Things podcast, coming at you from our little bungalow in west Edmonton. The little idea of the podcast is to notice, remember and record three things that made for some happiness or gratitude. So that not all my noticing is done for me. This week:
1. Big world – the Pope’s plane arrived with some new thoughts
2. Tracking shot – sharing vacation photos can take you places
3. Transfers – of buses and transfers and Joni
The music in the podcast is original. It was composed and performed by pianist...2022-07-2905 min
Three Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 79: local news, new old road, notes of appreciationHello, welcome, and thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. It’s nice to have you here. The idea of the podcast is to keep me, keep us, in the habit of noticing what we notice. Each week I try to notice, remember and then put down three things from my little life that left a residue of happiness and gratitude. This week:
1. Local news – I didn’t know cicadas are in Edmonton. I thank Taproot Edmonton and reporter Brett McKay for breaking this news for me.
2. New old road – I didn’t know that piece...2022-07-2206 min
Three Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 78: breaking news, squirrels!, honeybeesThanks for stopping by the Three Things podcast. Once a week for the last 78, I’ve tried to notice a few things I’ve noticed that made for some happiness or gratitude. This week:
Breaking news – a shattered light bulb threw some things into relief
Squirrels – a short defence of the disparaged rodent
Honeybees – a wild scene downtown
Here is the script and some photos.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
The podcast music is original. It comes from the composing heart and piano-playing hands of Edmonton’s Brendan McGrath. The...2022-07-1505 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 77: pelicans, floor wax, kite tailThanks for checking Three Things, which drops once a week from the podcast’s palatial main studios in west Edmonton. The idea is to get into the habit of noticing what I notice makes me feel happy or grateful. This week:
The pelicans – they’re back! Their fronts! Their gullets!
Floor wax – how a buddy who wasn’t there got me out of a bad place
Kite tails – one in France, especially.
The original music in the podcast is the work of Edmonton composer and pianist Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy metal artist and humanitarian Slavo Cech.2022-07-0805 min
Three Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton—Episode 76: stopping, skin in the game, new old storiesThanks for checking out the Three Things podcast. It’s where each week I try to notice, remember and then make note of three things from my little life that made me happy or grateful. This week:
Stopping - it’s what a bike in the city is for!
Skin in the game - my mid-life discovery of my own legs
New old stories - why Auntie Shelagh was, as a little girl, bathed in the sink
The podcast music is the original work of Edmonton composer and pianist Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Edmonton meta...2022-07-0105 min
Three Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 75: taking readings, game in the skin, introducing…Welcome to the Three Things podcast where I try to notice what I notice that makes me happy or grateful. It’s an exercise in protecting the noticing equipment we all have, and that others want. Little things, like, this week:
Taking readings — a trip from the mailbox to the container garden
Game in the skin — my temporary tattoos are back
Introducing…a little fellow in our life
The podcast music is original, composed, arranged and performed by Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Slavo Cech, fellow Class of ‘82 grad, O’Leary High, artist and humanitarian.
I am a...2022-06-2406 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton podcast - Episode 74: pop, pillows, puddlesThanks for stopping by the weekly Three Things podcast. The idea here is to cling to what I notice I notice so that I don’t revert to host shell of a body filled by what others notice. It’s not expensive. No membership fees. This week:
Pop music – Da Doo Ron Ron ran away with my week.
Pillows – some bedroom talk for y’all.
Puddles – it can be surreal out there!
The podcast theme music is original. It’s from the talented Edmonton pianist and composer and record-store-bargain-hunter Brendan McGrath. The sleep music is from Neutrin05. The end bells...2022-06-1704 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 73: making an entrance, fellow travellers, tapsThanks for checking out the Three Things podcast, which returned this week to its recording headquarters in the basement of our house in Parkview in Edmonton’s west end after the week Auntie Shelagh and I spent in the American west (or was it the southwest? or midwest? or the south? what is Oklahoma?)
This week’s three things came back with me from our visit to the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa.
Making an entrance – 10 steps inside the Center door and you’re in the centre of it all.
Fellow travellers – Reading the signs at the Bob Dy...2022-06-1005 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things, Episode 72: maintenance, manuscripts, your captain speakingHello, y’all. This week’s podcast comes to you from the 21 ½ Boutique Hotel on Reconciliation Way in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are holidaying with great friends Dave and Patty, who live and teach here. Three things this week that delivered some happiness or gratitude are:
Maintenance – I should make maintenance more of a thing.
Manuscripts – Some thoughts after some time with Bob Dylan.
Your captain speaking – Some advice from our pilot on the flight from Dallas to Tulsa
The podcast music is original. It comes from Edmonton pianist and composer Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Slavo Cech...2022-06-0305 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton podcast - Episode 71: fried eggs, WTP, solitaireThanks for dropping by the podcast. If you’re returning, thanks for returning. If you’re checking it out for the first time, welcome. The idea behind the pod is to do three things once a week: notice what I notice that makes me happy or grateful, remember it, record it. None of it is meant to be groundbreaking. More holding my ground, actually. There is more than enough money and power out there aimed at making me notice what they notice.
This week:
Fried eggs – I followed a recipe in the New York Times that took m...2022-05-2705 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 70: the pass, the goal, the picThanks for checking out this week’s Three Things podcast. The idea behind the pod is straightforward and personal and transferable. Do a better job of noticing the things I notice that make me feel happy or grateful. Remember them. Write them down. A couple weeks of Covid have meant life has been pretty slow here. Lots of sleep. Lots of TV. Same thing sometimes. I am grateful for getting to watch Connor McDavid when he’s in full flight. Like in the Game 7 win against the L.A. Kings that delivered:
The pass
The goal
The pic
I...2022-05-2005 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 69: away, debate club, over the hillThanks for stopping by my little podcast. In an effort to not get swept along by the tides, I try to do a better job noticing some of the things I notice from my life. It’s the only one I’ve got. Three things from it this week:
Away – My friend Richie got my thinking about vacations.
Debate club – Lay the tie around your neck with the wide end hanging 12 inches lower than the narrow end. Then cross the wide end over the narrow end…
Over the hill – Sometimes a stranger has the goods on you.
The music in...2022-05-0605 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 68: airshow, in time, all aboard!Thanks for spending a bit of your time with me in the Three Things podcast. I find it helpful, as a counterweight to all of the crap that the algorithm would have me notice, to try to notice what I notice for myself, especially things that make me happy or thankful, even if they are small things. Especially if they are small things. This week:
Airshow – the moment a dying tree came to life
In time - a tuba and a trombone where I didn’t expect to find them
All aboard! - any time is train time. And, apparently, wint...2022-04-3005 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 67: jazz, first person plural, twitter verseThanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. The original music is by Edmonton pianist and composer Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy one of the greatest metal artists in the O’Leary High School graduating class of 1982, Slavo Cech. The rest of the podcast recasts three things from my little life that delivered some happiness or gratitude last week.
Jazz - you find it in bike shops, too.
First person plural - some thoughts about that most penetrating of questions, Where are we, Lionel?
Twitter verse - how did a poem come to be written about a...2022-04-2206 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 66: Bubbles, puddles, cubby holesThanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast from Edmonton. I try to follow Dylan when he says not to trust him, but, rather, to trust yourself. The podcast is an experiment in noticing what I notice. Not big things. Things like, this week:
Bubbles - the day a desperado and his sister opened fire
Puddles - one particular puddle on the bridge over the MacKinnon Ravine
Cubby holes - you know, those square-cut holes in schoolyard fences
The music in the podcast is my favourite thing. It’s performed by Edmonton composer and pianist Brendan McGrath. Th...2022-04-1505 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton podcast - Episode 65: lottery, long Covid walk, final wordThank you for stopping by the Three Things podcast. And, now, a word from Hannah Arendt:
“Since the decay of their once great and glorious public realm, the French have become masters in the art of being happy among ‘small things,’ within the space of their own four walls, between chest and bed, table and chair, dog and cat and flowerpot, extending to these things a care and tenderness which, in a world where rapid industrialization constantly kills of the things of yesterday to produce today’s objects, may even appear to be the world’s last, purely hum...2022-04-0805 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 64: help from above, here and there, help from belowThanks for spending a few of your minutes with the Three Things podcast. Each week I try to notice things I notice from my little life that made for some happiness and gratitude. To stay in that key. I feel sometimes that so much is subtly noticed for me. I want to protect my point of view.
This week’s list:
Help from above – how a new, composite being kept the game going
Here and there – musings from the airport
Help from below – how a new transplant kept the game growing
My favourite part of each epis...2022-04-0105 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton podcast - Episode 63: eyes and ears, arms and legs, hands and feetThanks for stopping by the Three Things podcast. Each week I try to protect a little bit of space from which to notice what I notice about the things that go by, things that, to boot, make me feel happy and grateful. This week’s list:
Eyes and ears – two friends took their noticing equipment to the people
Arms and legs – my bicycle helps me put some shape to things
Hands and feet – “15-2, 15-4 and the rest don’t score…”
The music in the podcast is original. It comes from Edmonton pianist and composer Brendan McGrath. The end bells ar...2022-03-2505 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton podcast - Episode 62: jars, curling, CanadasHello, welcome to the Three Things podcast. Somewhere along the line, maybe while staring out the window on an LRT ride back to Belvedere Station as a university student, I decided it was good work to try to notice something for myself and try to write a sentence about it. I’m still that kid. And these are still trying times.
This week, the three things that brought some happiness and gratitude were:
Jars – they hold more than jellied chicken.
Curling - I don’t understand it. It doesn’t matter.
Canadas - just a heads up that t...2022-03-1805 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton podcast - Episode 61: a proposal, outdoor movies, slightly unzippedIt’s probably the truth that there’s something wrong with you if there’s nothing wrong with you these days. This little podcast’s aim of making stand still each week three things that made me happy or grateful means only that, as Craig Finn has said, there’s comfort in the ritual. Nothing more, but nothing less, too. And, so, this week:
A proposal – it was windy on that walk
Outdoor movies – admit one, no charge
Slightly unzipped – why does the universe participate in trying to humiliate me? Oh, it doesn’t?
The music in the podcast is fro...2022-03-1105 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 60: evolution, banner day, art of springWelcome to the Three Things podcast. Thanks for dropping by for a listen. I feel that if I don’t make the effort to realize, remember and record three things that made me feel happy or grateful each week, I will end up noticing only what the algorithm wants me to notice. That won’t end well.
This week’s three things:
Evolution - I’ve been walking upright a lot lately.
Banner Day - It will be great day, even though I won’t be able to race a canoe down an icy hill.
Art of Spring...2022-03-0405 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 59: reappearing act, disappearing act, class actWelcome to the Three Things podcast. Unhappy end of the week, friends. It feels silly to fiddle around with three little things that made me feel happy or grateful this week. But I am grateful for my little life, and I hope it stays little. This week’s list is shared in the full knowledge of the fear and despair felt by those whose everyday lives are being shredded by the machines of war. It is so wrong.
This week I am grateful for friends who show up at the front door. And for invisible coffee mates. An...2022-02-2505 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 58: showtime, story time, freeze frameWelcome to the Three Things podcast. This is where the three episodes or events or conversations (or emails) from the past week that made me happy or grateful get framed. Frames do good work. This week’s crop of good things from my little life are:
Showtime - what goes into one of Battista’s calzones?
Story time - what goes into a short, sidewalk story?
Freeze frame - what goes into a photograph, or a cupboard, or a photo of a cupboard?
I enjoy hearing from you. Throw your bouquets (or bricks) at me at glenn.kubi...2022-02-1805 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 57: fish, farewell, foodHello and thanks for checking out this week’s podcast. 57 episodes ago I started the podcast out of equal parts fear and gratitude. I was afraid the stuff I was noticing was the stuff the powerful—algorithms or people—wanted me to notice. At the same time I sensed I was not living as if all of this was a gift, which is the best explanation for all of this that I have come across. So, I tried to notice the things and people in my life and be more thankful for them. Not because there isn’t other junk to n...2022-02-1104 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 56: sign of summer, Bill of goods, sign of springThanks for stopping by the Three Things podcast. It’s a short recap of a few big things from my little life that made me happy or grateful. This week:
Sign of summer - a sign that took me back, and, fingers crossed, ahead.
Bill of goods - my friend Bill Gattinger has been dead for almost two years. He was a good guy.
Sign of spring - an exseedingly welcome sight at the neighbourhood grocery store.
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The music in the podcast is original, the work of the original Edm...2022-02-0404 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 55: pop music, book drop, sunrise-sunsetWelcome to the Three Things podcast, and thanks for dropping by. The podcast is how I try to notice the things I notice that make me happy or grateful. Not letting those things get away is the whole game. This week we travel via pod to 95th Avenue and 170th Street, to the 1980s, to the Jasper Place Library in Edmonton and to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. This week’s three things are:
Pop music. With thanks to Kirsty MacColl, Tracy Ullman and Auntie Shelagh.
The book drop. With thanks to the idea of a library in th...2022-01-2804 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 54: The good word, Mozart, the music fileHello, thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. The one thing I know I can do better, the one thing that's up to me, is to do a better job noticing the things, the little things, especially, that make me happy or grateful—and then noticing that I noticed them. That's what this little podcast is about. I think it's the task we all share. And can share. So, this week, it's:
1. The good word -- how I've learned not to make my case.
2. Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 27 will get me for as lon...2022-01-2105 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 53: showing your routes, showing your roots, mailing it inThanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. It’s nice to have you here. It so is.
This is where I try to do the three things you have to do to keep memories alive. Make them. Remember them. Write them down. This week:
Showing your routes - a bit involved, but a tribute to newspaper reporters who keep our attention, and don’t assume we’ll just stop reading.
Showing your roots - thank you Jared Quinney and your trees.
Mailing it in - a stamp of approval for the posted letter.
The music...2022-01-1405 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 52: cemeteries, trains, infrastructureHello, thanks for spending some time with the Three Things podcast, Happy New Year!
This new episode, the first of 2022, drops into a time that does not feel very new. The pandemic is still with us. Uncertainty of all kinds still plague us. Democracy still feels under attack. And so on. Why add into the mix three puny things that make me happy or grateful?
Good question.
I was unexpectedly asked a version of it today in a medical centre waiting room (more details in the pod about why I was there) by...2022-01-0705 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 51: air drop, big save, grade memoriesHappy New Year from everyone at the Three Things podcast! This is where once a week I break down three things that made me happy or grateful. It’s good exercise. They’re mostly little things, like toys.
Toys that contain childhood
Toys that save memories
Toys that excavate the past
The real playing in the podcast’s original music is from pianist and composer Brendan McGrath of Edmonton. The end bells are courtesy metal artist and philanthropist Slavo Cech.
Blog, transcript, pics.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
🥂 2021-12-3105 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 50: sardines, ribs, end creditsThanks very much for stopping by the Three Things podcast. Episode 50. 🥂
Each week for five minutes or so I try to notice three things that made me happy or grateful. Not that there aren’t other takes on our predicament that are more profound and more needful. There so are, and we should listen. But there other things, little things, too:
Sardines
Ribs
End credits
The music on the podcast is original, the work of Edmonton composer Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Edmonton metals artist, and O’Leary High School Class of ‘82 grad, Slavo Cec...2021-12-2406 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 49: spruce trees, editors, crokinoleThanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. Once a week here I try to notice three things that made me feel happy or grateful, things I noticed I noticed, so the shabby noticing equipment doesn’t completely rust over. This week, let’s hear it for
Spruce trees (take a bough)
Editors
Crokinole
Or:
🌲🌲
📰 👀
🟤 💨 ⚪👌
The music in the podcast is from Edmonton composer Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Slavo Cech, “the guy who puts art in the woods, right?" according to Auntie Shelagh’s California-based niece, Janet.
Blog, transcript, pics.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.co...2021-12-1705 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 48: a quiet house, The Singer's House, a neighbour's houseHello, happy holidays and thanks for stopping by the Three Things podcast. I remember the Humanities Building on the University of Alberta campus and what Professor Bishop told us there in English 309 on those mornings long ago: go out and notice things and write them down. This week the three things I noticed that made me happy or grateful were one thing in three stanzas.
A quiet house - it’s back to an oral world when the battery is dead
The Singer’s House - one of my fave poems from Seamus Heaney
A neighbour’s house - or...2021-12-1004 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 47: tail lights, First Aid, Let it BeanHello, and thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. This is where, once a week, I try to notice three things from my life that made me feel happy or grateful, so, the algorithm gets a day off. Things like, this week:
Tail lights: Battery-operated gloves. The dishwasher at night. A highway through the Rockies. The connection.
First Aid: I learned that you learn First Aid to apply knowledge as much as bandages and gauze.
Let it bean: The Beatles documentary, a phone call from Manhattan, soup from Lynnwood. The connection.
The music in the podcast...2021-12-0305 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 46: minding the gap, talking the talk, reading the roomHello, thanks for checking out the Three Things podcast. This is where at each week’s end I look back at three things from my own little life that I noticed I noticed made me happy or grateful. To take a little noticing work off the shoulders of the algorithm. This week:
Minding the gap 📡 👼 So, we’re not angels!
Talking the talk ☕ 💬 Stopping for coffee v. Going for coffee
Reading the room 👻 🔖 The joy of reading alone—sort of.
The original music in the podcast is from an Edmonton original, Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Slavo Cech, the He...2021-11-2605 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 45: Frazil ice, my feet, a spectacleHello, and welcome to the Three Things podcast. This is where I try to make a record ("Hope you're keeping some kind of record." - L. Cohen) of little things I noticed that I noticed that made me happy or grateful. Not big things, not things that make like there's nothing wrong out there, just things to keep my own noticing mechanism working. Not the algorithm's.
This week's Three Things:
1. Frazil ice - it's a gorgeous piece of living on latitude 53 this time of year
2. My feet - that pair, plus the poetic v...2021-11-1905 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 44: Reliable sources, magpie culpa, darknessHello, and thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. Each week I try to notice three things I noticed, things that made me happy or grateful. Not because it's blue-sky perfect out there. Not a chance. I had just started to notice that I wasn't doing enough of my own noticing. That vital power was being usurped by the algorithm, by politicians, by those up the food chain.
So, it's not that each week's three things are momentous noticings. But they're mine. Or mostly mine. Or somewhat mine. This week:
1. Reliable sources - I we...2021-11-1205 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 43: Healthy injection, Sophie, Jack (Frost) of DiamondsHello, thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. Once again, it's a 5-minute+ look and listen back at three things I noticed that I noticed that made me happy or grateful. A bit of resistance against all the technology that would do my noticing for me, and then sell it on the market.
Things like:
1. Healthy injection - 60 remarkable seconds during a World Series broadcast
2. Sophie - Last time it was cucumbers. This time, we talked beets.
3. Jack (Frost) of Diamonds - A chance encounter with the poet in an em...2021-11-0505 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 42: tree of life, water bottle music, instant replayHello, and thanks for stopping by the Three Things podcast. I am still under the directions of my undergraduate expository writing prof, Ted Bishop, who would send us out of the classroom to notice things. Record them. Consider them. It's always felt like freedom to me.
This week's Three Things:
1. Tree of life - reliably, there's a tree full of birds just off the 102 Avenue bike lane in Edmonton, near 121 Street.
2. Water bottle music - I happened to see something on my bike that isn't really there, but either are the coyotes I saw...2021-10-2905 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 40: instrument light rules, popcorn, artificeHello, thanks for stopping by the Three Things podcast. The podcast is an experiment in the discipline of noticing things by myself. The algorithm wants me to notice things. Politicians and advertisers and marketers, too. I want to try to secure, in my way, the bastion of sensation, as Heaney puts it. And, if I can, notice what I notice makes me happy or grateful, just to, in a little way, confound the merchants of anger and outrage.
This week:
1. Instrument light rules -- getting going at this time of year up here means we're l...2021-10-1506 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 38: autumn magic, baseball errors, delivery dayWelcome to the Three Things podcast. It's my attempt to make stand still each week three things I noticed I noticed made me happy or grateful. This week:
1. Autumn magic - it's time to thank the people who plan parks.
2. Baseball errors - oops, whaat?, that didn't happen, did you see that?!
3. Delivery day - new book day is still special.
The podcast's original music is from the mind of Brendan McGrath. The end bells are from the forge of Slavo Cech, Edmonton's Hephaistos.
Blog.
I'm at gl...2021-10-0105 min
Three Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 37: Snap! Crackle! Pop!Hey, thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. I use it to gently force myself to do a better job noticing the things I notice that make me feel a bit happy or a bit grateful these days. Because, these days.
This week:
1. Snap! We lost a big tree in the front yard.
2. Crackle! I got lost looking into the flames.
3. Pop! A container of memories found me.
The music in the podcast is original. From the original Edmonton pianist Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy the He...2021-09-2405 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 36: a gift of coffee, Mandelstam, tomatoesThanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. 🙏
Each week I try to make stand still three little things from my little life that made me feel happy or grateful.
Things I noticed I noticed to counter the algorithm and the algorithm politicians; things that made my happy or grateful to counter the cruelty and meanness around the table.
This week:
1. A gift of coffee - an unexpected what-happened-next to a throwaway question.
2. A Mandelstam reading - my friend Brian was kind enough to share his voice.
3. Tomato...2021-09-1705 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 35: live from the cemeteryThis week's Three Things is a bit different.
Those who know me know I am fascinated by graveyards. I'm no fan of death, no fan of dying, but I do enjoy a good cemetery.
Because:
1. They're like stamp albums.
2. You find interesting people there.
3. Puns happen there.
Thanks for dropping by and giving this week's episode a listen.
The podcast's original music is by Edmonton composer Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy the Hephaistos of Edmonton, Slavo Cech.
I am at glenn.kubis...2021-09-1006 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 34: Fashion statements, autumn leaves, single track mind🚨 Understatement Alert: These are strange and troubling times.
I find it helpful to go small, and, while not ignoring the latest giant outrages, and reacting to them, I try, too, to notice what I notice that makes me happy or grateful. To secure the bastion of sensation, as Heaney might say. It might be the only way to preserve myself.
Thanks for stopping by the Three Thing podcast. This week’s three things:
1. Fashion statements -- listening to the sisters.
2. Autumn leaves -- five fall leaves, no, four.
3. Single track...2021-09-0305 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 30: music theory, dream and reality, coffee outsideThanks for checking out the Three Things podcast. It's where I share things I noticed that I noticed, things that made me feel happy or grateful, things like:
1. A musical email composed by a brother-in-law
2. Some confusion about what was real and what was a dream
3. Coffee outside as a movement against social isolation
The main music in the podcast is from Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy the sculptor Slavo Cech.
(I still can't believe I dreamed I fell off a bridge and then, when I could...2021-08-0605 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 28: marriage, resilience, youthHope you're keeping some kind of record, said L. Cohen. And, so, once a week I spend five minutes or so keeping track of three things I noticed that made me happy or grateful. Not big things, not things in the news, just things from my little life seen from whatever point of view I am able to hang onto.
1. The happy couple - Michael and Aleasha are married
2. Resilience - Professor McIntosh shares a lesson
3. Shadow Kingdom - Dylan checks in from somewhere beyond
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.c...2021-07-2305 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 27: Dough, a deer, two pioneers...Happy end o' the week, friends! I try, each week, to notice three things that made me happy or grateful. So, there's someone other than the algorithms doing the noticing.
This week:
1. Dough - making bread will be a habit that outlives the pandemic.
2. Deer - we saw each other last week.
3. Two pioneers - Bergie and Morton on their bicycles.
Thanks for listening.
Original podcast music by Brendan McGrath. End bells courtesy Slavo Cech, the Hephaistos of Edmonton.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com2021-07-1604 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 26: tomatoes, rain, theatreEach end of the week, I try to save a little of my attention for the little things I notice that make my feel happy or grateful. There's not business model there. Which is kinda the point. :)
This week, these three things stuck:
1. Tomatoes
2. Rain, finally
3. France on stage
Thank you for listening.
The original music is d'après Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Slavo Cech.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
Peace.2021-07-0904 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 25: air, water, trees and other stuffThanks for dropping into the Three Things podcast!
I am now 25 episodes into a weekly experiment to notice three things that make me feel happy or grateful. Not big things. Just things that I noticed from my little life in my little part of Edmonton where there is a lot to notice. This week:
1. An inflated bicycle tire that gave me a perspective on problem solving.
2. The public music of a spray park.
3. Moving slower, seeing differently on a bike.
It is hot in Edmonton this week. Maybe the hottest ever. Just not as hot as the piano music on th...2021-07-0205 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 24: little trees, Pong, philosopher-mechanicWelcome to the Three Things podcast. Each week, in a quick pod, I think out loud about three things that made me happy or grateful.
Little things, usually. Things that I notice I notice. Like, this week:
1. Little trees—It took us awhile to plant those seedlings. A more than 20-years awhile.
2. Atari Pong—The game from 1973 reappeared in downtown Edmonton in 2021. Here's my hack animation of the Pong Building.
3. Philosopher-mechanic—Kevin at Redbike knows his stuff.
Thanks for giving it a listen. Have a good weekend.
I'm at...2021-06-2505 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 23: crossed paths, butterflies, live musicEach week, from the collection of the little things that happen in my little life, in a little part of Edmonton, I make a little podcast.
This is the Three Things podcast, and this is this week's list:
1. Crossing paths on a neighbourhood street.
2. Watching butterflies outside a bakery.
3. Enjoying live music, finally.
Thanks for checking it out. Means a lot to me.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
The music is the best part of the pod. It is the work of Brendan M...2021-06-1805 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 21: recommended reading, Tonka toys, a cup of copyHappy end of the week. It was a tough week. As Billy Bragg says, headlines give you headaches when you read 'em.
This little podcast is an attempt to keep my heart open to the little things I notice that make me happy or grateful. While the cardiovascular bombardment continues.
This week those three things are:
1. Reading tips I get from my friends
2. Old toys I can't get rid of.
3. A not-so-healthy glimpse into how someone thinks for me.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com. I blo...2021-06-1104 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 20: spuds, squirrels, steelThanks so much for giving this little podcast a listen.
The focus on spuds, squirrels and steel doesn't mean very difficult things didn't happen this past week. I am trying to build a habit of noticing what I notice. I notice I notice little things, I suppose.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com.
The podcast music, easiest the best part of the production, is by Brendan McGrath.
The end bells are courtesy Slavo Cech. His dad was injured a bit this week. He's getting better. That's great. 2021-06-0404 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 18: harmony, bird on metronome, fireworksThanks for dropping by the podcast.
I try at the end of each week to make note of three things I noticed that made me happy and grateful. Little stuff from my little life.
This week: harmony while making Spanish rice, the music of a red-winged blackbird, and fireworks where I didn't expect to see them.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
Music by Brendan McGrath.
End bells courtesy Slavo Cech.
Blue Rodeo used with permission.
Have a good week, y'all. 2021-05-2104 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton: Episode 17: sharks, phones, matchesThank you for listening. It means a lot.
The idea behind this little podcast is kinda simple. I want to do a better job noticing the stuff of my own life. Mundane stuff, like, this week:
1. Sharks, with a little bit of Rob Ford. 🦈
2. Phones, with a little bit of poutine. ☎️
3. Matches, with a little bit of sound. 🔥
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
TheMalibuArtist is at https://www.youtube.com/user/MalibuArtist
Original music by Brendan McGrath.
End bells by th...2021-05-1406 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 16: bees, gears, eggsHappy end of the week, everyone. Each end of the week I drop three things that made me happy or grateful. Not because the grim out there doesn’t register, but, because, it does.
This week:
The Spelling Bee 🐝
Bicycle gears ⚙️
Eggs 🥚
Thanks for listening.
I’m at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
Music by Brendan McGrath 🎹
End bells by Slavo Cech 🔥2021-05-0705 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 15A matinee movie where I didn't expect to watch it...a pair of old shoes nearing their sad end...the making of morning coffee—these were the three things from my mundane life that made me happy and grateful this week. 📽️ 👟🔚 ☕
I am trying to do a better job of noticing things for myself, and noticing that I notice. Otherwise it's more of noticing what powerful people and their algorithms want me to notice.
Thank you for listening, and for your kind words. I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
Music by Brendan McGrath 🎹
En...2021-04-3005 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 14A sudden connection to Finland...a flashing stop light hand on a street corner in Edmonton...a lost and forgotten and resurfaced photo—these are the three things that made me happy and grateful this week.
Noticing three little things from my own life is the little idea behind this podcast. Doing that every week will, I trust, I hope, protect and grow the little noticing part of me that, I fear, needs some help against all the forces that would be okay doing my noticing for me.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
2021-04-2305 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 13Thanks for listening!
This little podcast is an attempt to take back for myself a little control over what I notice in my life. Each week, I try to notice three things that make me happy or grateful. Not that there isn't a full serving of anger to be consumed. It's just a gut feeling that noticing the little things will add up. Things, this week, like:
🕍 House guests, finally.
✍️ A boy on his bike.
🚰 Open water, finally.
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
The bells at the end...2021-04-1604 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 12I am trying to build a new habit. Each week, I try to notice three things—small, mundane things from my little life—that made me happy or grateful. And say them out loud here.
Not because there isn't more to notice that is heart-breaking or unjust or unfair.
It's more that I feel if I don't notice the stuff of my own life, I am at the whim of whatever algorithm shapes my noticing into outrage and fear.
This week, it's small stuff, friends.
🌉 A bridge
👣 A bit of earth unde...2021-04-0904 min
Three Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 11Happy end of the week, everyone. Thanks for checking out the Three Things podcast. Every week I make a short list of everyday things that made me happy or grateful. And then say it out loud here. Not to not see the other stuff that is wrong or dangerous or heart-breaking. But just to try to keep some control over what I notice. Algorithm of outrage, take that!
This week:
🌖 The moon.
🍤 The seafood.
📫 The gift in the mail.
I am at glenn.kubish@edmonton.ca
2021-04-0205 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 10Happy end of the week!
At the end of each week I try to notice, and say out loud, three things from everyday life that made me happy or grateful. So, I get back to doing my own noticing, taking that back from the algorithm. Things like:
1. The front-yard chickadees
2. Meeting Hazel
3. Pasta and teamwork
Thanks for dropping in.
I'm at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
The end time bells are courtesy Slavo Cech. 2021-03-2605 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 9 🧊 🌲 🚲 🌲 ✏️On Fridays I try to stop and make stand still, for a few seconds, three things that made me happy or grateful in the past week.
Not big things. Very not big things, actually.
Like, this week:
The ice.
The bike trails.
The pencils.
It's important for me to say these three things out loud.
So, thanks for listening. :)
I'm at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
End bells courtesy Slavo Cech.2021-03-1905 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 8I have found that if I don't try to narrate my own life, somebody else does, and, all of a sudden, I have passionate opinions about the Royal Family, or whatever. :)
So, each week, I try to notice and hold onto three thing that make me happy or grateful. Not to be selfish. Just to notice that I am noticing. Little things.
This week:
1. Geese
2. Coffee mugs
3. Shoelaces
I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
End bells courtesy Slavo Cech.
2021-03-1203 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 6Don't get me wrong. :) The reason I put together a weekly summary of things I am happy and grateful for isn't because I don't see and feel all the other stuff that makes me unhappy. (One too many negatives there?! You know what I mean!) It's more that there seems to be a default position set at anger and outrage that's good for somebody's bottom line, but not mine.
So I am trying to train myself to notice and hold onto three things every week. This week's resistance by listing includes:
1. Shelagh's laughter
2. Th...2021-02-2604 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 5It's helpful to try to notice and then try to hang onto some things that make you happy and grateful each week.
This week for me: Masai Ujiri, Richard Ozero, and moose.
I'm at glenn.kubish@gmail.com
End bells courtesy Slavo Cech.2021-02-1904 minThree Things from EdmontonThree Things from Edmonton - Episode 4Don't get me wrong. There's a lot out there that's not good that needs attention. I just feel I also need to notice and hang onto a few things that make me happy and grateful each week. So that I find a rhythm besides the algorithm. This week: birds, dogs and a Nobel Prize winner.
End bells courtesy Slavo Cech.
I'm at glenn.kubish@gmail.com2021-02-1204 min