Three Things from Edmonton

Thanks for dropping by the podcast! Hope things are good at your end. This week's three things: 1. CN -- one day I'll take a couple of youngsters with me to the CN Tower. The one in Edmonton, I mean. 2. Time signature -- I've been listening to the old-new Beatles song. 3. Gaslighting -- A good book and a good movie came together. Th original music in the podcast is composed and perform...

Thanks for dropping by the podcast this week! It dropped a bit late. This might be the new drop date, we’ll see! This week’s troika:  Grim Reaper – Our door was darkened last week. Fellowship of the rinks – My mom got to remembering! Alliteration – Dylan is to be heard, not just read. The original podcast music is from Edmonton pianist and composer Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy of Ed...

Hello, thanks very much for dropping by the Three Things podcast. Predictably, here are the three unpredictable things that made for some happiness and gratitude this week:  1. Goalies – I was struck by the generosity of the answers given by Winnipeg Jets’ netminder Connor Hellebuyck.  2. First snow – First snow means first questions here in YEG.  3. Cross-examination – Under the influence of coug...

Thanks for dropping by the podcast! This is where I try to notice little things from my life that left behind tracks of gratitude and happiness. Basically being a shut in and still fighting whatever it is that has taken up residence rent free in my chest and throat, I was a bit more introspective this week.  1. Confirmation bias – the universe didn’t unroll as I thought it might 2. Waiting in line...

Thanks for checking out the little podcast. And it is little. Piddly little. I mean, three little things that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude when the news is what it is? Come on, I sometimes answer myself. But, other times, there is a quieter voice that says, keep going, don’t be blind, but take a few minutes to put some stuff on the other side of the scale, too. This week’s other t...

Thanks for dropping by to give the podcast a few minutes of your time. The gift of your time is appreciated. I started the podcast as a way to force myself to notice the things of my own life, a reaction, perhaps, to all the noticing the attention merchants are doing for me. I have nothing against them. I just need some counterweights. Three counterweights each week. This week:  1. Wedding – Aimée...

Thanks from dropping by the podcast. Here are three things from the week gone by <insert speed sound effect here> that left behind traces of happiness and gratitude.  1. Italy – Here comes Shelagh! 2. Garages – Strange places, garages are.  3. Long play – Dylan and a few of the Heartbreakers surface unexpectedly in Indiana. How does it feel? The original music in the podcast is from Edmonton...

Hello and happy end of summer 2023 from Edmonton. Here, fall lasts between 14 minutes and about three weeks. We’ll see! While waiting for autumn’s rapid or less-rapid transition into pre-winter, it’s a decent use of time to make note of things that make for happiness or gratitude in our lives. So the winterweathermongers don’t win the day. For me, this week:  1. Experts – I don’t miss all of them,...

Hello and thanks for dropping by the podcast. Here are three things that left behind notes of happiness and gratitude last week:  1. Sounds of summer – They are in their final days. 2. Replay – There are some benefits to attending a conference in our dining room 3. Poets – RIP, Jimmy Buffett.  The music in the podcast is original. It is the work of Edmonton pianist and composer Brendan McGrath. Th...

Back to school is in the air! I trust that you all have your duo-tangs, hole reinforcements for binders and your inky-pink erasers. Or have helped others get their school supplies. Here are three other things from the past (week) that left behind traces of  happiness and gratitude, with a nod to good  teachers and their enduring effect on us. Microscopes – Plant or animal, that was, and wasn’t, th...

Welcome to the Three Things podcast, it’s cool that you’re here. From each care-worn week, I try to steal a few minutes to notice three things that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude, remember those things and then record those things. So keep some kind or record of those noticings. This week’s offering:  1. Small world – There are people you know who bring people you don’t know togethe...

Thanks for stopping by the podcast! It’s just a bit longer this week, but it’s guaranteed to make you laugh. If you haven’t laughed by the start of the third thing, then the guarantee failed and you qualify for a full refund. Let’s get the show on the road. This week’s three things are:  1. Remains – Finding a bit of meaning in the stream of things, some semantics in the signals.  2. Laughter – Se...

Thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast. It’s a tradition here to devote the episode after the Edmonton Folk Music Festival to the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. And, so, in keeping with podcast tradition, this week’s three things are:  1. Tarps – a connection between the iconic look of Gallagher Hill and a library book reader I came across in line 2. Food – on site, off site, the story of...

Hello from Edmonton, thanks for dropping by my little podcast. It’s an experiment in trying to preserve my meager noticing equipment before it rusts over from lack of use. This week’s noticings:  1. Baseball – a Riverhawks game is a very Edmonton experience. 2. Roots – What do you do when you find a root on your route? 3. Body – A hand-addressed thank you note is still worth the effort. The origin...

Hello from Edmonton’s Parkview neighbourhood, thanks for dropping by the podcast. Here is this week’s menu of three things that I noticed I noticed made me happy or, if not happy, at least, grateful:  1. Oppenheimer - I love going to the movies when the movies are this big and this epic and this contemporary. Shelagh and I went to Oppenheimer twice. That’s six hours with the popcorn. 2. Magpies -...

Three 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 ru...

Thanks so much for dropping by the Three Things podcast! Here is where I try to hit the pause button on the flow of time (can’t be done, but the illusion is worthwhile) and fish out three things that made for some happiness and gratitude. This week, those little beings were:  1. Language – I listened while a young father relayed an old truth in language to his young daughter. 2. Movies – I got luc...

Thanks for dropping by the podcast, friends. I try my best once a week to preserve the time it takes to notice, remember and the make a record of three things that made for some happiness and gratitude in my little life. This week those three things are:  1. Le Tour – the Tour de France is my favourite kind of TV. 2. Sleep – sometimes, you get the sleep you need.  3. Ruins – some squash, some thun...

Welcome back to the podcast, friends. Thank you for the gift of your time. Here’s this week’s short list of three things that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude in my little life up here on latitude 53:  1. Double play – I love baseball. Can’t play it. But love it. 2. Poe at Faraone – Just like that, Baltimore’s favourite literary son turned up at our weekly Coffee Outside gathering. 3....

Thanks for stopping by the podcast. This is where I try to live out a promise that I made myself to tone down the algorithmed default anger (saving the emotion for the real outrages, and there are many) and, instead, use whatever meager noticing equipment I have  to make note of things that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude. This week’s offering: 1. Noses – thoughts occasioned by a fac...

Happy summer from Edmonton, where it’s been smoky, sunny, windy and rainy. It’s an elemental place. While we’re waiting to see how bad the mosquitoes will be, here are three things that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude. 1. Meow! – The day Fred Penner came back to Edmonton. 2. Red – The internal debate continues, this time with some communications theory. 3. 1 – That’s how old Little B...

Thanks for dropping by the podcast. It was tough this week to watch former colleagues get the axe from Bell. I admired Tom Walters, especially. Great writer, great newsman, went where the story asked him to go, always willing to confront Pocklington with a unexpected question.  Just want to put that on the record, as they used to say.  Back now to regularly scheduled podcasting, and three things t...

Thanks for checking out this week’s Three Things podcast. Last week, Shelagh and I were in Vangroovy, as our friend Fitz calls it. Along with our checked baggage, I brought home three pieces of thankfulness and gratitude: 1. Bridge lights – you run into former ATB Financial boss Dave Mowat when you least expect it. 2. A stick of butter – or, an ode to Rhiannon at Whole Foods on Robson Street. 3. F...

Thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast! This is where I practise stopping to remember and record three things from my little life that left behind tracks of gratitude and happiness. This week, for your consideration, those three things were:  1. Soft rain – These are elemental days in northern Alberta 2. Hard Rain – It’s been a-falling for sixty years now. 3. Chainsaw – Teething pains aft...

Hello and thanks for dropping by the podcast. These have been difficult days here. Forest fires not far away have put people in flight. Property is cindered. The smoke has been in the city, you could taste it inside the house, it’s awful. These are elemental days. Again, we talk of fire, water, earth and wind.  The Red Cross is accepting donations for fire relief .  Here are three things that left...