Three Things from Edmonton

Hello, and thanks for stopping by the Three Things podcast. This is where I try to keep some kind of record of the little things that made for some happiness and gratitude while the maelstrom keeps doing what it does—maelstroming. This week’s offerings:  1. Tulips – Audrey Hepburn in Crestwood. 2. Infidelity – A short reflection on a valuable bit of TV news theory I still carry with me. It helps i...

Hello, and thanks for dropping by the podcast, my weekly/weakly (Differs By A Letter was a Jeopardy category this week) effort to insert into the maelstrom a few bits of countercyclical force—things that made for some happiness and gratitude, I mean. This week those mundane things were:  1. Old film – not the celluloid stuff, but, rather, the memories that friends play back. 2. Bottom line – What’...

Hello, happy spring to all friends and buds, thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast for a listen to a short collection of three things from the week that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude. This week’s offering:  1. Teamwork – Thanks to some great work in the truck, TV audiences got to see leadership in action from Oilers capitán Connor McDavid. 2. Statue – The legend lives on....

Thanks for dropping by the podcast, now a healthy 119 episodes old. Once a week, the task is to stop to notice having noticed three things from my life that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude. In case I ever, like, tomorrow, need markers for the way back. This week:  1. The Stoics – I spent some time talking to our son Alex about our game, hockey. 2. The winter – What are you doing next...

Thanks so much for dropping by to give the podcast a listen. In trying to notice what I noticed made me feel happy or grateful, and then remembering those things, and then recording them, I am trying to remain true to a promise I made myself to do those three things once a week. I remember when I made that promise. What ever happened to the part of you that noticed every changing wind? I made that...

Hello from our basement in west Edmonton, and thanks for dropping by to take a listen to the podcast. The entire editorial and production team appreciates the gift of your time. Here are three things from my little life that left behind still discernible tracks of happiness and gratitude. As the great Tyson said, get it all done before she goes.  1. Scrabble – I’m trying to find the words to descr...

Thanks for dropping by the podcast. Edmonton is in the season that many people wait endure the winter to get to: playoff hockey season. The hometown Oilers are playoff bound. And, yes, McDavid has been elevated to a minor deity in this city, but, come on, have you been watching Draisaitl lately? And, so, this week, Leon Draisaitl goals  48 49, and 50  in one game against the Ducks are this week’s...

Hello from west Edmonton, and welcome to the Three Things podcast. The premise of the podcast is straightforward, and easily replicable: try to notice three things from my own life that leave behind tracks of happiness and gratitude. Turn down the loud speakers, try to ignore the algorithms and just try to notice what I notice. This week: 1. Downtown vibrancy – some notes from a concert at McDouga...

Hello, welcome to spring, bonjour from Edmonton. For those who still follow the French Republican calendar, bienvenue à la saison Germinal. For those who follow Ian Tyson, we’ve made it through another on the Northern Range. Here are three things that left behind some tracks of happiness and gratitude as we did:  1. Resources - What I have learned teaching.  2. The East - What I found at the Nova...

Thanks so much for dropping by the podcast. It’s a little experiment, going on 113 experiments now, to see, if, in the maelstrom that is life in 2023, I can invoke the stillness to name three things that made for some happiness and gratitude each week. I am always grateful to hear from you, especially when you share your own stories of happiness and gratitude. This week’s offering from me: 1. Digg...

Hello, and thanks for dropping for the podcast. I remember the day 112 episodes ago I realized I wasn’t realizing enough. I noticed more was being noticed for me than ever before—the algorithms, the politicians, the news media, the general anger out there. So I resolved to try to notice more of what I was noticing, and, to boot, try to notice things that made for some happiness and gratitude. I ge...

Hello, 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...

Hello, 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 r...

Hello 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 Edmont...

Thanks 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...

Thanks 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....

Welcome 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 podc...

Thanks 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 l...

Hello 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. Statue...

Thanks 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 th...

Hello 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....

-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...

Hello 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 McD...

Welcome 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. Theor...

Hello 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. Buildin...