Three Things from Edmonton

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 Ce...

Thanks 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 w...

Thanks 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, f...

Thanks 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 Platte...

Thank 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...

Hello, 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 –...

Thanks 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. Soun...

Hello 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 p...

Hello, 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 p...

Hello, 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 Ja...

From 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. Bal...

Hello, 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 f...

Happy 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...

Happy 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 re...

Happy 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 se...

Thanks 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 sound...

Thanks 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 refle...

Thanks 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...

Hello, 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 Tapro...

Thanks 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.co...

Thanks 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 m...

Thanks 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 t...

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 i...

Thanks 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....

Thanks 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 . Maki...