Three Things from Edmonton

Hello, 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 spe...

Thanks 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 a...

Thanks 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...

Thanks 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 cros...

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...

Thanks 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,...

Thanks 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, tho...

Thank 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...

Thanks 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 – mu...

Thanks 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...

Hello, 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 we...

It’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...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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,...

Hello 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 no...

Thanks 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....

Welcome 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 mus...

Hello, 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...

Thanks 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...

Hello, 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...

Happy 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 be...

Thanks 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 orig...

Thanks 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 B...

Hello, 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 bac...