Three Things from Edmonton

Hello, 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...

Hello, 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 Rea...

Hello, 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....

Hello, 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...

Hello, 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. Sop...

Hello, 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...

Hello, and thanks very much for dropping by the Three Things podcast.  Each week I try to notice and make stand still three things that I noticed made me feel happy or grateful. Because...because the option is obliteration by algorithm.  This week: 1. Hauling dolly - the question was how to get the dolly downtown. 2. Auntie Shelagh with a knife in the kitchen - a tribute to the love cook...

Hello, 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, confoun...

Thanks for stopping by the Three Things podcast.  Here's my bet, and maybe it's a long shot, but if I can do a better job noticing what I notice that makes me happy and grateful each week, and then say those things out loud, that won't be a waste of time. This week's Three Things:  1. Firestarter - A found lighter triggered a the memory of an illuminating conversation. 2. Tomatology - I'...

Welcome 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 Bren...

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...

Thanks 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 w...

This 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...

🚨 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 t...

Hello, and thanks for stopping by the Three Thing podcast. I try once a week to notice without the help of advertisers or algorithms three things that made me happy or grateful. This week:  1. Life & Death valley -- The MacKinnon Ravine is a place to stop and read the plaques. 2. Casting a spell? -- Some second thoughts about a piece of campaign literature. 3. Venn diagrams -- The real li...

Thanks for dropping by the Three Things podcast and considering the donation of 5 minutes and 5 seconds of your time. Each end of the week here, I look back and try to make stand still three things I noticed I noticed last week. Not mind-blowing or life-altering things. Just things that I noticed; that is, things that weren't noticed for me.  This week, these are the kind of things I mean. It...

Thanks so much for dropping by the Three Things podcast. I wanted to find a podcast that celebrated the small things we notice that make us happy or grateful. So, I made my own. Which is kinda the point. What we give our attention to, what we notice, that's the whole game.  This week:  1. Bon Ton mots - I noticed something different at my fave bakery last week 2. A sign of laughter - Mor...

Thanks 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 cour...

Thanks for listening to the Three Things podcast. Each week, I try to notice the things I am noticing, especially the things that make me happy or grateful. So many people and algorithms want to do my noticing for me. This is a bit of resistance, and it's open to all of us.  This week, those three things are: 1. A play by Sophocles set in a garage in Parkview. Ours. 2. The sky. It's good when...

Hope 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...

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.  Orig...

Each 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 a...

Thanks 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...

Welcome 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 P...

Each 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@gmai...