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Three Things from Edmonton

by Glenn Kubish

Every Friday I collect three things from the week gone by that made me happy. Big things, small things. They add up.

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Episodes

  1. Three Things from Edmonton -- Episode 147: CN, time signature, gaslighting

    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…

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  2. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 146: grim reaper, fellowship of the rinks, alliteration

    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...

  3. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 145: goalies, first snow, cross-examination

    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…

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  4. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 144: the universe and the fundamental attribution error, waiting in line, above the fold

    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...

  5. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 143: weather map, Shelagh in Italy, class reunion

    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...

  6. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 142: wedding, Margaritaville, friendly face

    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…

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  7. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 141: Italy, garages, long play

    Thanks from dropping by the podcast. Here are three things from the week gone by 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...

  8. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 140: experts, tomatoes, relay

    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...

  9. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 139: sounds of summer, replay, poets

    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...

  10. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 138: microscopes, jackknife, drama

    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...

  11. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 137: small world, licence plates, destinations

    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.…

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  12. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 136: remains, laughter, Blue Rodeo

    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.…

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  13. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 135: tarps, food, Darlingside

    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...

  14. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 134: baseball, roots, body

    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…

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  15. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 133: Oppenheimer, magpies, close calls

    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...

  16. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 132: cemeteries, electricity, witness

    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...

  17. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 131: language, movies, trains

    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...

  18. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 130: The Tour, sleep, ruins

    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...

  19. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 129: double play, Poe at Faraone, real scoop

    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 –...

  20. 🇨🇦 Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 128: noses, life sentence, leftovers

    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...

  21. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 127: meow! red, 1

    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 –…

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  22. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 126: strong ads, squeak, cats

    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…

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  23. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 125: bridge lights, a stick of butter, flying home

    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…

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  24. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 124: soft rain, Hard Rain, chainsaw

    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...

  25. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 123: classics, filling stations, going Dutch

    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,...

  26. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 122: tulips, infidelity, chalk

    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....

  27. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 121: old film, bottom line, anemone

    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…

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  28. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 120: teamwork, statue, the wind

    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…

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  29. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 119: The Stoics, the winter, the dead

    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...

  30. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 118: special sauce, youngsters, percussion

    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...

  31. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 117: Scrabble, colour, reading

    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...

  32. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 116: 48, 49, 50

    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?...

  33. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 115: downtown vibrancy, 118 Ave, water in the house

    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...

  34. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 114: resources, the East, the West

    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...

  35. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 113: digging, building faces, music room

    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,...

  36. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 112: medium/message, curling, liner notes

    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...

  37. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 111: socks, serious dream, maracas

    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...

  38. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 110: timing, specifically, sounds of home

    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...

  39. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 109: Boss, belief, bike

    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,...

  40. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 108: waves, radio, resonance

    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...

  41. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 107: print, dolphins, crunch

    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....

  42. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 106: comma, streeter, jerky

    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…

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  43. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 105: magic, misdirection, observation

    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…

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  44. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 104: Snow dome, statues, sheet music

    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…

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  45. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 103: palimpsest, family history, long view

    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…

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  46. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 102: sliding home, strings, intersection

    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...

  47. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 101: family, what a drag!, Zamboni

    -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?...

  48. Three Things from Edmonton – Episode 100: wherewithal, Professors Plumb, reunion

    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...

  49. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 99: cold comfort, theory, Indy scene

    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....

  50. Three Things from Edmonton - Episode 98: hope and feathers, soccer balls, building lights

    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...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Every Friday I collect three things from the week gone by that made me happy. Big things, small things. They add up.

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Glenn Kubish

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