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:

The music in the podcast is original. It’s from the overflowing talent that is Edmonton pianist and composer Brendan McGrath. Slavo Cech, the Hephaistos of Edmonton, chipped in with the end bells, as usual.

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Happy holidays.

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:

The original music in the podcast is from an Edmonton original, Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Slavo Cech, the Hephaistos of Edmonton.

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Have a good week, friends.

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. Frazil ice - it's a gorgeous piece of living on latitude 53 this time of year

2. My feet - that pair, plus the poetic versions

3. A spectacle - Commonwealth Stadium in the north end cold for the victory against México!

The original music in the podcast is from an Edmonton original, Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Slavo Cech, the Hephaistos of this city. 

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Stay warm, take care.

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 that each week's three things are momentous noticings. But they're mine. Or mostly mine. Or somewhat mine. This week: 

1. Reliable sources - I went riding with Hogey and was struck by his mental recall equipment. 

2. Magpie culpa - Magpies and me. It's complicated.

3. Darkness - It's that time of the year in Edmonton, again. 

The original music in the podcast is from the original Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy Slavo Cech, the Hephaistos of Edmonton. 

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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. Sophie - Last time it was cucumbers. This time, we talked beets.

3. Jack (Frost) of Diamonds - A chance encounter with the poet in an empty field in southwest Edmonton.

The truly original part of the podcast is the music of the truly original Brendan McGrath. As alway, the closing end notes are provided by Slavo Cech, the Hephaistos of Edmonton. Ye, forge he's a jolly good fellow. 

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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 in Edmonton, near 121 Street. 

2. Water bottle music - I happened to see something on my bike that isn't really there, but either are the coyotes I saw on Ravine Drive. 

3. Instant replay -- I am trying to apply the visual grammar of the televised World Series to my little life here and there. 

The original music from the podcast is from an Edmonton original, Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy the sculptor Slavo Cech, the Hephaistos of Edmonton. 

I'm at [email protected]

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 cooked up at our place.

3. La bella luna - watching the moon from the MacKinnon Ravine bridge.

The music in the podcast is original. It's from Edmonton composer Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy the Hephaistos of Edmonton, the large-hearted Slavo Cech. 

Take care.

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, confound the merchants of anger and outrage. 

This week:

1. Instrument light rules -- getting going at this time of year up here means we're left to our own devices 

2. Popcorn - my love of popcorn goes way back

3. Artifice - I've been thinking about how we talk about nature

The podcast's original music is by Edmonton composer and pianist and chill dude Brendan McGrath.

Slavo Cech, the Hephaistos of Edmonton, provides the end bells.

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Take care.

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'm not alone.

3. Family - Tweetin' with Lyle Lovett.

The original music in the podcast is from Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy the Hephaistos of Edmonton, Slavo Cech. 

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Take care.

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 Brendan McGrath. The end bells are from the forge of Slavo Cech, Edmonton's Hephaistos. 

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Peace.