Thank you for listening. It means a lot.

The idea behind this little podcast is kinda simple. I want to do a better job noticing the stuff of my own life. Mundane stuff, like, this week:

1. Sharks, with a little bit of Rob Ford. 🦈

2. Phones, with a little bit of poutine.  ☎️

3. Matches, with a little bit of sound. 🔥

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Original music by Brendan McGrath.

End bells by the original Slavo Cech. 

Happy end of the week, everyone. Each end of the week I drop three things that made me happy or grateful. Not because the grim out there doesn’t register, but, because, it does.

This week:

Thanks for listening.

I’m at [email protected]

Music by Brendan McGrath 🎹

End bells by Slavo Cech 🔥

A matinee movie where I didn't expect to watch it...a pair of old shoes nearing their sad end...the making of morning coffee—these were the three things from my mundane life that made me happy and grateful this week. 📽️  👟🔚   ☕

I am trying to do a better job of noticing things for myself, and noticing that I notice. Otherwise it's more of noticing what powerful people and their algorithms want me to notice. 

Thank you for listening, and for your kind words. I am at [email protected]

Music by Brendan McGrath 🎹

End bells by Slavo Cech 🔥

A sudden connection to Finland...a flashing stop light hand on a street corner in Edmonton...a lost and forgotten and resurfaced photo—these are the three things that made me happy and grateful this week. 

Noticing three little things from my own life is the little idea behind this podcast. Doing that every week will, I trust, I hope, protect and grow the little noticing part of me that, I fear, needs some help against all the forces that would be okay doing my noticing for me. 

I am at [email protected]

The end bells are courtesy the Edmonton artist Slavo Cech. I went to high school with him.

Thanks for listening!

This little podcast is an attempt to take back for myself a little control over what I notice in my life. Each week, I try to notice three things that make me happy or grateful. Not that there isn't a full serving of anger to be consumed. It's just a gut feeling that noticing the little things will add up. Things, this week, like:

🕍 House guests, finally.

✍️ A boy on his bike.

🚰 Open water, finally.

I am at [email protected]

The bells at the end of each episode are courtesy the artist Slavo Cech.

I am trying to build a new habit. Each week, I try to notice three things—small, mundane things from my little life—that made me happy or grateful. And say them out loud here.

Not because there isn't more to notice that is heart-breaking or unjust or unfair. 

It's more that I feel if I don't notice the stuff of my own life, I am at the whim of whatever algorithm shapes my noticing into outrage and fear.

This week, it's small stuff, friends. 

🌉 A bridge 

👣 A bit of earth underfoot

😫 A few puns

Thanks for listening. 

I am at [email protected]

End bells courtesy Slavo Cech

Happy end of the week, everyone. Thanks for checking out the Three Things podcast. Every week I make a short list of everyday things that made me happy or grateful. And then say it out loud here. Not to not see the other stuff that is wrong or dangerous or heart-breaking. But just to try to keep some control over what I notice. Algorithm of outrage, take that!

This week:

🌖 The moon. 

🍤 The seafood.

📫 The gift in the mail. 

I am at [email protected] 

Happy end of the week!

At the end of each week I try to notice, and say out loud, three things from everyday life that made me happy or grateful. So, I get back to doing my own noticing, taking that back from the algorithm. Things like: 

1. The front-yard chickadees

2. Meeting Hazel

3. Pasta and teamwork

Thanks for dropping in. 

I'm at [email protected]

The end time bells are courtesy Slavo Cech. 

On Fridays I try to stop and make stand still, for a few seconds, three things that made me happy or grateful in the past week. 

Not big things. Very not big things, actually. 

Like, this week:

The ice.

The bike trails.

The pencils. 

It's important for me to say these three things out loud. 

So, thanks for listening. :)

I'm at [email protected]

End bells courtesy Slavo Cech.

I have found that if I don't try to narrate my own life, somebody else does, and, all of a sudden, I have passionate opinions about the Royal Family, or whatever. :)

So, each week, I try to notice and hold onto three thing that make me happy or grateful. Not to be selfish. Just to notice that I am noticing. Little things.

This week:

1. Geese

2. Coffee mugs

3. Shoelaces

I am at [email protected]

End bells courtesy Slavo Cech.