Glenn Kubish

The Canadas are conducting test flights, friends. It’s September-time in Edmonton. Here are three other things that left behind signs   of happiness and gratitude last week.   Three Things podcast, episode 137:                               1. Small world   I saw two Fringe plays this time around. God is a Scottish Drag Queen played to big laughs at the Garneau. Okay, Come On, Where Do We Know Each Other From? played to a smaller but engaged audience at Sugared & Spiced Baked Goods, the wonderful bakery in the alley in Old Strathcona. Okay, Come On, Where Do We Know Each Other From? is a mystery. The version that I attended starred Shelagh and Patti, both customers at the bakery that morning. It played out as they looked at each other, realized that their paths had crossed somewhere, sometime. Their lines were familiar. How do I know you? and, I know, right? You look so familiar? With Jeff the ...

  Happy end of the week, friends. To keep the noticing equipment from disintegrating, here are three things I noticed I noticed that made me feel happy or grateful. (Just a little longer today. It takes Arendt awhile to get to the point.) Episode 75:                                1. Taking readings   Monday morning’s first stop, even before the bathroom, even before coffee, was the mailbox. The New York Times Sunday edition is delivered overnight. One pound of news. I scanned the headlines. In Ukraine, an ‘Endless Caravan of Death’ ... How Gun Makers Harness Fear to Supercharge Sales ... A Key Hurdle for Prosecutors: Proving What Trump Believed . I am slightly consoled by the mere organization of the newspaper—all this havoc made to fit in boxes, all the power and greed’s copy neatly standing in perfect towers of print, left and right justified. If the message were the medium, a newspaper would b...