Three Things from Edmonton podcast - episode 36: coffee gift, Mandelstam, gift of produce
From Edmonton, Canada, happy end of the week, friends. Here are three things that I noticed made me happy or grateful this week. This week's podcast and transcript. 1. Human beans ☕ I was out for a morning bike ride and was coming up to a construction crew putting in new sidewalks on Saskatchewan Drive near the Humanities Building. Infrastructure scenes are rich. Hard hats, big boots, worn jeans, rumbling cement trucks, laughter, cigarettes held ash tip and ember pointed in—and the greatest care with rakes and trowels to set the sidewalks as perfect as paragraphs. Anyways, three workers were just ahead of me, kneeling down, stirring their coffees. “Looks like I arrived at the right time for coffee,” I said as I passed, as a joke, a throwaway question. Without a second of delay, buddy says back to me, “Brother, how do you take yours? Cream? Sugar? Just black?” “Half a cup,” I said, “just black, you are very kind.” “Absolutely,” he said, “it...