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Three Things from Edmonton podcast - Episode 82: sounding familiar, segments, whales

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Happy end of the week, y’all. This week’s list of three little things from my life that I noticed I noticed made me happy or grateful starts, as they say in TV news, right now.                               1. Sounding familiar   The sounds I heard proved that the Edmonton Folk Music Festival was back. The Folk Fest is about the musicians, but it’s not just their sounds I’m thinking about. There were other notes. Like the question at the top of the hill, "Any glass or alcohol in your bags?" It was actually pretty good to hear that question again and everyone replying no, no, and the good natured volunteers believing them and wishing them a good day on the hill. And the now, where the %^# is my tarp? question. It was good to hear befuddled people standing on the quilted Gallagher Park hill and again asking out loud that fundamental question of place.  What can I get for you? at the beer pavilion was a tr...