Glenn Kubish

  Happy end of the week, amigos!   Here, after internal review, are three things that made for some happiness or gratitude this week. Three Things, episode 69:                                             1. Away  🇪🇸 My friend Richie posted a vacation video of himself doing what he does a lot of in his spare time when he’s not on vacation, which is the point of vacations, I think. True, the video of him cycling is from the hills of Spain, not the hills of Gatineau, but pedalling a bicycle for joy is pedalling a bicycle for joy. Richie’s video is joyful and beautiful and, with the twisting highway, dramatic rock face and blue sky, elemental. For a bit of hometown Toronto, he added audio of a Skydiggers song, the lyric from Slow  Burning Fire where Andy Maize sings   But lately I’ve caught you   Staring at me   With a new kind of look on your fa...

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...