Glenn Kubish

Here are three things that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude. We keep going, right? Three Things, episode 113:                                            1. Digging   I am drawn to the CN Tower. Not that CN Tower. I mean, Edmonton’s CN Tower at the north end of 100 Street downtown, the original CN Tower. Its name is borderline obsolete, sure. At 26 storeys, it’s not so towering. And the railway company no longer has a presence in the building, even though its logo, the good old twisted paper clip, still adorns the structure at base and tip. When I was a boy, the basement of the building housed the train station and it was from there that trips to visit the Winnipeg grandparents commenced. Waiting for Christmas morning was a snap compared to the agony of waiting for the train to wake up and, abruptly, with a jolt, head east.   “Are you looking for something ...

  Here a three little things that made for some happiness and gratitude this past week:                                                            1. Snow dome   Shelagh named the tune right away. She’s good at that. She knows what’s playing wherever she is, kinda like a virtual assistant, but real-er. The Pretenders, Middle of the Road, she’ll say, when we’re in a noisy restaurant where I hear only a cacophony of voices and cutlery. This time it was a symphony she picked off. We were in the car driving back from breakfast. The radio was on CBC FM. “Sibelius,” she said.  I first heard his Symphony #2 more than 30 years ago on vinyl at her place in Queen Mary Park, Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic. We experienced the music again in 2019 when Alexander Prior and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra pumped...