Glenn Kubish

Happy end of the week, friends. Once a week I try to notice what I noticed made me happy or grateful, remember it, and then record it. So the noticing equipment doesn’t completely calcify. This week:                                 1. Flash of time   Placeline: middle of summer, Delwood, northeast Edmonton, 1978. I was 14 years old. Boston’s second album was still a couple of weeks away from landing at A&A Records in Londonderry Mall. What was there to do? Well, Edmonton at that time was about to host the Commonwealth Games. There was a new LRT line downtown. The Queen was staying at the Westin Hotel and would, the former Edmonton Journal reported, walk out of the hotel at such-and-such o’clock on her way to an evening function with so-and-so important people. I grabbed my camera and caught a train downtown from Belvedere Station.   The Kodak EK100 Instant camera, which emitted a snapshot from ...

This morning's bike ride downtown was nothing extraordinary. But there were some things worth noticing. The big tree on 101 Ave was all in at the photosynthesis roulette table. On green. At the shared use path trailhead, I felt like a spoke in a fancy dance. My friend Brian suggested Strauss. I said hello to a pedestrian heading south. I said hello to a magpie heading north. I correctly predicted that the white Uber would right hook across my path. I heard 10,000 Maniacs. I waved to Karly, who I count among my bicycling friends. I said hello to Jason as we arrived at Edmonton Tower. My morning had unfolded nicely. The day took unique turns. I guided Milan to City Centre Mall. He had a stroke three years ago. He was off to buy razors. I took a photograph from 1978 back to the exact place I took it on a Kodak Instant Camera as a 14-year-old kid. I loved that camera. I told the story to Eric and Brad fr...