Every Thursday (or sometimes like today, on a Friday), I share three good things from today, in the past week, and/or in the week or weeks to come, to focus on what is good. I encourage you to share in the comments your three good things too, if you want. I was introduced to thinking on three good things for the week by Deb Nance of the blog Readerbuzz who lists hers every Sunday on her blog.

The First American Pope

Though my wife and I are no longer Catholic, we are glad to see that the man Pope Francis probably would have picked to succeed him: Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV.

A rare Friday off

I’m off today, a Friday, normally a day I work, so I plan to take advantage of it:

• Reading more of The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. 
• Catching up with the last episodes of the Where is My Mind? podcast hosted by Niall Breslin. I discovered Breslin at the start of the pandemic with a podcast he had called Wake Up/Wind Down, which he then spun off into Where is My Mind? I will miss hearing his voice.
• Maybe reading some poetry and fiction too. I have a poetry book or two and two poetry magazines checked out from the library on the Libby app. I also am on the last few of the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.

Yankees baseball

At the start of the season, with our phone plan, T-Mobile had a deal for MLB.com for free for the season. When I was a kid, I followed baseball some, and only the Yankees. Since then, I’ve only kept up very sporadically, but with “the state of the world” the way it is, I decided why not another distraction? It’s been a good one, with the Yanks doing well to start the year. While they don’t have the best record in baseball, they are at the top of their division, the American League East, with 21 wins and 16 losses. I’ve also been enjoying watching affiliates of the Yankees in minor league, which MLB.com shows too, especially the Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes Barre RailRiders.