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This week's show is only peripherally about the gymnastics activity we call "tumbling" but it's the easiest image to find to represent tumbling online.
This week's show came about when I was listening to neighbors talk about another neighbor which is what neighbors often do. My wife & I & our two dogs stopped to talk to our neighbors while we were on a dog walk which is something we often do. Another neighbor (a neighbor we didn't know) had recently had a fall which resulted in her being moved to a facility where they could take better care of her. It had not been her first fall, & because of her age & living situation (she was in her eighties, & lived alone), her children thought it was best she be more professionally & regularly taken care of. One of the neighbors said, "Oh she took quite a tumble that last time!" which made us all laugh uncomfortably.
This week's show suggested itself to me in that weird uncomfortable moment where three of the four people (with two bored dog's nearby) were all thinking the horrible thought of a woman in her eighties falling & it being described as "quite a tumble." The word tumble itself seemed so inappropriate that I, being me, started thinking about songs using the word "tumble." Luckily I remembered this conversation when I got home & made a note to make a show about tumbling.
This week's show is about tumbling you see & it's happening tonight, midnight to 2am, on KBOO - 90.7fm in town, kboo dot fm everywhere. It should go without saying I hope we all make it through without ourselves having quite an actual, physical tumble.
This week's show came about when I was listening to neighbors talk about another neighbor which is what neighbors often do. My wife & I & our two dogs stopped to talk to our neighbors while we were on a dog walk which is something we often do. Another neighbor (a neighbor we didn't know) had recently had a fall which resulted in her being moved to a facility where they could take better care of her. It had not been her first fall, & because of her age & living situation (she was in her eighties, & lived alone), her children thought it was best she be more professionally & regularly taken care of. One of the neighbors said, "Oh she took quite a tumble that last time!" which made us all laugh uncomfortably.
This week's show suggested itself to me in that weird uncomfortable moment where three of the four people (with two bored dog's nearby) were all thinking the horrible thought of a woman in her eighties falling & it being described as "quite a tumble." The word tumble itself seemed so inappropriate that I, being me, started thinking about songs using the word "tumble." Luckily I remembered this conversation when I got home & made a note to make a show about tumbling.
This week's show is about tumbling you see & it's happening tonight, midnight to 2am, on KBOO - 90.7fm in town, kboo dot fm everywhere. It should go without saying I hope we all make it through without ourselves having quite an actual, physical tumble.
