Goals

It's well-known to those that are acquainted with us, that the Edwards family loves to sing together.  You could say that we come by this naturally - Mom and Dad met in college choir, and the rest is history.  All growing up, we did musical numbers in church, sang in school choirs, and on every family trip, you could bet on there being a version of "White Coral Bells" sung in a round.  We can't help it, we just love to sing.

I for one have always felt that it went a lot deeper than just singing as a family. More like a love of singing was deep in my DNA.  The Edwards surname originated along the border of England and Wales, and it's also well-known that the people of Wales love to sing.  So although I have no historical proof, my own feeling has always been that it's the Welsh in me.  And that singing is something that stays with a  person of Welsh ancestry, no matter the years or the miles removed from Wales.

This was kind of confirmed for me last night, while I was at the Tabernacle Choir concert.  The special guest was a famous Welsh opera singer, Katherine Jenkins.  At one point in the program, she talked about singing and being from Wales, and then asked for a show of hands of Choir members of Welsh ancestry.  More than half of the hands shot up.  Then she sang a beloved Welsh patriotic hymn, Cymru Fach, which loosely translated means "Dearest Wales".  And I swear - I felt homesick.  So homesick that I could have jumped out of my seat then and there and booked a flight to Cardiff.  Now I ask, how is it that someone can be homesick for somewhere they've never been? The only thing I can think is that it's like I said - it's in their DNA.