October is Wriggle and Rhyme’s birthday month. We’re turning 9 … can you believe it?
And of course, when there’s a birthday … there’s a celebration, often a cake and usually we SING to the birthday boy / girl! And this got me thinking, why do we sing at birthdays?
If you think about it, we usually only spontaneously sing together at a gathering of some kind – whether it’s a wedding, a funeral, a church meeting, sports match etc. Often the singing is there to demonstrate the unity of our purpose as a group. I know that seems a bit deep for a birthday party, but I think there’s something to it – singing demonstrates to the birthday boy / girl that we are deeply united in our purpose to celebrate with them. So much so, that we sing!
I’m sure there must be deeper cultural or anthropological meanings that I could dig up, as to how singing in groups came about, but for now, I just LOVE that we sing at birthday parties.
Singing is such a joyful and visible expression of the ties that bind us! So, I hope that lots of our Wriggle and Rhyme family will sing happy birthday to us this month. If, for no other reason, than WE LOVE TO HEAR YOU SING!
