Hegwein Family Blog

The Singing Swimmer or the Swimming Singer?

I would like to congratulate Natalie for her superb performance on Wednesday evening at Southside Elementary. It was a sweet success for her. She propelled herself to the plateau of Beverly Sills or Maria Callas and easily "outshone" her partner Natalie Olson with excellent stage presence, acting and singing. Their duet "What Dreams are Made Of" was refreshingly executed with great confidence. It was a real renaissance in youth performance. Natalie's presentation was as smooth and effortless as her 50 meter breaststroke at the Y. Karl and Natalie seem to stimulate each other to always perform at their best in their respective sport. They seem to have the drive, ambition and skill inherited from Mom and Pa, who were both also excellent swimmers. Of course, all results lead unfailingly to Oma (Ann) - who motivated Peter [also Thomas and Jennifer] to be super swimmers. In the art of faultless singing neither Oma nor I can take credit. So once more, it was a nice performance and the applause was evidence of that success. Keep that pace up.

Opa

PS: The reason for the writing delay was my inability to get that far in the mysterious world of computers.