We are built to be sound-makers. Our sounds in infancy are our very first survival mechanism. We soon add other natural sounds to those first ones as we begin to explore our internal world and mimic the world around us. These natural utterances are repeated through lifetimes when they are honored in the home culture. Sadly, that is not often the case in Western cultures. Those of us whose voices were put down in school, home or elsewhere because they were “off-key,” harsh or
