Were to a teenage girl that I had known
for years, who asked me “Why don't the boys like me?”
“Darling, you're cute, you're smart.
And you have the voice of a crow”.
Seriously, the ONE THING that one can
change without surgery or therapy is the speaking voice. For fuck's
sake I grew up in what most folks would call East Texas. I don't have
the flat nasality of the native accent. I usually explain my accent
as being brought upon by a younger brother with a hearing inpedimant,
and it being easier to lip-read. Carrying as I do a beard something
between Santa Claus and Billy Gibbons, I can no longer use that
excuse, but I swear by the dear virgin mary and her seven dwarves
that when I was in hospital the nurses called each other in to hear
my voice, and when I'vd had to go to government offices I've been
held there so that the co-workers could hear my voice. I quit doing
radio 35 years ago.
It ain't hard to have a pleasant voice.
Just pay attention. Read to your kids, and do the voices. Slow
down, and make the feelings come through. The human voice is the
most sensitive musical instument, and it'a a shame to see it abused
or neglected.
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