Voice

What is the reality of the need for children to gain access to their own voices?
What is the role of those around children to create spaces for those voices? 
How does the emergence of this voice tie into learning?
Do we ourselves know what is "our own voice"?
Who are we speaking to?
Who is doing our speaking?
Where's the gap between the others who speak for us and the "I" who speaks?
Constructs.
Bonfires.
Speech envisioned as a burning construct.
"A bonfire can be defined as any structure to burn until destroyed.  The successful prediction of the behavior of  any particular bonfire is a matter of experience..."  
                     - David Clough, Engineers of the Imagination
Voice, on the other hand can be like...
a look upon wind through trees
a glance of a whisper of acceptance of another's  goofy giggle
the acknowledgment of a (seemingly) silent  seeking of help
the lick of a bonfire flame upon a night's crisp stillness, warming senses, second-guesses, shapes and souls