Shout! (an official message from The Piano Instructor)

"Makes me want to holler how they do my life..."

"With their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns..."

"We'd rather die on our feet than keep livin' on our knees..."

"Peace is more than the absence of war..."

"A great big stone wall
Stands there ahead of me
But I've got my pride
And I'll move on aside
And keep on pushin'"

Name your protest song.

And then shout it.

If you don't know one, write it.

This is the time.

If you've been struggling to figure out WHAT even to do because good golly like at THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, do this.

Sing.

Shout.

Ok, Tina, but that's not going to stop the *gestures to the world*.

Nope.

No, it will not.

But:
First, you gotta get it outta you, and one of the best ways is to sing it out. Yell it out. Shout it out. Bang it out on a drum. Don't have one? There was a whole Tony award winning musical using every day around the house stuff-turned-into-instruments. Grab a little garbage can and a bamboo spoon and get tah poundin'.

Second, this action will allow you to send the call out for those to join you. The vibrations are real--all sound waves are longitudinal waves, and they affect the physical body, and backed by real intention, well, you know that goose-bumply feeling you get when the right song clicks with you?

You'd be the one generating that feeling for others with your song, and when you light the lantern for others, you light the way for yourself.

Ugh, so what if I mixed metaphors right there? You get it.

Sing the song. Chant the chant.

Use your voice. Even if it shakes.

Especially if it shakes.

ESPECIALLY if it shakes.

Sing.

Shout.

Bad Bunny's performance at the Super Bowl is a STATEMENT, especially now. Do you feel why?

That. Do that, in your bathroom (also with great acoustics).

Sing in the privacy of your own home the feelings that have come up.

Chant in the enclosure of your vehicle because the acoustics are usually fantastic and you can really get it all out in there.

This is doing something.

Don't remain silent.

Shout.