A full year of reading, writing, design, and music has ended. Over the next few weeks in September, we will pull up random posts from the first year and re-post with commentary on the originals. We will take the rest of that time to evaluate the good, the bad, and the ugly and return on October 1, refreshed and ready for Vol. #2, Issue #1. Thanks for spending time with us this year.

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365 days, over 500,000 published words, and many 11:59 PM deadline dances over the last year. On September 15, 2022, I decided to launch a Substack without many expectations and write and publish every day for 100 days. I'm still rolling…

Anger is for the young; the title of that first piece will become ironic for all the wrong reasons based on this week's developments. 

My friend, community leader, journalist, and media hero published the last issue of the newspaper he started in 1994 in Omaha, NE. My final issue of The Reader arrived by mail… today. I have written about John throughout the year, and a celebration of following dreams and the longevity of those dreams is coming to a bittersweet end.

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In a TEDTalk, Shantell Martin tells us how she used art to find herself. She talks about the changes that removed the anger from her art; it forced her to find the real artist within. Growing up in England, Martin experienced a prejudice that encouraged her to explore other places, and she wound up in Japan for several years. In Japan, she was just another outsider, and as her art grew, she took the next bold step to move to NYC. In NYC, she became anonymous, as most people in New York are, and this forced Martin to dive deeper into her art and find another part of it. Shantell Martin tells us to pick up our pens and see where (the art) can take us. Listen to her inspiring story here.

Smithsonian Magazine highlights a tool that will show you what the planet looked like millions of years ago. Pick a place and a time, and the interactive globe will go into motion, showing you where the place would have been. Several other media outlets picked up the story and had interesting experiences with the tool. Michele Debczak from Mental Floss played around with it, and NYC was a small island off the southern hemisphere five million years ago. There you go, do your homework!

Blink 182 has reformed, is getting ready to release a new album, and has been on a new world tour this year, scheduled through 2025. We've reported much of this activity throughout our first year, so why not show another tease to end our first year.

Love And Anger - Kate Bush.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us. Here’s one for the road!

With A Shout newsletter is written by Johnny Christian with the support of a thousand idea bits and the help of many people.

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