Today’s edition of the With A Shout newsletter was a lot of hurry-up and wait. The base draft of the newsletter was ready this morning, but waiting on a follow-up or two and then scheduling. Today is day 60, and we have been working on finishing today’s newsletter and working on tomorrow. With two solid months under the belt, today we are moving production to the day before publishing, and we will start publishing the newsletter early in the AM. To accomplish this, we need the newsletter ready to go the night before. Another fantastic lesson learned in this crazy publishing schedule we work on now.

Before you see the newsletter on Monday morning, today is filled with; legal/drum battles, wildlife photos, expect fear lessons, building nature, the sounds of autumn, and a spotlight on a new song by Manchester Orchestra. Happy Sunday!

We are ashamed at how much we can’t look away these days from what could end up being a terrible Lifetime movie, AKA The Smell of 2022 Musk. Always looking for unusual angles to current stories, Reuters threw us this one. Rick Tornetta, and it’sho previously played drums for a metal band called “Dawn of Correction” is in litigation with Musk and Tesla for a shareholder derivative lawsuit. We won’t dive too deep into the jargon, it’s the subplots that have us on the edge of our seats.

How can “The Elon” possibly put more on his plate? Oh and by the way, “Dawn of Correction.” That will be the book Musk in 2022. Seriously, it writes itself!?

The Insider has an article called The best wildlife photos of 2022. You have to see to believe.

Photo Credits:
Bees: Karine Aigner
Snake: Fernando Constantino Martínez Belmar
Bears: Dmitry Kokh

[New Section on Mindfulness]

The late Susan Jeffers coined the phrase and wrote the book called Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway. Jeffers wrote this book in the 80s and a few of us read it in the 90s and read it more than once. The message, you cannot get away from fear, better to find a way to dance with it, if it’s going to be around anyway. Rick Warren wrote A Purpose Driven Life, and he also writes a daily email, today he’s talking about fear. Similar to Jeffers, Rick talks about fear and provides a few ideas on how to move through it. Here are a few steps to consider:

If you are working with a team who is planning a big launch of a newsletter and set the goal of publishing every day for one hundred days, this is the pep talk we need as we prepare to publish newsletter #60 today!

New York - Architecture - Nature, three ideas that don’t usually go together. Architect Jeanne Gang found a way and, in it, became the WSJ 2022 Architecture Innovator. In the interview with WSJ, Gang said The Pantheon was her favorite design/built structure but laughed when she mentioned that the original designer of The Pantheon was executed for getting into an argument with the client (tough crowd).

Gang also likes the ocean, collects bird nests (found on the ground, not in trees), and uses nature to inspire design. When asked what made her want to be an architect, she mentioned a Community Building in her hometown that was the center of life and relationships. She always carries pencils and scissors around in case an idea hits. She is interested in working with nature as opposed to extracting from it.

When Gang thinks about changing the world, she thinks about:

In a quiet world where nature is the soundtrack, we can get on board with that.

[Music Notes]

Kerrang gave us a list of Autumn Albums to listen to. Never before have we been entertained by a list of albums and bands we’ve never heard of. Check out the list as the days get shorter and colder. Here is the list of best bands or album names from a band we haven’t heard of but look forward to listening to this fall:

With A Shout has been late to the Manchester Orchestra party. We may have heard a song or two over the years but could never connect the music with the band. Recently the band released a new song, No Rule, which got our attention. A beautiful piece, and with that, we dug a little deeper. Kerrang did a story on Manchester Orchestra; this gave us an excellent primer on the band.

Formed in Atlanta in the early 2000s by Andy Hull, Manchester Orchestra has released five albums over the last two decades. “Million Masks Of God” was released in 2021 and took listeners on a journey of redemption and solitude. The album title is taken from a GK Chesterton poem; Hull describes it as looking for God when you are young and the anger you create when you feel like you can’t find God. Then realize God is in the faces you see. This insight on when to put music and words is a great Sunday vibe.

[More New Stuff]

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A New Music Sunday!

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

Thank you for spending a few minutes with us!

With A Shout Team