Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Three part songs with themes and variations: Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” (1969) and Taylor Swift’s “The Best Day” (2008) and “Never Grow Up” (2010)

“Going Slow” with the Roberto Bossard band at the Bird’s Eye in Basel, 7 March 2024

My FC Basel – AC Fiorentina souvenir scarf

“Purple with ill-smelling dye”: The river in Coketown in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854)

Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson: Sixth cousins thrice removed

“Some sort of witty retort”: Mr. Stevens and possible autism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Remains of the Day” (1989)