Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

My seventy-third concert this year, and my first Beethoven symphony ever

Finishing “Moby Dick” on my fourth try

Durham Cathedral and English and Syrian music in Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak” (2023)

Donald Trump has only recently been frequently called a “fascist"

The Trump succession that was on a T-shirt during Donald Trump’s presidency

Jim Gordon, the drummer on Tom Waits’s “The Heart of Saturday Night” (1974)