Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Weaknesses for the sake of the despicable in “Great Expectations” (1861) and in my own life

Music from the Alex Sipiagin Quartet at the Bird’s Eye, plus a marriage proposal (and some Taylor Swift)

Ed Yong’s “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us" (2022)

The sound of Taylor Swift’s early and recent albums

"He prophets most who bilks the best” (“Finnegans Wake”, 305.1-2)

After The Grateful Dead broke out “All Along the Watchtower” at Berkeley’s Greek Theater in June 1987