Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The butterfly effect and the carbon footprint as vivid everyday images

The Grateful Dead playing “Uncle John’s Band” in May 1991, and a memory of a show the night before

Ron Carter’s 86th birthday and the three times I have seen him live

“that that that” and “had had had” in James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” (1939)

“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, by Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023), and “Ohio”, by Neil Young: Songs responding to public events

August Spies, the eight-hour workday, the Haymarket Affair, and International Workers’ Day