Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"A man walks out of a shop, notice he doesn't die": Roy McFarlane's "Rashan Charles, 2017" and Oscar Grant in "Fruitvale Station"

The clichéd Casaubons in "The Chair"

The oldest musicians I've heard live: Hank Jones, Joe Haider, and Heinz von Herrmann

The rhetoric of "tribes" in President Biden's speech on the Kabul airport bombings

"But close, the painting knows him" (Roy McFarlane); "step inside a Rothko painting" (Nina Mingya Powles)

Listening to The Rolling Stones as a child and a teen in the 60s and 70s