Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Musicians I’ve seen most: members of The Grateful Dead and Hildegard Lernt Fliegen—and my friend Stefan Strittmatter

My Kelty backpack, which is over 40 years old now

Late nights in Paris in summer 1989

For Keith Jarrett on his 80th birthday, 8 May 2025

Toni Morrison’s “Tar Baby” (1981) and W. E. B. DuBois’s “The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study” (1899)

Don Q drives his golf cart on a “beautiful Plunderland morning"