Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

My year of 73 concerts

A break from daily prose turns into a break for Christmas and a break for covid

The “goney” or albatross in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” (1851)

The horse race in Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973)

Hermanos Gutiérrez: Gorgeous instrumental electric-guitar duos

Running into a friend at Times Square subway station in December 1984: Andre Braugher (1962-2023)