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Things I Do #6: I touch bricks

By Matthew Dicks | April 14, 2017 |

Last night I performed in a club in Lewiston, Maine constructed in large part of brick. Whenever I find myself adjacent to a brick wall, I reach out and touch a brick, knowing that a bricklayer once placed this brick, and all the rest around it, into the wall. Unlike sheet rock or plaster or…

Design yourself

By Matthew Dicks | August 16, 2012 |

NPR’s Robert Krulwich delivered a commencement address at Maine’s College of the Atlantic that I liked a lot. In all honestly, his delivery isn’t great. His head is down a great deal of the time, and his posture leaves something to be desired, but the words are fantastic, so click play and then go do…