PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. PostSecret, 13345 Copper Ridge Road, Germantown, MD 20874, USA Some are posted at the PostSecret blog, others appeared in books (PostSecret, My Secret, The Secret Lives of Men and Women, and A Lifetime of Secrets), or in an international traveling art exhibit.
Frank Warren is the creator of The PostSecret Project, a collection of highly personal and artfully decorated postcards mailed anonymously from around the world, displaying the soulful secrets we never voice. Since November 2004, Warren has received more than 500,000 postcards, with secrets that run from sexual taboos and criminal activity to confessions of secret beliefs, hidden acts of kindness, shocking habits and fears. PostSecret is a safe and anonymous "place" where people can hear unheard voices and share untold stories. Watch Frank Warren’s TED Talk.
Check out the PostSecret website, be inspired and create your own “share a secret” postcard. You don’t have to mail it.
Don’t have a secret? Well I have one-I love Berger Cookies! As an adult, you’d figure I’d grow out of this overly sweet treat. But noooooo…. The only place you can buy them is in my hometown of Baltimore. Good thing I live in Vermont, but wait…. I just found a recipe for them on-line. Yes!!!
Need some inspiration? Watch Alice Herz Sommer. At age 108, she survived the Holocaust and cancer. Alice lives in a tiny London flat, practicing piano for three hours every day. At 104, she wrote about her life “A Garden of Eden in Hell.” The secret to her long life and optimism, she says, “I look where it is good.”
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