Monday, October 02, 2006

Secrets

I'm taken with the Post Secret Website. The concept is this: people mail in their deepest, darkest, and sometime brightest secrets written on a concept post-card (usually handmade) and once a week a new batch is posted online. (Warning, they are not for the faint of heart--some are crass, others lewd, and others are just plain heartbreaking.) The secrets are startling but so human. They make me think about my own secrets--those things I never mention. No, I'm not going to reveal them here, but I've toyed with the idea of sending in my own post-cards. Here are some of this weeks post cards.








Here's how to contribute your own secret (as copied from the Post Secret Blog).

You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.

Create your 4-by-6-inch postcards out of any mailable material. If you want to share two or more secrets, use multiple postcards. Put your complete secret and image on one side of the postcard.

Tips:
Be brief - the fewer words used the better.
Be legible - use big, clear and bold lettering.
Be creative - let the postcard be your canvas.

Mail your secrets, or other correspondence, to:

PostSecret
13345 Copper Ridge Road
Germantown, Maryland
USA 20874-3454

Please consider sharing a follow-up story about how mailing in a secret, or reading someone else's, made a difference in your life.
(I apologize in advance for being unable to reply.)



2 comments:

Karen said...

I've been reading postsecert faithfully for over a year now. I've thought about sending in a postcard but haven't yet. Maybe someday.

Navy Blue Cardigan said...

I think it would be cathartic to send one in and sometimes, when I can't sleep at night, I lay there and think of various secrets I might send in.