But I wanted you to know the impact that it had on him. What a poignant and significant way to start our conference. Your powerful message resonated with our crowd, most of whom are involved in mental health service delivery in Texas. Thank you for reminding us to take a moment to reflect on the power of a secret to find ways to connect more deeply with each other. Regardless of where we are in life, your words call on us to have the courage to both speak out when we need to and to be more attuned listeners when it comes to our professional and personal relationships.
Thank you again for your message and for sharing your personal story with us. Or maybe some find solace in the idea that no matter how meaningless life can feel sometimes, we can always find purpose in reducing suffering. Perhaps a young person read this and clung on to the hope that the pain they are working through today could be the source of a gift that later in life offers help and healing to others. Read More. So when the project got really popular, I wanted to do something good with that popularity and with that awareness, and I knew SUICIDE very well and the good work they did, so it was a natural match for me.
I get about 1, a week, and from that I select Once I have that selection I arrange them in a way where I try and tell a story, or I compose a song. So I think by their very nature most secrets are kind of heavy, so I like to lighten that also with a composition that always includes something optimistic or hopeful. I see the postcards as works of art more, and so seeing them from that perspective, I see the truthfulness of the cards as having multiple layers.
But by the time you posted it it was false. One of the themes that occurs again and again in this project is that there are two kinds of secrets: the secrets that we hide from other people and the ones that we keep from ourselves. So I think we expect a lot from our memoirs — maybe too much — and I think that might be changing slowly. I know with PostSecret, I think of the project as being very inspirational, and I think one of the things that draws people to the books and to the Web site is that sort of raw authenticity.
All that creative content at some point has to go through like a big conference table with a bunch of white guys sitting around and making decisions by demographics and marketability. And I think that lost in that sometimes is that sense of realness, like the punk rock part of it that has a real rawness. With PostSecret I think one of the things people respond to is they feel that authenticity. I show images of postcards that were censored out of the book by the publisher — the secret secrets.
And also what I do is talk a little bit about a secret I carried in my own life for most of my life, something that happened to me in elementary school. And in my talks I talk about, you know, my personal journey in facing a part of my own life that I was hiding from. But there are some issues that we have to be careful with.
I feel re-energized and handfuls of secrets arrived over the past week. Multiple people asked me two questions this week. Patreon is a way that supporters can connect and support their favorite creators and communities. Before Patreon, creators had to rely on advertisers or other less organic support.
Sure, there is a one time donation option. Lastly, and most importantly, if you have 40 cents, you can mail a secret on a postcard. Thanks again for making me feel appreciated, I appreciate each of you.
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