I don't know if any of you are familiar with PostSecret which is a project that was started a few years ago by a man named Frank Warren. It is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. ETSU actually hosted a PostSecret event tonight in the Culp Center. If you have never heard of PostSecret i highly recommend you check it out.
PostSecret is a word created from the merging of the word postcard or post (postal) and the word secret. The word PostSecret actually refers to the physical postcard that is sent in as well as the secret that it communicates. It has both meanings simultaneously.
What it means to storytelling: Each and every PostSecret tells a story. These stories are often very short, some only just a few words long, but they communicate volumes of meaning. PostSecret connects people in a deep and meaningful way, and I believe it is because we all have a story and we all want to be heard, understood, felt, thought of, and loved. Story can help us to do that and the PostSecret project has done such a wonderful job of allowing every person to tell their secret story.
Please take the time to check out the PostSecret website and blog and if you like it there are 5 books of PostSecrets that have been published. I would also encourage you to participate, write in a secret, free yourself of it. See the links below:
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
http://www.postsecretcommunity.com/
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