| Sunday Secrets |
[Saturday
July 5th, 2008
9:33am] |
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http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2008/07/sunday-secrets.html
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.
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Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 12:07 AM
It's interesting - though you tagged this photograph as "I'm ready to love everything" and to me it looks like "I'm ready to lose everything," I wonder if in fact these vastly different phrases would still translate to the same meaning...
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Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:52 AM
I just showed this to my husband and he said "Thank God." It took us 6 months and we felt like failures.
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Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 7:51 PM
Subject: stat counter
I look forward to reading people's secrets every week and it makes me feel less lonely. Especially when I get to the bottom of the page and refresh and re-read stat counter to find that over 2400 people spent the last 4 minutes with ME!
...(152,903,926 - 152,906,332)
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Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:15 AM
When I walk by a black person I'm afraid they will think I am racist if I do OR if I don't look at them.
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Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 12:36 PM
for the record, we minorities don't notice whether you look at us on the street or not. we're thinking about politics, the weather, and what to make for dinner - just like you.
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Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 3:09 AM
Hi Frank,
At 26, my first wrinkles have just started appearing on my forehead. At first I was upset, but then I realized it was due to the expression I make when I am interested or curious.
Now, I hope they only get deeper, because I would hate to loose that sense of wonder. Thanks for posting it so that I could remember how important it is to love something more than my appearance.
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Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 4:35 AM
Being an EMT made me question my faith in god, but my coworkers gave me faith in humanity.
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To: Frank Warren
I was reading PostSecret today and I happened to scroll down to the end of the page, and saw a photo of Kristin - a childhood friend that lived around the block from me in Florida. I did hear when she died, but I was very surprised to see the suicide hotline with Kristin's picture on it.
After researching how the Kristin Brooks Hope Center was founded I had to pass along to Kristin's husband, Reese, that the love he has for her is overwhelming. His devotion to her memory is remarkable, and I just wanted him to know that a friend who knew Kristin a long time ago was proud that she married someone like him. Their child is blessed to have parents like Kristin and Reese.
Thank you for all you do to help people in dark places find their light.
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From: Reese Butler [Founder, Kristin Brooks Hope Center]
The ability and opportunity to connect with one of Kristin's childhood friends was a miracle and a gift from the PostSecret community.
After Kristin's death I desperately tried to reach out to all the people she grew up with. It was important to me that people who did know her learned what happened to her and how they can prevent others from falling to the same fate.
For over 3 years the PostSecret community has helped people learn that they share some of the deepest and darkest secrets and are not alone
Thanks for this miracle.
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From: Frank Warren
Subject: Struggling to meet a July 9th deadline
The Kristin Brooks Hope Center needs your help today.
Become a member of the 99 CLUB. Call Reese directly to arrange for a larger donation 202-669-8500 (yes, that is Reese's direct phone number, please be respectful). You can also make a quick and easy PayPal donation.
All donations are fully tax deductible and 100% of your donation will go directly to HopeLine.
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From: Reese Butler [mailto:reese@hopeline.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:49 AM
Subject: the campaign is working!
Dear Frank,
Over $10,000 in 8 hours and we have over 500 new donors. You must read some of the comments from the PostSecret Community donors. We also have 55 [update: 60] members of the 99 CLUB. That represents a pledge of $275,000(!) [update: $300,000]. I will keep you posted as we make more progress.
Best always,
Reese
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| Free concert July 18th! |
[Thursday
July 3rd, 2008
10:09pm] |
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| Dirt Fest Tickets |
[Thursday
July 3rd, 2008
11:27am] |
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We still have a small handful of presale tickets available for this year's Dirt Fest. Get them now and they're only $20. 70 bands on 5 stages. BMX set up. Indy wrestling. Battle of the Beards competition. All this and more for only $20! Want some? Come get some!
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Yesterday was awesome for two reasons:
1. So you know how usually you make an Arnold Palmer by mixing the lemonade and the iced tea (we usually make sun tea) after both have been made separately? WHAT IF instead of making sun tea and then mixing it with lemonade, you brew the sun tea IN THE LEMONADE? I will tell you: it is incredible. I don't know why I've never done this before.
2. I actually finally received my check for eighteen thousand one hundred fifty dollars and six cents. For some reason, I wanted to eat it. Or bite it. I do this sometimes, biting things that please or interest me. I don't know why. ANYWAY: eighteen thousand dollars! Which will probably go to hardly anything fun, instead going to student loans and the house I live in. Maybe a tattoo. A scooter. New bedroom furniture that isn't made of particle board. That really uncomfortable-looking chair with the bookshelves built into it. THIS PURSE oh my goodness it has a raccoon on it. A yacht. We'll see, I guess.
Also Kyle and I donated blood, and they have the whole thing set up so that the chairs you sit in (they call them "beds" even though they are clearly chairs) face a television which is always, always playing some gigantically horrible movie. Like, I have been donating blood at this place for like four years and I have never leaned back in my bedchair and thought, "Oh, I didn't need to bring a book! They are showing something decent." No, it is "27 Dresses" or "Bringing Down the House" or "Catwoman". No, really, "Catwoman". The point here is maybe I am too cynical and cranky, but what is the deal with people having awful, awful taste in things. "Catwoman" at the blood place! People who like the White Sox! Some kid at work hating "Pan's Labyrinth" because "it didn't have a happy ending"!
I AM CROTCHETY.
I also just learned that if you do a google image search for "baby goat" you see a baby goat being born and also a picture of baby goat meat (ew), but if you search "baby goats" you get an onslaught of adorable, with no visible viscera! Hooray! Oh my god, look at the goats.
And if you haven't seen this already: List of problems solved by MacGyver. "MacGvyer also built a swinging playpen out of hockey sticks, a rope net and rope, and fastened a baby's diaper with duct tape." What a good use of Wikipedia!
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| Sunday Secrets |
[Saturday
June 28th, 2008
8:09pm] |
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http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2008/06/sunday-secrets_28.html
-----Email Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:45 PM
I've started replacing all of the wallpapers of my college's library computers with this image... hopefully someone else will realize they probably mean more to people than they know.
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.
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Subject: RE : Having An Std Changed My Life For The Better Postcard
I just wanted to let the person know that having HIV changed my life, before my diagnosis I was heavily addicted to crack cocaine. Since my diagnosis Ive been clean over 2 years. My life could not be better.
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Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:02 PM
Frank-
Over the past ten years, I lost almost all of my hearing. My friends, who can still hear, say I should let it go and give into the fact that I can't hear the ocean or the rain anymore. I can't even really hear my son, which kills me.
So I mailed this postcard to all my friends who have told me to accept the fact it's gone. I can't let it go. the emails I got in return amazed me. I think they finally get it.
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Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:16 PM
oh.my. what a huge amount of traffic i've had from the sidebar link! just wanted to pass along that since i do run ads for the blogher ad network (i'm also an employee there) i will be donating my ad revenue to hopeline. thanks so much for helping me help others. :)
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Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:55 AM
To the Diversity Trainer --
Walking in those shoes may be be the best training you could have ever experienced.
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Subject: Hopeline Comment
Frank,
I'm 19 years old and I answer calls for Hopeline. Everytime I answer the phones it is a constant reminder of how similar everyone is. Thank you so much for all the information and reminders about hopeline. It is amazing, and I truely feel as if I learn more and more by every call I answer. Never stop promoting Hopeline, it is another way for people to call and release their secrets in a nonjudgemental environment.
Thanks.
~Becca (with permission)
(We thank you Becca.)
Special Hopeline Video
1(800)SUICIDE needs your help. You can become a friend to Hopeline by posting this video on your website/Blog. I will be linking to friends from the HopeLine Blogroll. Thank you for your support of Hopeline.
Help spread this campaign by using this button.
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Subject: thank you
Frank,
This past Friday night I found myself in a black hole of depression and I didn't know how I was going to make it through the night. Not knowing where to turn and feeling like I couldn't stop. I remembered seeing the Hopeline phone number in the front of your book. I talked with someone there for 2 and a half hours and I truly feel that they saved my life.
Thank you for the book, thank Hopeline for being there, and thank the people that send in their postcards so that others know they are not alone with their secrets.
-Casie (with permission)
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Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:59 PM
Yaaaaaaaay Casie's Back!
It's easy to look up to people like celebrities or sports figures, but her honesty and courage accomplished more than any of them just by asking for help. She has inspired me and I hope to inspire others too - someday.
The Kristin Brooks Hope Center
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10:59am] |
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| Friday June 27 in BayCity! Free Art/Music/Poetry event! |
[Wednesday
June 25th, 2008
7:13pm] |
Friday June 27 in BayCity! Free Art/Music/Poetry event!
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June 23rd, 2008
8:03pm] |
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