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Morning Frank.

I am a high school visual arts teacher in SC. For the last 10 years I’ve been a Post Secret project with my photo students. We start the lesson by reading an excerpt that you wrote about how the project first began then move onto a Ted talk that you gave followed by the All American rejects music video and finish with a video of a colorguard in Florida that competed to the theme of PostSecrets.

The students are then prompted with three different prompts for them to recall things that have bothered them or burdened their heart either over the last year, week or even days. They write their secrets on sticky notes. The students then have the opportunity to put their written secrets in a box or keep them to themselves. Most students choose to release the burden of these secrets that have weighing on their hearts and drop them in the box.

The actual art project is for students to create three photographs based off of either their own secrets or secrets that they pull from the box. The photograph has to incorporate text in one way shape or form from the secret. If they chose to drop their secrets in the box than they will pull out secrets of someone else. Over the last 10 years this project has been such a therapeutic one for these high school students especially now dealing with mental illnesses. They reveal very deep issues from rape to fears about the “next step”, to things they have heard or witnesses but never shared. After the project is complete the students all display the photographs with text that they have completed. It is that much more therapeutic for students to see their secrets created by others as one final release. At the very conclusion we burn the box and over the years students have told me this has been an amazing experience for them and they are thankful for it.

Administration has asked me to not do this project anymore.

Hi Frank.
Thank you so much! My students just got really really excited when they saw the PostSecret book that came in the mail. You made their day and mine too thank you

10 personalized books, shirts, and surprises, have gone out in the mail today for randomly selected Patreons. Thanks for staying on the ride and making it all possible.

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The Museum of Us in San Diego open now!

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[friendly reminder: PostSecret only has two rules; no glitter, no blood.]

Through Patreon, the Postsecret Community was there to support IMAlive during this critical time. The following message arrived in my inbox today from Reese Butler, the founder of IMAlive.

What a gift to get on Christmas Day!

This was the critical month. We had planned to permanently close IMAlive. Meaning the board decided If no funding could be found or established there was no choice but to give the program away or shut it down. The support from you and the PostSecret Patreons proved to the board that support was there.

Merry Christmas to you, Jan and Hailey and the whole PostSecret community.

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“After years of being too ashamed to get help, I attempted suicide. (I’m a mental health worker.) Getting help was the best choice ever!”
[written on back]

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I drive a school bus. In the mornings when I approach a stop with a parent smiling or loving their child, I drive even more slowly so they have a few more seconds together. It goes so fast.
[written on back]

After years of porn – and then – finally – a real live woman who loves me – No comparison!
[written on back]

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Dear PostSecret,
To the person who feels horrible for telling their child there is no Santa. My son just wrote Santa last night asking for that special present. And I didn’t have the heart to tell him that “Santa’s” back injury has kept her from waiting tables these past two weeks, and with no child support check these past 7 months, all the other bills are adding up too. And the local charity is saying the application deadline is past, and they can’t guarantee anything specific. My secret: I wish Santa Claus was real, so on Christmas, no child would have to go without, and no parent would have to feel like they failed their child.
-Amber

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“I went to the library to find books on my schizophreniform . . . I found “The World of PostSecret” instead. My world just changed directions.”

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Hi Sheva,
I am sorry to hear about your Grandma’s condition. I hope she had a full life. I know she has a caring Granddaughter. Here is the post I shared about interviewing my father.
-Frank

I was thrilled with the 1,000+ thoughtful questions shared with me, from the delightful to the profound. I read all of them and picked 25 to ask my dad. At a family dinner the night before our day of tandem paragliding, as an experiment, I peppered three into our conversation. . . it didn’t go well.

Like many families, ours was far from perfect, with divorce and estrangement being a part of it. So when other family members began responding to some of my father’s answers, long-buried feelings and some judgement turned the interview sour. Because of that learning experience, I changed some of my questions and gained three insights about interviewing parents.

• Avoid questions about regrets or mistakes and start with questions that include the word “favorite”, like, What’s your favorite decade and why?
• Keep the questions open-ended and let answers lead to other answers. Aim for a flowing conversation, not an interview.
• Really listen.

On the two hour drive to the gliderport the next day, it was just my father and me in the car. I told him how much it meant to me to go through these questions and get to know him better. He was game so I cautiously started. He passed on some of the questions, but then really began to share a lot with me, including a secret. He even started asking me some of the same questions too! The spirit in the car was supportive and generous, with some heartfelt laughs as we used questions as prompts for our once-in-a-lifetime conversation.

Even though we were unable to do any gliding because of wind conditions, I’ll never forget that day and the new appreciation I had for me father. I can’t reveal the secret he told me but another part of our conversation shocked me. I asked this gentle and caring man, what is the most common misconception people have about you? He said. When I was ten-years-old, my mom spanked me for the last time. I don’t think you know how stubborn I was then but you do know how stern your Grandmother could be. I remember through my tears and pain looking at my mother and saying, with spite, I like getting spanked!

Thanks to everyone who contributed questions to my original post and I invite you all to use these questions to get to know your fathers (or mothers) better.

Here are the 25 questions that guided our conversation with some additional resources at the bottom.

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Can you tell me about your best friend when you were a kid and one of your adventures.

What is the oldest story you know about our ancestors?

Can you describe a favorite memory about a family member?

If this was to be our very last conversation, is there anything you would want to say to me?

Do you have a favorite snack, song, television show, recipe, comedy?

What is your first memory?

What event in your life changed you the most?

Did you ever get into trouble as a kid? What happened?

If there was a biography of you, how would you want to be described?

What choice are you thankful that you did not make?

What is the best advice you remember from your father?

Is there anything you wish you had said to someone but didn’t have the chance?

Can you teach me something?

What is something you would like me to ask you?”

What do you wish you would have spent less time worrying about?

What is something you deliberately did not tell me as a child and why?

What is the best part of your day? What makes you feel most alive?

What is the last thing you changed your mind about?

What things helped you get through a difficult time in your life?

Over the course of your life what trip or place was most special? Why?

What would you like to re-experience again because you did not appreciate it enough the first time?

Can you tell me something about yourself that I don’t know that you think would surprise, shock or delight me?

What habits served you the most through life?

What is the best mistake you have made, and why?

What do you hope my siblings and I have learned from you?

How are you doing right now? Is there anything on your mind right now that you’d like to talk about?

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(When my father visits again, I’ll be sure to have his favorite comedy and snack ready.)

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