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It's Sunday, which means it's PostSecret day. Some people read the comics first from the Sunday paper. Others reach for the sports section or the obituaries. The first thing I do on Sunday mornings, when I fire up the computer, is click on PostSecret. This week, as always, there are postcards that are funny and shocking and sad and bizarre. Then there are the ones that are informative.


Below this what-appears-to-be-odd admission is an email Frank Warren received, I'm assuming today, about this compulsion, known as "Body Integrity Identity Disorder." Here's a screen shot of the email.


Here's the link to the ABC news piece that it mentions. I have to say, it's a fascinating read.

After reading this PostSecret and the news article, it certainly makes you wonder about the mind, the spirit, the body, and the connections and disconnections between them. It also reconfirms for me that there are many things about the mind, spirit, body, and their connections that we don't fully understand and, more importantly, that we ought not to legislate. Legislation is the final bastion and purview of tiny, reactionary, frightened minds.

Day 19: Note to My Siblings

Janeen and Phillip,

Check out today's PostSecrets (the link is over on the right under, what else, "Links.") See if you can figure out which PostSecret made me laugh out loud. I didn't send it in, but we certainly have room in our family to do so!

Love,

Janet

P.S. If you can figure out which one it is, send me an email.


UPDATE: 11/29/06 Here's the PostSecret that absolutely made me guffaw. Unless you're my siblings, I think this is a "you had to be there" thing.



Second runner up was a PostSecret that said, "I drive like a shithead!" So true, so true, so true.

Day 5: PostSecret

In the spirit of PostSecret, I give you this.



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