Club Cougar
I'm a little scared to post this, but I'm also trying to be more brave.
Club Cougar
When I was in high school, we had a year-end performing arts showcase called Club Cougar.
Our mascot was a cougar, and therefore the name of the club followed. No, it was not a club for active older women. (Although... not a bad idea.)
Twenty years
For 20 years now I've had this idea, this desire, in the back of my head: to create my own version. I just never thought it would actually be possible.
Well, now I have a platform on Instagram, and I've been getting ready to shift my energy over to YouTube to build a platform there as well.
But every time I've tried, I've felt this resistance. This hesitation. I felt locked up, like I wasn't able to build what I wanted to build, for so many different reasons. I've been spinning my wheels on my ideas.
The question
Then I had a conversation with an old friend. She asked me why I wasn't just going for the things I sincerely wanted, while I kept putting all this stuff in between me and my goals.
I started to explain all of my reasons. She just told me:
"You're hedging. You care about this. Why not just... do it?"
That question sat in the back of my head for weeks. Today it turned into a video.
My version
Great coffee and a good book to start the day. Then a day full of fun projects to fill your time, until you come back tomorrow.
A bookstore, a coffee shop, a makerspace and a stage under one roof. A place where theater kids, makers, readers and night owls can come in, make something and put on a show.
Maybe
I'm gonna see if maybe it might be possible.