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Sunday 9/27/2026
A New Logo and a New Website Address!
This week we have a new look for OURS Public Clubhouse & Café's Logo. At its center, people gather around a cup of coffee bursting with shared ideas. A simple, elegant image of the moments from which human connection grows.
As with the name, I wanted the image to feel welcoming and clear. OURS is being created as a place where people can stop in, spend time together, and become part of one another’s everyday lives. “A Place to Belong” says it all.
We'd love to hear what you see in the new design. Does it say connection, collaboration, and creativity to you, with a subtle hint of joy?
We Also Have a New Website Address!
As requested, we have a shorter website address. It's easier to remember and easier to share.
A Word from the OURS Founder
People often ask, “Where did the idea for OURS Public Clubhouse & Café come from?”
It comes from community centers, art houses, social clubs, pubs, cafés, and coffeehouses. It also comes from a simple understanding: great human movements often begin around a table.
People have always needed places to meet, exchange ideas, ask questions, and find their way forward together. Technology connects us across distances, yet many of us long for more connection with the people nearby. As more people grow older and economic pressures divide us, places to gather matter even more.
Throughout history, artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers have found one another over coffee, meals, and conversation. From Renaissance Florence and European salons to the cafés of 1920s Paris and the Beat poets’ gathering places in San Francisco, ideas grew as people connected.
OURS may never inspire a movement, but it can offer the everyday conditions in which friendship, creativity, and new ideas grow: a musician meeting a writer, an older neighbor encouraging a younger artist, or someone arriving alone and finding common ground.
When uncertainty rises, some build walls while others pull up chairs.
OURS is about pulling up another chair. Perhaps the next meaningful idea for our community will begin with a few people sharing a table, much as our earliest ancestors gathered around the warmth of a fire.
Join us at the table! www.OursSonoma.com
REMINDER
You can always connect with the OURS Gang through Meetup and keep up with events and activities at: OURS Public Clubhouse & Café | Meetup
Would you believe that there's actually too much going on behind the scenes to share this week?
So much is brewing at OURS that this week’s newsletter is short and sweet. It’s a little too early to fill you in, but coming up: introductions to our new board members; an update on location, locations, locations; and a peek at the beautiful presentation packages we’re creating for prospective investors and community sponsors.
Plus plans for our October Archetypes Costume Party!
Stay tuned, and have a great week!
