SUNDAY SKETCH #7 “I Didn’t Know I Was a Bear Person.”

Looking back, I honestly can’t tell you when my connection with bears started. They’ve just always been there.

As a kid, I carried my Winnie the Pooh, read bear stories during those summertime library trips, watched every kind of cartoon I could find, and even created my own Adventures of the Three Little Bears story for a storytelling contest—and somehow walked away with second place. 😂

As I got older, the connection never really disappeared. Even the tattoo I wanted as a teenager was a teddy bear surrounded by the things I loved most—music and instruments. And somewhere along the way, people started telling me I looked like a teddy bear. I thought they were messing with me. Turns out they meant cute and cuddly. 😂

Years later, here I am building Club Mello around a bear.

Maybe there was never one moment when it started.

Maybe I didn’t choose the bear. Maybe the bear chose me. 🐻

Live Life Mello.