About
The picture up there is a Mount Horeb summer — Ferris wheel, the swinging ride mid-arc, a ball game in play. That's the Frolic. That's our village.
We're the Optimist Club of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. Chartered in the fall of 1995, part of the Southern Wisconsin District. Friends of youth. Neighbors who believe in our home.
Optimism as a practice
Optimism, the way we mean it, isn't a mood. It's a daily practice.
It's easy to talk about; and a little harder to follow through, month after month, year after year. It means choosing to invest in kids without regard to the news of the day. It means reading a scholarship application and thinking, I want to help this one through. It means believing — out loud, in public — that a humble village's best days are the ones still ahead.
Most days it doesn't feel like something special. Pancakes at the high school. Burger shifts at the Frolic. A Kid Zone at the Norsk Fourth of July celebration. The quiet pride of watching a student get named Someone You Should Know. It adds up. And we show up for it.
The Creed
The Optimist Creed is older than the club — Optimists have been saying something like it for more than a hundred years. It starts like this:
Promise yourself —
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
It goes on for ten promises. Most of us don't have it memorized. But after a while, you notice it showing up in your life every day.
Come say hello
If this sounds like the kind of place you'd like to stand, come say hello. We'd be glad to meet you.
Say hello