Breakfast Club

At a recent Breakfast Club session in Seattle, topics ranged from polyamory to the end of the world (as we know it)

Despite my being a futurist, traditions are important to me. As long as they’re useful.

One useful tradition is a periodic Breakfast Club -- which has been meeting in various Seattle locations since the early 1990’s. A group of us, who probably wouldn’t otherwise see each other, get together to gab about things that are important to us -- personally, professionally, globally, spiritually.

These check-ins have come to mean a lot. Sometimes we have a theme, such as ‘what are your wishes for the new year’ or ‘what’s the flame that’s burning inside you’? Other times, we just see what happens.

The point is to connect with each other about 10 times a year with the intention of connecting our inner lives with the outer. We’ve shared triumphs and tribulations, celebrated anniversaries and milestones, mourned passings. We’ve linked each other with needed resources – most recently a network of cancer care professionals. Another member has found potential interviewees for a documentary film on polyamory.

And our group’s not ingrown. We often host guests, and invite new members. The format’s simple: each person gets an opportunity to ‘check in’ with whatever’s up for them, both inside and in the world.

At a Breakfast Club session in 2003, we had two out-of-town guests--my mother Helen, and Sophia Bracy Harris, an early childhood advocate from Alabama and mentor to Andrea Rabinowitz (r)

Each month we weave a tapestry of insight, humor, reality, love. It’s a good tradition.