<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Wednesday morning I attended an informal Gotham women\u2019s breakfast on Long Island.</font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font size="4" class="">When I first read the Nancy Schess post as moderator for Fredslist I thought I missed knowing about a scheduled meeting of LI Women.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Not exactly.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">It was an informal get together \u2014 no rules, no format \u2014 that allowed people to attendees to let their hair down (if they so choose).</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">I realized that when I RSVP\u2019d.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">I was the only attendee of my agenda but there was almost another.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">We gathered at an unusual location for Gotham, the Hicksville Diner. </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">By the way, we enjoyed excellent service.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">One attendee \u2014 despite my attending many meeting of LI and LI Women, some joint with my \u201chome\u201d LI Legal group, shared that the breakfast offered an opportunity to know me better. A takeaway that this \u201csharing\u201d offers \u2014 look at a few more one on one other smaller 2-4, maybe five person meets where you get to know others in the tribe a bit better. Sometimes you may think a person knows you but for whatever reason the registration level perhaps fell short of mutuality. Most likely just one or the other needed to take another step but neither quite realized it.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">But even beyond the Gotham angle, but still Gotham remained the only reason I found myself at a diner in Hicksville that morning, a businessman I know through politics and got to know a but better through advising a political figure, sat down at an adjoining booth; we noticed each other and exchange pleasantries while I remained with my Gotham Party. Next thing I know, he texts me about an event he organized next week featuring appearances by both Nassau and Suffolk County Execs. </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">After our Gotham gathering finally breaks up, I go over as he is now joined by a guest. He introduces us. We connect. And expect this correspondent to add more to this account at a later date.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">So another benefit of Gotham, it puts you in the right place even when you expect it not at all.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Thank you Gotham!</font></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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