Be Advised: We have postponed our Winter Luncheon to January 10. We are determined to celebrate our holiday and the secular values which bind our humanist community -- so, please let us know by Friday of this week if you can join us on the tenth. That will be at one o'clock at the Royal East Restaurant, 782 Main St., Cambridge.

Confidently, for the last time, you must RSVP (by email or telephone) and pay at the door. ($21.00 per person).

Please RSVP by calling Tom Ferrick at 617--547-1497 no later than Dec. 31. Remember, it will take place at the Royal East Restaurant, 782 Main St., Cambridge. (Free Parking available around the corner on Windsor, first lot on left). You will pay at the door, $21.00 per person.

This is just the time to ask all our other members and friends to add their names to the Jan. 3 festivity. (It was celebrated by our forebears as the light returning to the earth). We’ll meet at 12:30 pm, dine at one o’clock and have a wideopen discussion starting with the amazing unification of free minded people that is occurring across the country. Guests from other local free thought groups will offer their ideas.

In the meantime, take care of yourself – and let us hear from you,

So, let’s party. HAM (Humanist Association of Massachusetts), is giving way to GBH, (the Greater Boston Humanists). We are establishing a network among all the free-thought groups in our area, each with its own web site and its way of expressing its non-theism. We are being overwhelmed with new friends and new ideas, from the Boston Atheists with their hundreds of adherents, to the Brights, just lately taking hold. In November all these groups participated with the Coalition of Reason in placing ads acclaiming atheism on local T buses. Great publicity. And, what’s more, our community now has Greg Epstein’s book, “Good Without God,” with a positive ideal beyond stark unbelief. A wonderful read.

Our friends at the Royal East Restaurant, 782 Main Street, Cambridge, provide a generous feast and spacious setting as well as free parking nearby. If you are driving down Main St. from Mass Ave, turn right onto Windsor and go one block, turning into the first parking lot on your left. (Follow these directions carefully). Please let us know if you have special dietary needs that the restaurant will meet.

At meal's end, we'll have a "round table" discussion, starting with the two paragraphs opening this letter. If our president, Joe Gerstein, is able to complete essential repairs to his Florida house in time, he’ll lead the discussion; otherwise I’ll fill in. Come ready to speak your mind about the rational state of modern thinking, or the absence thereof.