Name: HumanLight Celebration
Start: 2025-12-20T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-20T21:09:00-05:00

This is a family friendly event so come have informal fun around the Winter Solstice. Light a friendly candle in the hope of making the world a more peaceful and better place. Converse with a fellow freethinker. This is a modern, Human-centered "holiday" celebration is sponsored by the WASH MD chapter. Contact Gary Berg-Cross at gbergcross@gmail.com.

While the event is free and open to everyone we'd like to know who plans on coming so contact one of us so that we make proper arrangements. This is planned as family friendly and we are looking forward to a time to chat, eat and chill out in a warm way.
We will have:

* a rolling pot luck "dinner" (bring what you like bur something that you will enjoy.
* Contact Gary to inform him of what you will bring. There is a Google doc link posted to keep track of items at [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a_Xx2F20I6vwwoDHcDeKVAv-EQQD63lj3IAFI0yuc1c/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a_Xx2F20I6vwwoDHcDeKVAv-EQQD63lj3IAFI0yuc1c/edit?usp=sharing) .
* Candle lighting for Reason, Compassion, and Hope….and maybe a toast for Humanity
* And we have our annual free raffle (probably around 7-8) complements of Mary and Fred Edwords. Everyone gets a ticket and will get something with first called getting the item of their choice.

Again, this is a free and relatively informal, ritual-free secular celebration near the winter solstice.

Background if Humanlight is New to You

Humanlight a secular holiday that celebrates Reason, Compassion, and Hope -- and brings people together to recognize the passing of one year as we look forward to a new one.Established by the New Jersey Humanist Network in 2001 HumanLight provides a specifically Humanist celebration with a sense of belonging that families and friends can enjoy near Christmas and the northern Hemisphere's winter solstice as a celebration of "a Humanist's vision of a good future."

It’s an event to Illuminating Humanism's Positive Secular Vision that the HumanLight organization promotes to “illuminate Humanism's positive secular vision” and as the AHA said in a 2009 announcement – “affirm the positive values of humanism during the time period of the “traditional” winter holidays.” It’s just a small, fun step towards a new tradition and something to make this December a little bit fuller time for non-believer.

Gary Berg-Cross
Potomac, MD
240-426-0770

Clyde Donovan

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